This little guy is always a breath of fresh air when I go to my polling place to vote, as I did yesterday for the presidential primary here in the United States. He’s a good reminder that we each hold power, even now during this crisis. Especially now. Vote with your ballot, you pedals, your…
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The right to vote
Women gained the right to vote 100 years ago today. The bicycle played a fascinating role in the suffrage movement leading up to that, and this book designed for middle schoolers (but a colorful, fun read for all) is one of my very favorite about it. In honor of the women who came before me,…
How I vote
So my local city’s mayor/city councilor candidate thing is starting to heat up here and I’ve started meeting with those considering running. Just like when this metro-Atlanta ‘burb became the newest city in the USA almost 11 years ago (when I interviewed every candidate re: sustainability), I’ll ask how they meet this (updated) criteria and…
Wait for the red car
Wait for the red car in the video above. I am using #BikeNoodle (which sticks out two-and-a-half feet/about .8 meters from my back bike rack and which the driver did not hit) so that’s actually a legal distance away (unless the three-feet/one meter legal-passage measurement is from the handlebars, which, now that I think about…
Your place of impact
While Traveling at the Speed of Bike yesterday, I passed this artwork and I got to thinking, yet again, how each day we have many votes. We vote with our forks for the food system we want. We vote with our dollars for businesses we want to support. We vote with our pedals for the…
#BikeNoodle update
All footage is from 10/16/18 during my route to and from voting at the library in Dunwoody, Georgia, USA.
The next mayor of Atlanta
Why, yes, that IS me riding Magic down Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn Avenue (where I ride often) in a commercial for Peter Aman, who is a candidate for Atlanta mayor! I’m not quite sure how this happened — I’m just trusting the journey here, folks. I do know I support this gentleman, however. If you…
The final vote
Ah, the beauty of “instantly downloadable to any device” — I’m able to test things and change them on the fly, including different bike styles, photos, colors, fonts, and supporting information for covers for my book, Traveling at the Speed of Bike. It’s not the way traditional marketing used to be done (been there, done…
