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Slideshow: 2013 National Bike Summit Success

By bikeleague | March 8, 2013

With 750 attendees from all 50 states and three Canadian provinces, the 2013 National Bike Summit was certainly a success. The National Women’s Bicycling Forum also saw a huge turnout, with 350 people…

Women’s (Bike) History: Kittie Knox

By bikeleague | March 8, 2013

There was no denying that Miss Kittie Knox was a card-carrying member of the League of American Wheelmen, but her attendance at the annual meeting in 1895 lit a fire…

Annual Member Meeting: New Faces for League Board, Equity Advisory Council

By bikeleague | March 7, 2013

This is no longer you father’s or you grandfather’s League of American Bicyclists, president Andy Clarke said this week at the 2013 National Bike Summit. It shows: With the League’s…

Women’s (Bike) History: Tillie Anderson

By bikeleague | March 7, 2013

Guest post by April Streeter, author of Women on Wheels It’s little known that bike racing for women flourished even before 1900. In the late 1880’s, a group of great…

Blizzard Can’t Stop the Bike Summit: Advocates Head to Capitol Hill

By bikeleague | March 6, 2013

The federal government is closed, but bike advocates are still trudging through the wind, rain and sleet to meet with members of Congress. While some offices are shuttered in the…

Tweet Your Congress Members for Bike Safety TODAY!

By bikeleague | March 6, 2013

The League is currently hosting the 2013 National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. — showing Congress that Bicycling Means Business. Maybe you’re here in D.C. with us, defying the snowy weather. Maybe you…

Black Women Bike DC Inspires at National Bike Summit

By bikeleague | March 6, 2013

It all started with a short hashtag: #blackwomenbikeDC From there, Veronica Davis helped form an organization to bring together black women in Washington, D.C., interested in cycling. That spurred a…

Women’s (Bike) History: Annie “Londonderry” Kopchovsky

By bikeleague | March 6, 2013

Guest post by Gillian Klempner Willman  In 1895, Annie “Londonderry” Kopchovsky, a 23-year-old Jewish immigrant and mother of three, was visiting Stockton, California while on a cycling journey around the…

National Bike Summit Update – Lobby Day Still On

By Scott | March 6, 2013

Updated 11 am The Federal Government has announced that it will be closed today, Wednesday, March 6. We checked with the Capitol switchboard, and Congressional offices will be open. We…

The Senator and the Mayor: Local Control as Strategy and Success

By bikeleague | March 6, 2013

A Democratic U.S. Senator from the Northeast and a Republican Mayor from the Midwest — at the National Bike Summit this morning we saw the success of local control from…