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Bike Books I Recommend: Women on Wheels

Women’s emancipation* and the history of bicycling go hand in handlebars. I’ve had the privilege of meeting so many outstanding women leaders in the movements for better bicycling and s…

Bike Style Life

An incomplete list, I'm sure, of books by women, for women, on bicycling: http://bikestylespokane.com/2024/03/01/bike-books-i-recommend-women-on-wheels/

Tell me what I missed!

[Edited to add: "For women" not meant to suggest that anyone of any gender wouldn't be interested in the history and thinking in these books. "Women" inclusive of trans women and nonbinary people; any books like that out there?]

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Bike Books I Recommend: Women on Wheels

Women’s emancipation* and the history of bicycling go hand in handlebars. I’ve had the privilege of meeting so many outstanding women leaders in the movements for better bicycling and s…

Bike Style Life
I'm currently reading Biking Uphill in the Rain by Tom Fucoloro on Seattle's history through the perspective of bicycling. The book reflects an enormous amount of archival research. That makes me appreciate this snippet by Emmett O'Connell someone just shared from Olympia cycling history. https://olympiahistory.org/site-of-carlyon-racetrack-and-velodromesunset-life/?fbclid=IwAR2ELJ0Klz1IJE90Rr7VcVkd3MSZ5UEYy0YdR-JLIRQx42epDs9ZULY64nw And this by Andy Rosser https://rosserchiro.com/olympia-velodrome/?fbclid=IwAR2hn7U5Nyoj-bGDGaKrBUDE_W0GBKmP3_IDL64imIhN12LlK8CJQSAvwOY, who says their article has an error because the track was hardwood not Douglas fir. #BikeHistory #BikeTooter #OlympiaWA #BikeOLY
Sunset Life building (Capitol Boulevard)/Site of Carlyon Racetrack and Velodrome

Location: 3138 Capitol Blvd SE Wohleb, Mid-Century Modern Velodrome at Carlyon Park, 1890-1900 Photograph courtesy of Washington State Historical  Society Sunset Life building today (2012) Photo from Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation The boundary between Olympia and Tumwater on Capitol Boulevard was not fully determined until well into the 20th century. Just before the…

Olympia Historical Society and Bigelow House Museum

Obsessed with the weird geometry and graphic design of this 1990 Murray Baja Street Cycle.

According to an old issue of Bicycling Magazine, these were welded together in Tennessee and sold at Kmart for $137. This one is 33 years old and still working in Iowa City, despite its apparent weight.

#BikeTooter #bikehistory #iowacity

Check out this bike I found on FB marketplace in Ciudad Hidalgo, MX (photos from post linked below).

Once you get past the bootleg name of Raley, check out the braking system. Non-arthritis-friendly levers connect to chrome-plated steel rods that transfer force to brake pads, directly against each rim. The spring-loaded seat is also fascinating.

EDIT: Based on comments, looks like a Mexican-made Flying Pigeon copy.

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Link to post:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1408201369230125/permalink/6878667608850113/?sale_post_id=6878667608850113&mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Once upon a time I used bikely.com for bike route planning. Went on a nostalgia hunt and found it gone. Not only that, even the article about what happened to it that others were linking to 404'd. Thank heavens for the Wayback Machine. After reading this, wondering why the history has been so thoroughly scrubbed. BikeRadar's site search doesn't bring up articles/forum Qs I find on their site via DuckDuckGo. https://web.archive.org/web/20220128113112/https://www.cyrusher.com/en/m/blog/what-happened-to-bikely-com #BikeTooter #maps #cycling #BikeHistory #BikeMap #Bikely
What Happened to Bikely.com?

Put very simply, Bikely helps cyclists share knowledge of good bicycle routes.

The post-COVID *slow* return of public bike history research talks continues! Since I've got two scheduled now, it would seem time to update the tour website . . . details on May 19 Evanston Ill event coming soon, but next week's Rochester NY #bikehistory talk has all the details:

https://bikebattles.net/the-tour/#2023

#histodons #biketooter

Hoppe & Sorge Köln am Rhein
#Köln hatte einst eine große #Zweiradindustrie #bikehistory