See this route on Ridespot. See free self-guided bike tours here. Nine minutes and twenty nine seconds. That’s how long a police officer named Derek Chauvin kneeled on a man’s neck until the man, George […]
Author: Pattie Baker
Writer, street photographer, urban farmer and global WWOOFer. League Cycling Instructor (#5382) and first Metro Atlanta Bicycle Mayor as part of global consortium with Amsterdam-based social enterprise BYCS. Peace Corps Uganda invitee (June 2020, derailed due to COVID-19). Former CDC Foundation Communications Specialist with State of Alaska Dept. of Health on Healthy You in 2022 project. Mensa member. See books on Amazon in all global markets (USA link: https://www.amazon.com/Pattie-Baker/e/B005JBN7ZK) and on indie book sites.
Meet People in Metro Atlanta (and Beyond) Making It More Welcoming to Ride Bikes
Meet Greg Masterson (Metro Atlanta Cycling Club) Meet Marjon Manitius (Brookhaven Bike Alliance) Meet Byron Rushing (Atlanta Regional Commission) Meet Creighton Bryan (Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy) Meet Betsy Eggers and Jack Honderd (Peachtree Creek Trail and Brookhaven Bike Aliance) Jon’s […]
Small Actions
If you arrived here due to recent media coverage, welcome! Please spend some time noodling around. There’s lots of free and helpful info on this site, and on this one. (Note: Your purchase of my […]
The Conundrum of Joy
I write about joy a lot (including when I needed to work to reclaim it after surviving a hit-and-run while Traveling at the Speed of Bike last July). I try to keep my advocacy work, […]
“Blah Blah Blah; Stay Home Then.”
They say “don’t read the comments.” And I try not to, but sometimes I see them. They are mostly nice and supportive. But since I often tell a rubber-hits-the-road truth that some people don’t want […]
Meet Freedom
If you ask people what one word comes to mind when they think of bikes, the overwhelming majority of them say the same thing. Freedom. So as I’d been thinking of what to name the […]
Meet Kaysha
Meet Kaysha. She learned how to ride a bike today! Her goal is to be able to ride a bike with her friends on the Atlanta Beltline (shhhhh; they don’t know yet that she didn’t […]
DeKalb County
I’m almost six months in as Metro Atlanta Bicycle Mayor, by the way, and I’ve been tracking what I’m doing that has an impact and what doesn’t. (Short answer: a LOT is happening behind the […]
