Category Archives: Advocacy
VIDEO: Why Polk Street Needs Protected Bike Lanes
Kurdish Activism By Bicycle
Open city streets and apartment buildings on-the-rise make up much of contemporary Diyarbakir. And the city’s outskirts are lined with dirt patches that marking future construction project. Five years from now, the […]
Climate Change and Bicycle Travel
David Kroodsma, environmental consultant and data journalist and Stanford graduate, rode from Palo Alto, California to the southern tip of Chile and across the United States to raise public awareness about climate […]
San Francisco’s Vision Zero
It concerns me how many people are scared to ride a bicycle. And for fair reason- we’re considered ‘vulnerable road users’ in large part because death and injuries are too […]
Bikes and Buses in Bogotá
Bogota, Colombia keeps coming up in my cycling research when it comes to sustainable urban development. It seems a lot of people are and have been concerned about the extreme […]
NGO Highlight: World Bicycle Relief
Check out this video made by World Bicycle Relief, my favorite organization that’s transforming individuals and communities through the power of bicycles.
Scrapertown Bicycles
The duo of California is a Place recently made a really schnazzy bicycles keeping kids out of trouble in Oakland, California "In order to become a member of the Original […]
Pedal Forward’s Bamboo Bikes
“We’re not claiming to have invented the wheel, so to speak. We’re simply attaching two of them to a bamboo frame and making a quality bike that won’t break your […]
Business Spotlight: Bicycle Space DC
One of my biggest regrets from my two and a half years in Washington DC is missing out on the weekly Cupcake Ramble ride hosted by Bicycle Space. The shop […]
The Bike Beat 