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Coffee Break: Bike Dream

Dutch cyclist Piet Van Kempen circles the track at Wembley during a six-day cycling event in September 1936. Most competitors covered 1,000 miles.
Dutch cyclist Piet Van Kempen circles the track at Wembley during a six-day cycling event in September 1936. Most competitors covered 1,000 miles.Derek Berwin/Getty Images

by Jill Riley and Anna Weggel

June 03, 2021

Yesterday we put the spotlight on "running songs" for World Running Day, and today we're going to keep the activity going with "bike songs" for World Bike Day.

You just have to love a bike -- a simple, relatively affordable, environmentally sustainable means of transportation.

Get on your bikes and ride!

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what bike songs do you want to hear in honor of World Bike Day?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played

Queen - Bicycle Race
Kraftwerk - Tour De France
Pink Floyd - Bike
Pedro the Lion - Yellow Bike
The Decemberists - Apology Song
John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Watching the Wheels
Tom Waits - Broken Bicycles
Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls