Jezebel: Bikes

All The Bike Safety Tips A Kid Could Need, In Convenient Rap Form

Whitney Jefferson — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:15:00 EDT

What we have here is a silly '90s rap about bike safety. The tips are fairly obvious — "ride straight in a line," "don't swerve in front of cars," and "don't ride on handlebars!" And what's the most important rule of all? "Wear your helmet every single time you ride, strap it on, kids, wear your helmet with pride!" See, it's easy to remember because it rhymes! More »

Women Increasingly Buying Motorcycles, Starring in Freedom-Themed Montages

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:50:43 EDT

In this era of inside voices, Netflix Instant, and the infinite staying-in-excuses the Internet offers, some women are choosing instead to seek freedom and adventure outside, on the seat of a motorcycle. Yes, women are climbing onto hogs from coast to coast in record numbers, and not from the vantage point of sitting behind some dude who is driving them around; the number of female motorcycle owners increased 52% from 2003 to 2008. It's positively trendy to be badass! More »

Ladies Who Ride Bikes Should Never Forget They Could Be Cleaning Instead

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:41:00 EDT

The tough leather jacket in this ad for Huffy Bikes reads, "Eat My Dust Bunnies." It's one in a series of "Moms On Bikes" ads; the other reads, "Rebel Without A Minivan." Cleaning and carpooling: What women are all about! More »

Thong Bike-Seat Covers. Yes.

Sadie Stein — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:17:00 EDT

Insert some joke about how mom always said to wear clean underwear in case of an accident... These seat covers were a promotion by an Amsterdam lingerie store; they should stay clean for at least one commando ride. More »

Pink & Carey Put Their Wheels In Motion

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:49:00 EDT

[Santa Monica, October 1. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]

Biker Babe In London

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:16:00 EDT

[London, August 31. Actress and model Kelly Brook, rides a bicycle as she poses for the photographer during a photo-op to publicize the upcoming London's Bicycle Ride. Image via AP]

— Kelly Cutrone

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:30:00 EDT

who loves barreling down the bike lanes of New York City. [NY Times] More »

Bicycle Built For Roo

Anna Holmes — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:10:00 EST

[Cumnock, Australia; January 24. Image via Getty]

Vogue's Eco Economics

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:20:00 EDT

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As discussed, Vogue's "green" issue is more about cash than the environment. So even though Cammie Diaz is wearing organic cotton on the cover, the last page features a $5,900 bike with $975 "basket." More »

Oh, The Womanity

Anna Holmes — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:10:00 EDT

[Douglas, Isle of Man; June 8. Image via Getty]

Women Avoid Cycling Due To "Helmet Hair" • Ex-Mormon Gives $1M To Support Gay Marriage

Maria — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:40:00 EDT

• According to a survey commissioned by Cycling England, 58% of English women don't ride their bike to work because they don't want to arrive sweaty and 27% avoid riding because they don't want "helmet hair." • On Thursday, Tennessee State University gave degrees to 10 black students (3 of them posthumously) that the University had previously expelled after the students were arrested as part of the Freedom Riders in the '60s. • A former Mormon in Utah (and founder of WordPress!) responded to calls from the Mormon church urging him to support a proposition to outlaw gay marriage in California by giving $1 million to a group opposing the proposition.• More »

Miley Cyrus & Her Dad Are On A Roll

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:10:00 EDT

Patriotic Nudists

Maria — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:30:00 EDT

An Oregon woman plans to ride her bicycle while topless in the Ashland Fourth of July Parade. Jen Moss, known around Ashland as "The Naked Lady," stated her plans to ride in the parade in an online posting, saying she will be wearing "only a hemp G-string and blowing a conch shell." Ouch! If we can remember correctly from our hemp anklet-making experiences in summer camp, hemp is not the softest fabric in the world, is it? Ashland has some lenient nudity laws which state that one must only cover the genitalia in public, but the Ashland Chamber of Commerce is saying they don't want Moss to be showing her nude (and probably well-tanned) body in the "family" parade. Moss says if she isn't allowed to ride, she'll sue. If she's known as "The Naked Lady," her bare breasts are probably nothing new to that town. Let the woman ride! [CBS News] More »

Hey Ladies, Let's Talk About Our Cycles

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Over on Salon, Rachel Shukert is writing about bicycles. "A bicycle is a perfect machine: simple, elegant and efficient. It does exactly what it needs to do, whenever it needs to do it," she writes. And "there's a convincing case… that the bicycle advanced the cause of women's liberation more than any other inanimate object." General interest magazine Mental Floss explains that "the Victorian lady rarely exercised or engaged in physical activity, which left her poorly conditioned." But when the bicycle took off in the late 1800s, "There was no reason a woman couldn't get on a bike and sedately pedal farther from her home than she'd ever been before." There have been some disparaging remarks regarding cyclists on this site, but shouldn't we all be biking more? More »