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  2. Bucharest metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    The Bucharest Metropolitan Area (Romanian: Zona Metropolitană București) is a metropolitan area project formally established since 2016 that includes Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, and surrounding communes. If completed, it would have a population of about 2.3 million, [8] only slightly larger than that of the city proper (1.9 million).

  3. Cyclo-cross bicycle - Wikipedia

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    A cyclo-cross bike or cyclo-cross bicycle (abbreviated CX Bike or CXB) is a bicycle specifically designed for the rigors of a cyclo-cross race. [1] Cyclo-cross bicycles roughly resemble the racing bicycles used in road racing. The major differences between the two are the frame geometry, and the wider clearances that cyclo-cross bikes have for ...

  4. OLX - Wikipedia

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    The OLX marketplace is a platform for buying and selling services and goods such as electronics, fashion items, furniture, household goods, cars and bikes. In 2014, the platform reportedly had 11 billion page views, 200 million monthly active users, 25 million listings, and 8.5 million transactions per month.

  5. Bicycle-sharing system - Wikipedia

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    Docked bicycles in Gothenburg, Sweden. A bicycle-sharing system, bike share program, [1] public bicycle scheme, [2] or public bike share (PBS) scheme, [3] is a shared transport service where bicycles are available for shared use by individuals at low cost. The programmes themselves include both docking and dockless systems, where docking ...

  6. Sector 2 (Bucharest) - Wikipedia

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    The mayor of Bucharest's Sector 2 is Radu Mihaiu [ro], a member of the USR PLUS Alliance who was elected in 2020 for a four-year term. The Local Council of Sector 2 has 27 seats, with the following party composition (as of 2020): Party. Seats.

  7. Safety bicycle - Wikipedia

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    Safety bicycle. A safety bicycle (or simply a safety) is a type of bicycle that became very popular beginning in the late 1880s as an alternative to the penny-farthing (also known as an "ordinary" or "high wheeler") and is now the most common type of bicycle. Early bicycles of this style were known as safety bicycles because they were noted for ...

  8. Bicycle brake - Wikipedia

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    Animation of a single pivot side-pull caliper brake for the rear wheel of a steel framed road bike. A bicycle brake reduces the speed of a bicycle or prevents the wheels from moving. The two main types are: rim brakes and disc brakes. Drum brakes are less common on bicycles. Most bicycle brake systems consist of three main components: a ...

  9. Gravel bicycle - Wikipedia

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    Gravel bicycle. A Look 765 gravel bicycle, without rider, propped up on a photo stand. A gravel bicycle is a type of bicycle intended for gravel cycling, including gravel racing. [1] They are also sometimes known as " adventure bicycles ", particularly ones intended for harsher off-road terrain. While bicycles have been used for riding on such ...