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The cycling movement in this country is gaining momentum, yet it's still predominantly male. So how do we get more women on bikes, and help females to feel more comfortable riding for transportation in their daily lives? Author Elly Blue is joining us today to talk about women and bikes.
Tour de France officials have revealed that they've "discussed" adding an equivalent women's event to the yearly biking race, reports Bloomberg. This news comes a few weeks after a group of competitive female cyclists started a Change.org petition, which now has almost 70,000 signatures.
Editor's note: We were misinformed regarding the nature of Michael Murray's story. It is fiction — maybe some weird genre of anti-Gosling fanfic? We don't even know, but we sure as hell regret the error.
After going into labor, 41-year-old Susie Weber bicycled one mile to a Wisconsin hospital. Weber had already biked to 10 of her prenatal appointments and says, "[I] enjoyed every minute of the ride, even when I was having a contraction."
[New York, November 10. Image via INFDaily.]
[Santa Monica, October 1. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]
George Bliss, who owns Hudson Urban Bikes in a posh part of New York City says of women: "They are my best customers."
[New York, August 31. Image via INFDaily.]
A young woman in shorts, biking down a city-designated lane. Liberated enthusiast of a healthy, environmentally-friendly transportation — or flagrant hussy? Well, it's complicated.
Due to budget cuts, Photoshop-defending Self editor Lucy Danziger is now biking to work — in Tory Burch. Expect new features on using unsold magazines as free weights, and how laying off employees is great for the glutes. [NYT]
Because that's where cycles go… er… come from. [Vintage Ads]
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…
