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This Is Supposedly the Urban Bike of the Future

If trends continue, we'll all soon be riding extremely well-designed mopeds.
The winning "Denny" design.
The winning "Denny" design.The Bike Design Project

In the coming years, what mutations can we expect to see in bicycle design in American cities?

To judge from a national contest to make the "next-wave urban bike," it will be things like turn signals, automatic-gear shifters, and motors—almost everything you'd expect on a good moped.