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  How to ride a bike in Berlin Everyone rides their bike in Berlin. But traveling on two wheels can be dangerous - not least due to aggressive drivers, says DW columnist Gero Schliess. The capital needs more and better bike lanes, he says.         If you want to get to know the Berliners, then get on a bike. Recently, after a long and delicious event at the Italian embassy, I cycled home to the district of Prenzlauerberg. It was already late, and it was a long way. In the dark, I pedaled through a couple of red lights to make up time - to the annoyance of a few drivers whose honks are still ringing in my ears. Gero Schliess' Berlin 24/7 column appears weekly I distinctly remember a brief conversation I had at the intersection of the famous Unter den Linden boulevard and Spandauer Strasse, not far from Alexanderplatz. An athletic middle-aged woman, obviously an experienced Berlin cyclist, stopped at a red light and yelled at me, "I saw you rode through red lights...