Found this little tidbit of bike history on Bikeradar.com: “A German city which claims to be the birthplace of the bicycle has been spurred into action by a report that rated its cycle-friendliness as merely ’satisfactory’. Karlsruhe – home to Karl Drais, who invented the two-wheeled ‘Laufmaschine’ in 1817 – has declared its intention to become the [...]