http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: A bicycle benefit you probably never thought of en Mon, 18 May 2026 10:29:16 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15663#post-202575 Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:35:56 +0000 kaputnik 202575@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34602208" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34602208</a></p> <p>"A new migration route - cycling from Russia into Norway".</p> <p>You're a Syrian refugee who has found themselves in arctic Russia. Russia doesn't allow you to cross it's borders on foot. Norway doesn't allow drivers to carry you across as a passenger without papers.</p> <p>Solution?</p> <p>Buy/borrow/beg a cheap child's bike and cycle across.</p> <p>Desperate times call for desperate measures, and humans are an ingenious species in these circumstances (although, the rest of the time our abilities are frankly debatable). </p>