Bicycle Culture

Bicycle Flash Mob Orlando Video

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May 7, 2011
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Enjoy the video of yesterday's Mayor's Bike To Work Day, led by Orlando's Buddy Dyer from Infusion Tea in College Park, through downtown, to City Hall.
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This Wasn’t Supposed to Happen

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April 29, 2011
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Seriously! I didn’t intend to have a mindset change or get this involved.  All I wanted to do was ride my bicycle back and forth to work to save on fuel costs and ride for fun. My Beginning Flashback to my start, My Own Ignorance for those that may need the history.  This was a time of...
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Bicycle Flash Mob Orlando — May 6

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April 21, 2011
Bicycle Flash Mob Orlando — May 6

Join Bike/Walk Central Florida and be a part of history! Take an hour out of your Friday morning, May 6, to be part of Orlando’s first, and maybe only videotaped bicycle flash mob. We’re trying to get 1,000 cyclists – in plain street clothes, no spandex, to ride four blocks with us (any old...
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roads or people?

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April 4, 2011

Dear Senator Simmons, I live in your district and I wanted to let you know what I thought about a particular budget issue. The newspapers are full of things that are proposed to be cut, but they never say much about what will stay pretty much intact. Today I discovered that while...
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Bikes Make a Difference

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March 31, 2011

Pedals for Progress, Bikes Not Bombs, Re~Cycle, Bikes for the World (any more?) plus many local organizations – they all have the right idea.  Bikes make a difference everywhere.  
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The Bicycling Apocalypse: A Manifesto of Liberation Over Segregation

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March 7, 2011
The Bicycling Apocalypse: A Manifesto of Liberation Over Segregation

Bicycling in the United States suffers from a failure of imagination. Failures of imagination usually grow out of a sense that the current situation is unchangeable. Cultures often create such a sense of inevitability inadvertently, but in some cases it’s due to an intentional effort by some to maintain the status quo.
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Boy cyclist attacked by man and daughter in pickup truck in DeKalb

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March 5, 2011

From Atlanta’s Journal Constitution: A 45-year-old man is facing a simple battery charge in DeKalb County after he was accused of shoving a boy on a bicycle who asked him to put away his cellphone, according to a media report Friday. Brody Hartley, 13, told Channel 2 Action News that he was nearly sideswiped...
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8 Customers per Parking Space

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March 4, 2011
8 Customers per Parking Space

“We are traffic! Let’s eat!” said Brad. It was raining steadily, but all the ride leaders showed up for the First Friday ride. Of course, only the ride leaders were there. We decided food and beer sounded better than leading ourselves on a 10 mile ride, so we headed directly down Mills to Bananas. Just...
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Why Anti-Car Measures Keep Failing

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March 2, 2011

Bureaucrats can’t change the way we drive … but they keep trying By: Fred Barnes Weekly Standard For most Americans—make that most of mankind—the car is an instrument of mobility, flexibility, and speed. Yet officials in Washington, transportation experts, state and local functionaries, planners, and transit...
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Rap the Bike!

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February 25, 2011
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Via The Huffington Post Wafalme’s ‘Me And My Bike’: Teens From Kenya Slums Rap About Bicycles (VIDEO)
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