Mastodawn

https://motherloadmovie.com/welcome

Phil (ascentale)Feb 21

@FourT4 @bikenite A2. There are a couple of nice images used in the beginning of the Motherload movie (link below) and I though I remember seeing a nice exhibit at the Smithsonian museum of American History last time I visited. I don't know if that's since been wiped clean for not agreeing with this admin's ideals, but it was an educational and enjoyable exhibit.

Home — MOTHERLOAD

MOTHERLOAD

Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲Feb 21

That was a good movie.

Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲Feb 21

https://bookshop.org/p/books/wheels-of-change-how-women-rode-the-bicycle-to-freedom-with-a-few-flat-tires-along-the-way-sue-macy/4bb3c750e8c152f4

A2. None personally, and not sharing the few I have from half a decade ago because of privacy issues, but this was a great book with a bunch of photos of women and PedalCycles:

"Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)."

Mx. Eddie R Feb 21

@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite
A2.
No photo, but during WWII the very last thing my grandmother and her sister did before leaving Amsterdam for Canada was to drop their skirts and ride through town wearing (*gasp*) pants. They stopped around the corner from the port to put their skirts back, rode to the ship, and still somehow Opa knew.
#BikeNite

AI6YR Ben Feb 21

https://www.loc.gov/item/00563606/

BikeNite A2. This one is great, the Library of Congress has a digitized film !) from 1903's showing women (and men) commuting home from work on bicycle.

Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Feb 21

@ai6yr @ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite What is remarkable to me about that film is that it shows just how rapidly cycling took off following the introduction of the "safety bicycle" just a few years earlier. At the time of this 1903 film, most people would have only recently been able to purchase safety bicycles, as they were only introduced in the US, by Overman, in Masschusetts, in 1887, and it would have taken some few years for them to reach many markets. Parke Davis was in Detroit, MI.

clew Feb 21

https://katjungnickel.com/portfolio/bikes-bloomers-book/

Kat Jungnickel’s book on women who engineered made and PATENTED convertible bicycling clothes —

Bikes & Bloomers - Kat Jungnickel

Kat Jungnickel

Mark Connolly moved to @[email protected]Feb 21

@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite A2. There are a few women and girls riding in this bike bus from a few years ago here in Waterloo 😀🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️❤️

#BikeBus

f*cking b*tch club Feb 21

@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite A2: oooh, I love this one! I gave a talk a couple years back on this subject, and I’m doing it again this spring with a slightly different title.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607144/revolutions-by-hannah-ross/. (awesome history, but no photos)

https://katjungnickel.com/portfolio/bikes-bloomers-book/
(the photo below is from this book)

this one, published by National Geographic, has loads of photos: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wheels-of-change-sue-macy/1102176634

Brownian_motion Feb 21

@grammasaurus By any chance are you ever in the Midwest. We have local group that hosts open lectures we call History Happy Hour here in town once a month. That would be a great talk.

daihard (he/him)Feb 21

@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite A2: I wish I had pictures to share. Where I'm from, women cycling is a daily occurrence as they do a lot of things on bikes, including (but not limited to) doing grocery shopping, dropping off / picking up kids, covering their last-mile trips, etc, but I realize that cycling was a way for women to gain freedom and independence at least in North America.

#BikeNite

adamrice Feb 21

@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite In the late 1800s, six-day racing was a big deal, and there was also women’s six-day racing, which was a little less crazy—and probably better racing—because they were allowed to take breaks. Tillie Anderson was one of the big names

rowmyboat Feb 21

@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite A2: there’s this book I was given for a birthday by an ex #BikeNite

@rowmyboat @ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite

Ellie Feb 22

Bicycling for Ladies, Maria E. Ward, is in the public domain.

https://librivox.org/bicycling-for-ladies-by-maria-e-ward/

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62227

#BikeNite #epub #audiobook

Bicycling for Ladies | LibriVox

LibriVox

Jon Roach Feb 22

@ellie @rowmyboat @ascentale nice! Thanks Ellie.

Megan Lynch (she/her)Feb 21

@ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite A2. https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a62503930/afghanistan-cyclist-evacuation-taliban-us-troop-withdrawal/

https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2017/01/06/beaten-lady-violence-cyclists-nothing-new/

https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/103945/rec/37

https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/58981/rec/20

https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/130784/rec/15

https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/103910/rec/18

https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/103936/rec/32

The Alchemists

When the US withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban began taking away freedoms women had enjoyed for 20 years. These female cyclists had to flee for their safety.

Bicycling

@meganL @ascentale @FourT4 @bikenite

markn🚲Feb 21

Interesting read. Somehow I'd forgotten about the destruction of those Buddhas.

The ongoing nastiness of the Taliban has somehow got lost in all the other nastiness.

Jon Roach Feb 21

@ascentale

A2. Thank you all for taking the time to reply, some fascinating stuff there, and I have duly deluged Roach Minor so we'll see what they make of it all! @meganL @cainmark @silvermoon82 @ai6yr @gcvsa @clew @uxmark @grammasaurus @adamrice @rowmyboat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kittie_Knox

clew Feb 24

One more! She died SO young. Keep her memory in the wires —

@FourT4 @ascentale @meganL @cainmark @silvermoon82 @ai6yr @gcvsa @uxmark @grammasaurus @adamrice @rowmyboat

Kittie Knox - Wikipedia