One of the videos from the Yoxi cycling promotion competition.

The team that created this video writes of themselves:

We are three non-bikers trying to convince ourselves (and you!) to hit the road. !ola is Ozge “do tricycles count?” Kirimlioglu, Liesje “refuses to make a left” Hodgson, and Angela “can’t remember her last tune-up” Chen. Do we have what it takes to learn the rules of the road? Will we survive the bike-across-the-Williamsburg-bridge-without-stopping challenge? More importantly, can we convince a few high-powered executives, stay-at-home-moms, and devoted fashionastas to give biking a try too? Follow our blog and find out.

P.S. Don’t forget the Cookbook giveaway!

UPDATE: The winner is Bruce A via Twitter. Congratulations!

The Athlete’s Plate: Real Food for High Performance from Velopress is a guide and cookbook with easily prepared recipes by professional chef and endurance athlete Adam Kelinson.

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A man rides his electric bicycle to transport ducks on a flooded street in Nanjing, Jiangsu province July 12, 2010. Flooding, landslides and torrents of mud have killed 50 people in southern China and the government has evacuated thousands of people from homes near an overfilled, leaking reservoir, officials and state media said.

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