Practical Cycles ~ Useful Everyday City Solutions

I've written recently about several human-powered cycle solutions (and the corresponding metropolitan support infrastructure), including on:

• Giant and the enormous cycle maker sector
• Sammaan Indian cycle rickshaw innovations
• Global Cycle Solutions bike peripherals (DV Fall 2008)
  
• Robotic bike storage system
• BlooBike and other bike share ventures
• RevoPower and other in-wheel motor retrofits
  
• Cargo work bikes in Cambridge & Boston
• Bikeable Boston & Active Transportation in cities worldwide

This cycle powered saga will only escalate going forward since bikes are absolutely key to future green, clean, sustainable, vital cities! It's important for us to look at the lead user cities and countries as testbeds for showing the way globally. In this regard, here's a survey piece from Reuters about the Dutch Quest for Practical Bicycles...
And here's a Cycle Copenhagen special report... And the first A Billion Bikes episode about Copenhagen... Finally, I'm posting again this wonderful piece on Cycling Friendly Cities by former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia Enrique Peñalosa...