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Kickstarting Bicycle History

By bikeleague | March 25, 2013
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All of a sudden, history seems to be the “in” thing. First, there was the glorious return of the winged wheel to the League’s logo. Then there were several requests…

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Women’s (Bike) History: Mia Birk

By bikeleague | March 25, 2013
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Guest post by Fionnoula Quinn, civil engineer at Alta Planning + Design and board member for Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling Mia Birk fell in love with bicycling while attending…

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Women’s (Bike) History Month: Barbara McCann

By bikeleague | March 22, 2013
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Guest post by Stefanie Seskin, Deputy Director of the National Complete Streets Coalition Complete Streets. The phrase feels so natural and obvious now, almost as though it appeared in our vocabulary…

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Women’s Forum Recap: Megan Odett on Empowering Moms to Ride

By bikeleague | March 22, 2013
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When she got pregnant and had her first child, Megan Odett knew her life would never be the same: “I thought I lost everything I liked about the person I…

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Women’s (Bike) History Month: Deb Hubsmith

By bikeleague | March 21, 2013
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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…

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Women’s (Bike) History: 3 Days, 5 Women, 250 Miles

By bikeleague | March 20, 2013
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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…

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Women’s Forum Recap: Jenna Burton on Creating Black Bike Culture

By bikeleague | March 20, 2013
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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…

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How the Challenge Can Help your Business or Advocacy Organization

By Alison Dewey | March 20, 2013
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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…

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Women’s (Bike) History: Phyllis Harmon

By bikeleague | March 19, 2013
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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…

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Women’s (Bike) History: Ellen Fletcher

By bikeleague | March 18, 2013
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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…

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