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		<title>Google added bike routes to Google Maps!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the coolest thing since I first removed my training wheels. You can go to Google Maps, select &#8220;Get Directions&#8221; and in the options down below you can ask for directions by bicycle. Yay!
This is still a new thing. Google warns there may be dangerous roads on the bike routes, not to mention unmapped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bicyclefreedom.com/2010/03/google-added-bike-routes-to-google-maps/</link>
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		<title>Some new bike routes on LA&#8217;s back streets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to start chronicling the ways I avoid traffic when biking around Los Angeles. I&#8217;m not sure how to organize this, probably with a category and sub-cats so you can follow along and get my suggestions.
Does anyone with WordPress skills have tips on the best way to do this?
A few of the main routes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bicyclefreedom.com/2010/03/some-new-bike-routes-on-las-back-streets/</link>
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		<title>Bike to work or take the bus?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I made it from the Westside to downtown L.A. half an hour early. In rush hour traffic, the bike is faster than the bus. Faster than driving, too, in a lot of situations.
Not to mention an early morning cruise along the beach, then zipping past quiet homes with lush trees and interesting gardens.
It&#8217;s good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bicyclefreedom.com/2010/03/bike-to-work-or-take-the-bus/</link>
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		<title>The healing power of a bike ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some days I feel like a centaur. If I&#8217;m cut off too long from my better half (that&#8217;s the bicycle) I&#8217;m stuck&#8211;immobile and mutilated until I can get two wheels firmly underneath me again.
Last night we did some unusual exercises during a taijutsu class outdoors in exceptionally cold weather. I wrenched the muscles in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bicyclefreedom.com/2010/03/the-healing-power-of-a-bike-ride/</link>
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		<title>Embrace the uphill climb when &#8220;shit rolls downhill&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re among the committed &#8220;inner circle&#8221; of bikers interested in bike touring through southern Italy, you&#8217;ve already heard the news.
Over the last few months a number of my business clients have been unable to pay me. These are good people, but they&#8217;re waiting to get paid by their clients, who in turn are not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bicyclefreedom.com/2010/02/embrace-the-uphill-climb-when-shit-rolls-downhill/</link>
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		<title>Bike tip: Your bike, your lungs, and the urban atmosphere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I got stuck behind a bus during my bike commute. It felt like I was sucking air right out of the exhaust pipe. But this usually doesn&#8217;t happen, because I have tactics I use to keep my lungs safe most of the time. If you ride your bike in a polluted urban environment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bicyclefreedom.com/2010/02/bike-tip-your-bike-your-lungs-and-the-urban-atmosphere/</link>
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		<title>An interesting blog on ancient Roman roads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I plan to bike as many ancient Roman roads as possible in my lifetime. If you want to see some professional photos, video, or history of the via Appia and other ancient Roman roads, check this out:
http://roman-roads.blogspot.com/ 
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		<link>http://bicyclefreedom.com/2010/01/an-interesting-blog-on-ancient-roman-roads/</link>
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		<title>Bicycle Breakthrough: Los Angeles is a top car-free city</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ever ride a bike in L.A., you probably feel the pain of living in the classic car-dominated culture. So this might surprise you. It certainly blew me away.
On his Human Transit blog, Jarret Walker listed the top 50 cities with the highest percentage of car-free households. East L.A. made the list, with 21% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bicyclefreedom.com/2010/01/bicycle-breakthrough-los-angeles-is-a-top-car-free-city/</link>
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		<title>The bike as a force of nature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two items caught my eye today. One was Bike Man Dan&#8217;s blog post about a set of earrings made from recycled bike tubes. The other was an article about two bike-stealing operations that were foiled by the authorities.
The article made me think of horse thieves in the wild west. These criminals often paid with their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bicyclefreedom.com/2010/01/the-bike-as-a-force-of-nature/</link>
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		<title>Biking out of Benevento</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once you get outside Benevento you hit some beautiful country right away. There was no way I could have predicted the amazing show that was waiting, but that&#8217;s the serendipity of bike tours.
It was going to be a major turning point in the tour, and after this night I would spend a lot more time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bicyclefreedom.com/2010/01/biking-out-of-benevento/</link>
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