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Google's addition of biking directions and bike trail data to Google Maps is one more example of the search engine giant's increased emphasis on connecting users to information. The move is also part of the company's plan to get more users coming to Google Maps for the purpose of showing ...

A suicide bomber on a motorbike ripped through workers queuing for their salaries near a Pakistan hotel on Monday, killing 20 people as the United Nations pulled expatriate staff from the northwest. The force of the explosion outside a bank near the four-star Shalimar Hotel in the ...

Britisher James Bowthorpe has become the fastest man to pedal around the globe, while surviving an ambush in Iran, a collision with a wombat in Australia, food poisoning in India and tendonitis in both ankles. Bowthorpe cycles into Hyde Park, Central London on Friday afternoon, completing an 18,000-mile bike ride across ...

Photo by Jeremy FarmerIf you heard that almost any other band was assembling a group of people to get naked and ride bikes around a mountain, you'd probably dismiss it as a hoax. When it's the Flaming Lips doing the recruiting, though, you wonder what took them so long. For ...

Product: Crosby Bicycle Manufacturer: SwoboWired Rating: 8Swobo now offers half a dozen variations on the urban assault bike, and with the cyclocross-inspired Crosby, it's getting close to attaining two-wheeled nirvana. A cyclocross frame makes a s...

Product: Clip Folding Bike Manufacturer: GiantWired Rating: 6Folding bikes get a bad rap, but rightly so: Few deconstruct smoothly, even fewer look cool. And while Giant's latest folder doesn't fully reconcile the category's classic rift between aesthe...

While purchasing a used motorcycle, you shouldn't just buy the first one that you like. Unfortunately, previously used bikes can have quite a few issues and even if you don't mind a fixer upper, you're going to want to know just what is wrong so you are paying the appropriate ...

The heat has brought out a new plague of mad, show-off, kamikaze-style boy cyclists. I have never been all that keen on cyclists, ever since the dog was mown down and I was nearly sliced in two on the pavement, but compared with this ...

Supermarket pulls TV ad for 'flat-pack' bike after experts say brakes and steering would not work properlyAsda no doubt felt it had scored a PR coup when trumpeting the arrival of "Britain's cheapest bike" in its stores. For £70, customers could walk away with ...

On a rainy morning, few takers for country's first citywide ride-and-go planIt's a miserable morning in the centre of Bristol. The rain is tipping down and only a halfwit would think of hiring a bike in this weather. So count me in.Ride-and-go cycle schemes ...

With a little prep and the right gear, you won't need to worry about breaking down between a bus and a Beemer, or even losing your way - you can just sit back and enjoy the pollution-free ride. ...

Cycling commuters naturally fall into bike 'tribes'. But in a door-to-desk race, who takes the gong? Let's find outGlance around during rush hour and you'll spot all manner of bike riders: dawdlers in suits and dresses, racers in revealing Lycra and simplicity-craving single speeders. ...

Hoping to engage a "non-traditional" global audience the tech-savvy Obama administration has crafted a new strategy to disseminate Obama's foreign speeches. Using SMS texting, social networking sites, free move theater screenings and yes, ev...

Maison d'Envie in Berlin rewards 'green commitment' with a discount, but what else would encourage you to ride a bike?The Germans have always been one step ahead of the rest of us when it comes to the environment. They are European champions when it ...

Product: Nerd Manufacturer: KnogWired Rating: 8 #package_banner { display: none; } I like the simple pleasures of cycling. Who wants to turn a ride into a spreadsheet extravaganza? Still, I've always been curious how fast and how far I've gone,...