Finding Your Bike Tribe
thanks Eva Lu for this lovely photo on flickr. I like to ride my bike alone. It’s meditative. As my body responds to my awareness of road conditions and traffic, there’s a part of my brain that is problem-solving and ruminating in a way that doesn’t happen to me while I’m driving (except perhaps on long road trips). While I enjoy the solitude of daily bike riding, one of the things that keeps me riding over the long term is group rides. I did not reckon... Read More
Where the Women on Wheels Really Are
I was fascinated, and a little bewildered, by a post at Velojoy yesterday. Susi writes: “It was refreshing to discover in the League’s most recent Bicycle Friendly America Guide a list of 10 communities where female commuters outnumber their male counterparts.” Then the post gives a list of of the 10 cities with a higher percentage of females riding, including places such as Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Vancouver, Washington. It’s a little hard to trust... Read More
Where Women Love To Wheel
The Two Most Important Words in Biking Today
I don’t hate cars. I don’t hate the heavy old Volvo that drove me to the hospital to deliver my first son, the oversized SUV that took me to birth my second son, or the big new SUV that helped rush him and me to the emergency room two years later when he cut the top off his finger. I don’t hate the cars that have delivered me safely to happy events, helped me move, taken me to far-flung weekends of skiing, and hiking, and even antiquing cross country. I don’t... Read More
The Two Most Important Words in Biking Today
Are Women Really Afraid to Bike?
Pitting the Pinterest photographic evidence (pretty girls on bikes floating through the world’s major cities) with the actually statistics (3 men cycling to every one woman) is depressing. I’ve been thinking about it for two years, as I wrote the book, and blog posts, and articles. Why don’t more women ride? It started to seem that a low-level persistent fear of riding in traffic was paralyzing people, especially women, who want to bike. In organizing the recent... Read More
Women on Wheels Has Arrived!
Girls on bikes needs to grow up – and here’s the book to help it do so. Women on Wheels: A Handbook and How-To for City Cyclists, is the result of my musings on the question: “Why do men outnumber women in the bike lanes by an average of 3 to 1?” and of course, “Why don’t more women ride?” It takes me 200 pages to try to dispel some of the myths and answer the questions. Order one now. Autographed by the author…i.e. me! Read More
