bike ♥
bike ♥ from Rick Darge on Vimeo. ran into this video and laughed so hard because i think it says something about how much this actually displays the love i have for my bike. i...
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wheels of gratitude
hello blogiverse! apologies for the silence recently but i just want to send out a quick hello from the Bay Area wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving weekend! remember to thank your bicycle for being...
Read MoreBike Talk: Women And The City
When your an activist weaving through the streets on a bicycle, you see the way cities and minds work without rose colored lenses. Perhaps the world becomes to us more crass and less romantic in...
Read MoreBike Talk: Women, Cycling, & The Media
As far as I have always known, the bicycle was a tool to liberate women. But what happens when you use something that has been liberating to reducing women to images that react to the...
Read MoreBike Talk: Car Advertisements vs Bike Activism
photo In a recent media uproar from GM’s ad targeting college students to “stop pedaling…start driving,” GM got pretty whipped by the bicycle community and activists. As a backlash against the ad, I informed some...
Read MoreGive Me 3 California
“Give Me 3 is the California Bicycle Coalition’s campaign to ensure that California drivers give bicyclists at least 3 feet of space when passing from behind.” “The debate over SB 910 seems to boil down to this very clear...
Read Morethe bicycle as a tool of awareness
advocacy streams into all aspects of human rights. some of us fixate on just one aspect of justice and advocate for it but we are affected by it in many aspects of awareness. in light...
Read Moreyarn bombed bike racks
found at Lake Merrit sometimes even amongst the fragmentation of bicycle infrastructure and road experience, there is always something a little exciting to see like YARN BOMBING or “knit graffiti” here in Oakland. i love the idea...
Read More“Some might call it Enlightenment”
i tend to see the world in a different light, perhaps that is the effect of the bicycle. the quote at the bottom pretty much sums up the types of thoughts that run through my...
Read Moreit doesn’t stop here
since my recent experience of my rear wheel being stolen, i have made some small steps into adjusting into life without a bike (for the moment, it sucks). i have always realized the meaning of...
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