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From: TibetanMonkey, Originator of the Banana Kung-Fu on 8 Apr 2010 12:35
On Apr 8, 9:15 am, SMS <scharf.ste...(a)geemail.com> wrote:
> On 08/04/10 7:51 AM, Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote:
>
> > On 2010-04-08, SMS<scharf.ste...(a)geemail.com> wrote:
> >> "http://www.bicycling.com/topbikefriendlycities/home.html"
>
> > I was surprised* my home town (Grand Rapids, MI) made the list. I mean,
> > yeah, I used to ride a lot, but there was no real riding scene that I was
> > ever aware of, and the terrain isn't exactly flat, especially getting in
> > and out of downtown.
>
> > The coverage was pretty thin, though. I would have liked to see more links
> > to local advocacy groups and bike maps, not just peoples'"favorite rides".
>
> > [*] Pleasantly so
>
> They even admit that they tried for geographic diversity in the list
> rather than listing the actual top 50 cities. San Jose didn't make the
> list, even though it's very bicycle friendly. Silicon Valley is composed
> of a bunch of small cities under 100K population, many of which are very
> bicycle friendly (Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara) and
> some of which are bicycle unfriendly (Cupertino, Milpitas).

If these are the best 50, I don't want to see the worst. Key West is
pretty good, but it's such a small location. They don't mean a thing
until all the bike paths in America lead somewhere.

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