So I get an email from a woman named Waverley who asks about a bike class. Turns out she hadn’t ridden a bike in years but then went out on the flat Silver Comet trail […]
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Meet Rita Thrasher (Adult Trike/Mountain Bike Coach Extraordinaire)
photo courtesy of Rita Thrasher So a little girl who grew up under Interstate 75 in the shadow of a Kentucky Fried Chicken landmark known as the Big Chicken rode her Huffy Thunder Road bike […]
Meet Daniel Eppstein, Director of Operations at BYCS
photo courtesy of Daniel Eppstein Meet Daniel Eppstein. He’s the Director of Operations for the Amsterdam-based social enterprise, BYCS, where I represent Metro Atlanta as part of a global consortium of bicycle mayors. He recently […]
Meet Susan Stokhof, Bicycle Mayor of Victoria, Canada
photo courtesy of Susan Stokhof Meet Susan Stokhof, whom you’ll often find riding on an upright bike with farmers market finds in her bike basket for a picnic in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia […]
Meet Shelley Carr, Bicycle Mayor of London, Canada
photo courtesy of Shelley Carr Meet Shelley Carr, who doesn’t drive a car. She drove thousands of kilometers a year as part of her work at a Chrysler minivan factory in Canada. But then the […]
Meet Jillian Banfield, Bicycle Mayor of Halifax, Canada
photo courtesy of Jillian Banfield The Macdonald Bridge spans Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia, Canada. It underwent repairs a few years ago. You would not have met Jillian Banfield on it during that time. That’s […]
Traveling at the Speed of Bike 