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Guest post by Margo Pedroso, Deputy Director, Safe Routes to School National Partnership As the founder and director of the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, Deb Hubsmith has made it…

Guest post by Marya McQuirter  Years ago while working on her dissertation on the social history of blacks in D.C. during the first half of the 20th century, McQuirter came…

Veronica Davis couldn’t have put it better: “A lot of times we try to make women this monolithic group — but we’re not.” From the Fender Bender LGBT crew out of…

We’re less than two months away from the official start of the 2013 National Bike Challenge and we want you to be as prepared as possible. To get you geared…

To say the history of the League of American Bicyclists is incomplete without recognizing Phyllis Harmon is an understatement. There simply would be no modern history of the League to…

Even at age 83, even suffering from lung cancer, Ellen Fletcher rode her bike to City Hall for a hearing on bicycle improvements this past summer. That was the level…

It took her three months to get a handle on “Gladys.” Frances Willard, a suffragist and temperance advocate based in Illinois, learned how to ride her bike, “Gladys,” at age…

Missed the Indianapolis Mayor’s breakout session? Late to the discussion on how to use social media as an advocacy tool? Don’t worry, you can catch up now. We’ve compiled the…

Guest post by April Streeter, author of Women on Wheels Breaking ground in women’s cycling back in the early decades of biking wasn’t just for the racing types like Tillie…

Even before the turn of the century, Maria Ward was teaching women to wrench. During the bicycle craze of the 1890s, Ward published a popular book aimed at getting more…