Entries tagged "bicycle design"

Bike Shorts 20 February 2009

20 February 2009

"The most frequent excuse I hear from car drivers as to why they couldn't possibly use their bikes instead is: 'How do you get home a week's groceries on a bicycle?' Car drivers say this as if the impossibility of such a task is self evident. I don't argue, but I do chuckle, because many of us do it all the time."--Anne Felker, the Practical Pedal.

Bike Shorts 30 July 2008

30 July 2008

"Within societies of mass automobility, bicycles are often regarded as a children's toy, a middle-class sports fad, or a form of transport for those who are too poor to drive. Within less that three generations, cultures of everyday or utility cycling disappeared. Those who continued to cycle are often regarded with suspicion."--Adrian, Yellow Brick Road.

Bike Shorts 14 July 2008

14 July 2008

"It's time to take cycling back and place it firmly in the category 'normal way to get to work, to the shops, to the cinema'." --The Slow Bicycle Movement

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