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Bicyclists ride by an automated real-time bike counter on Market Street on May 9 in San Francisco, California. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has installed an automated real-time bike counter, also known as a bicycle barometer, on Market Street that will display daily and annual counts. According to the SFMTA, the number of cyclists on the streets of San Francisco has surged 71 percent between 2006 and 2011.
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Anwar, a street vendor, transports beds for sale using his motorcycle at Glagahharjo village, near Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on July 4. Anwar says he can travel about 40 km through a few villages a day while selling the beds and can earn 200 thousand rupiah ($23.50) a week. Anwar began selling the beds after refugees from the Mount Merapi volcano area moved into the village.
The sculpture is part of the London Ice Sculpting Festival, a three day event that includes polar bear sculpting classes for the public and speed competitions for the professionals.
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A sculpted ice bike rests on a plinth in Canada Square Park in Canary Wharf on January 13, 2011 in London, England.
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Sculptor Krisztian Pogany works on an ice bike in Canada Square Park in Canary Wharf on January 13, 2011 in London, England.
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Sculptor Krisztian Pogany puts the finishing touches to an ice bike in Canada Square Park in Canary Wharf on January 13, 2011 in London, England.
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Canada's Ashley Barson crashes during women's U23 cross country race event at the Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships at Mont-Sainte-Anne, in Beaupre, Quebec, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010.
This really captures the long moment just before impact.
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Lei Zhiqian rides a modified bicycle across the Hanjiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze River in Wuhan, Hubei province June 16, 2010. The bicycle, equipped with eight empty water containers at the bottom, was modified by Lei's instructor Li Weiguo, who hopes to put his invention into the market. Picture taken June 16, 2010.
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