Why is Riding a Bicycle in the City Turning Into a Culture War

These Women Were Some of Afghanistan's Best Athletes. Then the ...

... to ride a bicycle. Born in 1993, Zakia Mohammadi was a teenager when she risked her life to challenge this cultural taboo. Her success was ...

Bicycling news/issues/culture - featured is Cuba's bike revolution

Arcata city council's proclamation against war on Iraq and Kyoto Protocol proclamation. ... The ride was amazing, to have 6,000 cyclists riding as a group ...

Blake and Leo Have Won the Culture War for the Bikers - Observer

Last March The Observer investigated the fight for the right to bike, and discovered that it's fierce enough to be considered New York's ...

How the 19th-century bicycle craze empowered women and ...

“Here she was out here riding a bicycle, wearing bloomers, doing things she wanted to do,” White says. The bicycle craze boosted the “rational ...

Outside Magazine: Rage Against Your Machine | Bicycle Law

The dark side of the “cyclist” label is that it becomes a shortcut to social categorization. Suddenly, that messenger who cut in front of you ...

The Night That Changed San Francisco Cycling Forever - KQED

People in cars would open their doors into cyclists while they were riding, causing them to crash. Two people were seriously injured. Many of ...

Drivers v cyclists: it's like an ethnic conflict, which offers clues to ...

Drivers and cyclists develop distinct identities of themselves and others in ways that mirror the formation of ethnic identities.

Americans Are Ready to Embrace Bicycles, but There's One Thing ...

In his 2010 book One Less Car, professor and cycling advocate Zack Furness cites a Worldwatch Institute study that showed modern Americans ...

Critical Mass Turns 20 - Earth Island Institute

What's come a long way is that there's way more people on bicycles. Because we've created a new climate of political and social possibility in ...

The Dutch Approach to Bicycle Mobility: Retrofitting Street Design for ...

City councils and traffic departments began an early road expansion and regulating traffic speeds. In the urban context, segregated cycle tracks were introduced ...

Carspiracy - You'll Never See The World The Same Way Again

... on GCN... How One Woman Changed The Cycling Industry Forever https ... I went inside a "war on cars" neighbourhood in the UK.

The History of Women and Bicycles - Kittelson

The bicycling craze of the 1890s had a profound impact on the rights and roles of women in American society.

Bicycling Booms During Lockdown—But There's A Warning ... - Forbes

Bicycle sales are going gangbusters; space for motorists is being reclaimed overnight by global cities installing pop-up cycleways.

The importance of a bicycle in Italy - The Educated Traveller

They continued to play. I started my cycling tour of Ferrara with a circuit of the city walls. Unlike Lucca you don't ride along the top of the ...

The Bike Wars Are Over, and the Bikes Won - New York Magazine

Never underestimate the anger directed at bicyclists. They ride too fast, terrorizing pedestrians. They ride too slow, ...

Bicycling and the Simple (Socialist?) Life - Front Porch Republic

Sometimes, there really is grounds for seeing in the automobile-bicycle standoff a kind of culture war battle. I don't see a lot of Spandex ...

New York City ride and the Congestion Pricing fiasco - Bicycle Dutch

I cycled nearly 30 kilometers through Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. In the video accompanying this post, you can see all the footage I shot while riding ...

How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman | The New Yorker

... culture-wars-with-naomi-klein ... But it is impossible to drive all the way from one side of Delft to the other: to cross the city, you must ride.

Trump's education plan targets culture war, not test scores

Now he returns as American children and schools are struggling to overcome its lingering impact. Learning loss and chronic absenteeism are ...

Minneapolis is a very nice city for biking but it is definitely no Portland

When I ride, I want to enjoy the full culture of my city: houses, cafes, cats. The Midtown Greenway's links to neighborhoods are numerous and ...