Bike polo is certainly alive and thriving since it burst on the Austin scene a few years ago. The Austin Texas Bike Polo Social Club puts on weekly matches, has produced several tournaments, and even was the focus of a slick, Dell Lounge video. ATBPSC has upped the ante and will be hosting Ladies Army [...]
Posts Tagged ‘women and cycling’
Forum on increasing cycling among African Americans & women this Friday
With all the activity involving NAHBS this weekend, I wanted to make sure everyone knew about this forum happening on Friday. It’s been mentioned that getting more women on bikes is critical to reach the goal where cycling becomes a main stream transportation choice. On Friday, City of AustinBicycle/Pedestrian Project Coordinator Nadia Barrera and Mellow [...]
Speed Kills: The simple answer to radically increasing bike use
Make cycling faster than driving, and the masses will come If you’ve read this site much, you will know that I am a big proponent of bicycle infrastructure. I think our economic security and long term quality of life depends on shifting people away from the car-dependent, resource sucking lifestyle of the last 65 years. [...]
Friday Film Fun: Women in Motion and more cargo
It has been observed that if we really want to accelerate transportation cycling into mainstream culture, a focus on the needs of women is needed. Cycling in America is male dominated with a report 2:1 or more ratio of men to women choosing two wheels. In addition to expanding the pie, women have a larger [...]
Assoc of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals wants to know what women want
Much has been written lately about how important it is to get women on bikes if we want majority culture acceptance of cycling as legitimate transportation as it is in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. The Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals works on policy initiates to make this happen and wants to hear from women cyclists [...]
Movie Review: Beauty and the Bike
Summary: Documenting an experiment with the effects of social cycling on bike use in young women from Darlington, England, Beauty and the Bike shows a compelling vision of how attainable a cycling culture can be with the right equipment, social network, and basic bicycle infrastructure like bike lanes and paths. Beauty and the Bike Darlington [...]
Two Chicks on Bikes: Another new local blog worth reading
We recently got this e-mail from the Rachel Fields, one of the authors of the new local cycling blog Two Chicks on Bikes. Dear Austin On Two Wheels, My friend, Kathleen Rabe, and I are currently cycling around Europe for 2.5 months. We have been keeping a blog, Two Chicks On Bikes, of reflections on [...]
