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Positive Spin: On yer bike: it’s a message worth recycling

The Age: On yer bike: it’s a message worth recycling
Erin Sievwright, a long-time bike enthusiast who often chooses track suit pants over Lycra shorts, sometimes wonders if she is the most unfashionable cyclist on the road. The 26-year-old, whose love affair with cycling started as a teenager, says she only recently traded in her trainers [...]

Positive Spin: Around the world in 13 years

The Age: Around the world in 13 years
He was hit by a car in Colorado, attacked by a crocodile in Australia, detained as a suspected spy in Egypt and survived illness and periods of despair. Now British adventurer Jason Lewis has finally come home, after completing a 13-year, 74,000-kilometre human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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Positive Spin: Music star pushes cycling lifestyle

AM New York: Music star pushes cycling lifestyle
Envisioning a city where bicycle traffic gets priority over automobiles, singer David Byrne, a longtime city bike commuter, hosted a program Saturday that explored ways to make New York’s streets more like those of bike-friendly Copenhagen. About 35 percent of the workforce in the Danish capital commutes [...]