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Amsterdam prepares to ban fat bikes due to increase in serious accidents | Netherlands

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oDuring a busy lunch hour, an electric bicycle with thick tires speeds through the green streets of Amsterdam’s Vondelpark. But these vehicles, which the Dutch call “fat bikes”, have been banned in some parts of the Netherlands after a notable increase in accidents, especially involving children. “That’s nonsense!” Henk Hendrik Wolthers, 69, said from the […]

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Cycling is changing at a rapid pace. But is the UK keeping pace? | cycling

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EFollowing Team GB’s velodrome success at the 2008 Olympics, campaigners and government ministers have confidently predicted Britain would become a nation of cyclists. There’s just one problem. In most cases, that didn’t happen. Aside from the very concentrated surge in bicycle use during COVID-19, levels of cycle travel in the UK have remained largely stagnant

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