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11/24/2007: "The Flatland Myth Flattened"
The good folks over at Denmark's Cycleliciousness blog finally got tired of hearing how Copenhageners and Amsterdammers and gathered up some statistics showing impressively high transportational cycling use in a variety of hilly Eurotowns, including:- Parma, italy (19% of all trips by bike)
- Ferrera, Italy (31%)
- Frigid Västerås, Sweden (33%)
We recommend reading the entire good-natured and coherent article on their blog; they call this entry Debunking the Flat Country/Bike Country Myth.