Biking is a great excercise and a way to become familiar with a city where you live. There are cities that have been adapted to bikes, promoting this healthy non polluted way of transportation. Among this great biking cities throught the world are
Amsterdam (Netherlands), which has 40% of all traffic movements by bicycle,
Portland (Oregon, USA), which has a varied bicycle network, about 260 miles, that connects all parts of the city; and
Copenhagen (Denmark), which is home to the world's most successful community bicycle program.
Other cities are
Boulder (Colorado, USA) with a great public programs for safe biking;
Davis (California, USA) with 17% of its residents who commute to work on bikes;
Sandnes (Norway), Trondheim (Norway), which invented the worlds first Bicycle Lift (Trampe), and
San Francisco (California, San Francisco), Berlin (Germany), Barcelona (Spain), and Basel (Switzerland).
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