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3 articles · Stories, data and practical guides about urban cycling, route planning and the cities we ride in.

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   City guides

   Berlin cobblestones: where they are and how to avoid them

   Why Berlin's side streets still rattle, why "paved" on a map does not mean smooth, and how Spokli prices a cobblestone stretch or keeps it off your route.

   6 October 2026 3 min read

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   Route planning

   Why fewer turns matter more than fewer kilometres

   A six-kilometre ride with seventeen decisions is harder than a seven-kilometre ride with five. What a turn really costs a cyclist, and how Spokli counts it.

   6 October 2026 4 min read

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   Data and maps

   Lit or not: what Spokli knows and what it cannot

   205,000 lamps from Berlin's open data, a few rules for what a lamp on the map says about light on the road, and a frank list of what the model does not know.

   6 October 2026 4 min read