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[photo:arrows.jpg|align=right]Taking a spin on your bike with your camera is always a great way to get out and experience your neighbourhood. Whether you are a shoulder slinger, a hip shooter or you have a third eye on your helmet, documenting a ride can be quite revealing. [more...]

Yahoo has taken a different approach and let the bikes do the shooting. They gave 15 custom, purple city bikes (Electra Townie 8s) to urban cyclists around the world. The bikes are equipped with a bar-mounted, solar-powered GPS camera phone and upload images to photo-sharing site Flickr every 60 seconds while in motion. [more...]

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By checking out the bike's photostream (and let's be clear - the bike takes the pics, the rider steers and points), you get a visual tour of the ride from the point of view of the bike itself - low angles and lots of randomness. You also get to see where each image was taken on the accompanying GPS-plotted map. [more...]