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Joensuu is a small city located in North Eastern Finland near the Russian
border. In the early 1980's the city had a progressive idea, an idea that
has since been replicated in many cities throughout the United States.
The city fixed up and 200 bicycles and painted them yellow. Next they
distributed them throughout the city for public use. The idea was for
the people of the town to use the bicycles and when they were done to
leave the bicycles where others could use them.
In a short time most of the bicycles had disappeared. That would have
been the end of the story until a search for the lost bicycles began in
in the late 1990's. Now almost 15 years after the bikes first hit the
street the bicycles have been sighted throughout the world. From Japan
to the United States these bicycles have been spotted and photographed.
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