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WPML echo url that switchs to the corrent url on translation

Hi

I've run into an issue with WMPL plugin.

I have various links hard coded into my theme.

<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/riders" title="" class="button white-black pie ">

     <?php _e('view the riders page','my theme'); ?>

</a>

If I switch to another language, and then click this button, I get a 404. For example if I was viewing Spanish, the URL would need to be...

<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/jinetes/?lang=es

But when I switch language, the link does not change.

I read this documentation...

http://wpml.org/documentation/support/creating-multilingual-wordpress-themes/hard-coded-theme-links/

...and this bascially says you can only output full a tags, which is not what I'm after. I after just the URL.

I don't want to start messing with my css to accomodate these links by using

<?php icl_link_to_element(10); ?>

I need to just echo the URL string.

Thanks