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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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