No sweat! Madrid electric bicycle share system takes off

They allow you to climb the steepest streets of Madrid without sweating, even on sultry summer days: more than 50,000 residents of the Spanish capital have signed up for a public electric bike share system. In the shadow of the San Ildefonso church in the heart of Madrid, Anne Stauder, a tourist from Luxembourg, is trying out a BiciMAD bike for the first time. The white bicycles work just like a regular bike but an electric motor kicks in to help with pedalling, and most importantly it give an e