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🔗 Cycling in Cairo: Just use your head

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On the smaller streets riding a bike is a breeze, since you avoid the kind of traffic that bogs down cars. On the bigger streets it is more challenging but general rules apply; take the right side of the road (but leave some space), deal with the other traffic as if you are a slower, smaller car and above all be mindful of your surroundings.

🔗 Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom

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Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs, Wheels of Change transports young readers to bygone eras to see how women used the bicycle to improve their lives. Witty in tone and scrapbook-like in presentation, the book deftly covers early (and comical) objections, influence on fashion, and impact on social change inspired by the bicycle, which, according to Susan B. Anthony, "has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world."

🔗 "Bicycle face": a 19th-century health problem made up to scare women away from biking

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In 1890s Europe and America, bicycles were seen by many as an instrument of feminism: they gave women a measure of increased mobility, began to redefine Victorian ideas about femininity, and were eagerly taken up by many women active in the suffrage movement. Bikes helped stoke dress reform movements, which aimed to reduce Victorian restrictions on clothes and undergarments so women could wear clothes that allowed them to engage in physical activities.

As Munsey’s Magazine put it 1896: "To men, the bicycle in the beginning was merely a new toy, another machine added to the long list of devices they knew in their work and play. To women, it was a steed upon which they rode into a new world."

All this triggered a backlash from many …

🔗 How the bicycle became a symbol of women's emancipation

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The American civil rights leader, Susan B Anthony, wrote in 1896:

"I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood."

🔗 a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally as important to one in a $30,000 car

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Since 1998, Bogotá, Colombia has built more than 300 kilometers of protected bikeways. Streetfilms recently had the chance to explore the city's bike network with the man responsible for building it, former mayor Enrique Peñalosa.

"When we build very high quality bicycle infrastructure, besides protecting cyclists, it shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally as important to one in a $30,000 car," said Peñalosa. And as mayor, he walked the walk, extending the network of protected bikeways to every community.

"He spent all of the money that he had developing public space for pedestrians and bicycles," said Carlos Felipe Pardo from SlowResearch.org. "If you go to other places, you have people in the mud walking but the cars on a perfect road and …

🔗 VanMoof S3

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A €2000 e-bike that offers 'next-generation' technology. Apart from the e-bike technology with a 60-150km battery range and the sleek design where the battery is embedded inside the frame, it offers hydraulic disc brakes, GPS, smartphone app, anti-theft technology and an electronic gear shifter.

All of the above is incredibly impressive but stands against the '[[Just Ride|https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0074QGFES/]]' philosophy and the spirit of bikes that they are essentially simple machines that are accessible and easy to fix. Close up photos show proprietary screws, you can't service these bikes at your local bike shop. These bikes are more of descendant of the motorbike or a Segway.

It is ironic that the brand gained some marketing after their ad was banned in France. The [[ad …

🔗 Touring Mailing list

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This list is about bicycle touring. Common topics of discussion are how to select a touring bicycle, appropriate components and gearing for touring, carrying gear, camping gear, touring routes and locations, reports of previous tours, and everything else