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Pedal for Peace
Pedal for Peace invites you to join us on Saturday July 23 at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis. We hope to raise $15,000+ to help provide satellite phones, motorcycles, and uniforms for Nonviolent Peaceforce’s unarmed civilian peacekeepers in Sri Lanka, Mindanao Philippines, and South Sudan.
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Recovery Bike Shop Offers Options for the Urban Commuter
Gas prices may be back up again but spring has finally arrived. What better time to look at alternative ways to get around. And that could be easier than you think if you visit a new bike shop that opened in the neighborhood. Recovery Bike Shop opened in January at 2555 Central Ave NE, right next to the Eastside Food Co-op, and promises to deliver sales, service and advice to MORE »
Midtown bikes and brew
Love the Midtown Greenway? How about local beers?
Come to an upcoming local micro-brewery beer tasting and food noshing party and you'll be helping the Midtown Greenway Coalition's efforts to keep Xcel Energy's proposed overhead high voltage lines out of the Greenway--everybody wins!
Like Minneapolis, these lady bikers have got "it going on"

Shawn Postera pulled on a pair of stylish arm-warmers she'd sewn herself, hopped atop her beloved Surly Cross-Check and zoomed down the Midtown Greenway to show off her no-hands-needed riding skills. MORE »
Freewheel Midtown Bike Center
Freewheel Midtown Bike Center is a joint effort of Allina Health Systems and the City of Minneapolis to provide the Midtown and larger Twin Cities community a full service bike transportation station, complete with long/short term
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Close calls in dark corners: Questions about Minneapolis bike trail's safety
It was close to 10:30 on a Friday night when cyclist Allison Thoele's regular ride home turned ugly.
As she headed north on the paved trail that parallels the Hiawatha Avenue light-rail line, Thoele, 28, spied three shadowy figures lurking up ahead.MORE »
Capital Deals
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