A family makes its way across the eastern seaport town of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, on July 5.

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The peloton -- the main group of cyclists in a race -- rides along in stage six of the Tour de France in Gueugnon, France, on July 9.

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A Nepalese child rides in the basket of a bicycle in Kathmandu on Feb. 22.

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Two Burundian bike transporters push a load from the hills down into the capital city, Bujumbura. 

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A boy rides home from school after a heavy downpour in a suburb of Beijing, on June 2.

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Walking through the ruins of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 12.

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A young girl transports plastic cans filled with water in the Khadaghoda Sector in the Little Rann of Kutch, some 160 kilometers from Ahmadabad, India, on Feb. 7.

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Boys playing with a cycle cart in Hasankeyf, Turkey, a small poverty-stricken town on the banks of the Tigris, on April 10.

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An Indian man cycles past an advertisement board promoting the 2010 World Cup in New Delhi on June 3.

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A man pushes his bicycle through a flooded city in eastern Slovakia, on June 4.

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A Pakistani ice-cream vendor cycles past a market in Rawalpindi on June 24.

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A Burundian cyclist pedals downhill on May 11.

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A woman commuting on an electric bicycle in Beijing, on June 30.

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Afghan boys take a break from their ride to pray at dawn near Marja in Helmand province on March 17.

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A Palestinian boy rides next to Israel's separation barrier on the outskirts of Jerusalem, on May 4.

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A man rides an electric bicycle on a Shanghai road on July 8.

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Slovakian boys ride through the frozen Liptovska Mara dam as the sun sets near the central town of Liptovsky Mikulas, on March 22.

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An Indian commuter makes his way to work amid dense fog in New Delhi on Jan. 2.

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Bicycle transporters hitching a ride up the mountain on their way out of Bujumbura, Burundi, on May 15.

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An Afghan man rides his bicycle at dusk in Kabul, on Jan. 31.

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