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A bike lane with some form of buffer between motor traffic and the cycle lane. Buffered bike lane in Manhattan, New York: Lightly segregated: A bike lane with separating features such as wands or orcas. Light segregation on a cycle lane in Berlin: Contraflow: A bike lane which allows cyclists to go against the flow of a one-way street.
Velodrome. Banking in the turns, called cant, allows riders to keep their bikes relatively perpendicular to the surface while riding at speed.When travelling through the turns at racing speed, which may exceed 85 km/h (52.8 mph), the banking attempts to match the natural lean of a bicycle moving through that curve.
A cycle track or cycleway (British) or bikeway [1] (mainly North American), sometimes historically [2] referred to as a sidepath, is a separate route for cycles and not motor vehicles. In some cases cycle tracks are also used by other users such as pedestrians and horse riders (see shared-use route ).
Serotta also built bikes for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Serotta was known in the industry for its proprietary tube designs and revolutionary titanium bicycle building. Serotta sold the company in 1989 to Archibald Cox Jr., son of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox Jr. Cox later purchased Fat City Cycles and merged it with ...
A mountain bike rider doing a trick on a pump track. A pump track is a purpose-built track for cycling.It has a circuit of rollers, [a] banked turns and features designed to be ridden completely by riders "pumping"—generating momentum by up and down body movements, instead of pedaling or pushing. [1]
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A Bicycle Master Plan is a published development plan describing long-range objectives for developing bicycle infrastructure in a city or region. It may include bicycle paths, protected bicycle lanes , bicycle parking, and integration with public transit [ 1 ] as ways to promote bicycling as a viable transportation option.
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