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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…