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So, a collegue of mine spent 90 days cycling through the USA, from East to West. He tells Americans hate cyclists (all Dutch folks/for that matter) because they consider them to be 'left'. They even seem to have a tailpipe soot button to annoy them if they don't have an Americans flag on display somewhere on the bike.
WUT?
#USA #Bikes #Left
#USA #bikes #left

Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."

This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s, via @fietsprofessor.

The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today.

Better choices instead of excuses.

#Dutch #cities #cars #bikes #streets

Car-jammed Amsterdam street in the 1970’s
#dutch #cars #streets #bikes #cities #amsterdam

Cycles of Life, by Grant Snider

#GrantSnider #bikes

A cartoon entitled "Cycles of Life" Frame 1: Idyllic Youth (a child riding a tricycle) Frame 2: Awkward Adolescence (a teen riding a too-small bike while listening to headphones) Frame 3: Experimental Phase (a young man riding a penny farthing bike with a handlebar basket) Frame 4: Courtship (a young man riding a tandem bike with a young woman, who has been given a rose) Frame 5: Parenthood (a man riding a bike with a child in a bike trailer and a stuffed animal in a back rack basket; both the man and the child are wearing helmets) Frame 6: Midlife Crisis (a man wearing a bandana and long hair is riding a custom frame bike with a very high seat and bars) Frame 7: Retirement (an older man wears a helmet riding a recumbent bike) Frame 8: Eccentric Old Age (an old man with a long gray beard, dark sunglasses, and a cane, is riding a unicycle while wearing a bowler hat, with a parrot on his shoulder)
#bikes #grantsnider

This actually isn’t surprising at all, but it still needs to said over & over — the biggest barrier to more urban biking in cities is the fear of cars.

“A study confirms that if we are serious about getting people on bikes, they need a safe place to ride.”

Via @lloydalter #TreeHugger #bikes #cities #urbanism #cars #BikeLanes
treehugger.com/fear-of-cars-bi…

Person on bike riding on bike-lane next to river in city

Biggest Barrier to Biking Is the Fear of Cars

If we are serious about getting people on bikes, they need a safe place to ride.
Lloyd Alter (Treehugger)
#cars #bikes #urbanism #cities #bikelanes #treehugger @Lloyd Alter

Remember this? A simple, creative way to make the really important point about the need for child-safe, all-ages & abilities PROTECTED bike-paths. Paint isn’t safe infrastructure, any more than stuffed animals are — if you wouldn’t let your kids ride in it, it isn’t safe, Period. #Berlin via @umwerfer.

#LetKidsBike #Urbanism #BikeLanes #Cities #transportation #bikes #cars #city #kids #car

Kids riding bikes in bike-lanes defined by a row of stuffed animals in Berlin, Germany
#transportation #Berlin #cars #bikes #urbanism #car #cities #bikelanes #kids #city #LetKidsBike @Daniel

There's bike infrastructure, and then there’s Dutch bike infrastructure.
#Hovenring, the World's 1st suspended bike path roundabout (although some Norwegians I know dispute that…)
#cities #BikeLanes #urbanism #bikes #Dutch
#dutch #bikes #urbanism #cities #bikelanes #hovenring

Kia ora toot friends. (Hello in Māori language)
Tonight I am bringing some #transport, #bikes, #cycling, #urbanism and #antiCar #memes.
I hope you enjoy them and are radicalised like I am. Once you start seeing how we've been trapped by #carDependency you cannot unsee it again.
Let's fight for space for people, cities that are walkable, accesible, clean, green and safe.
Of course, please contribute your own memes to the thread and also radicalise your family, workmates and friends!
Cartoon illustration of a traffic jam, all de angry looking drivers are hares (rabbits) glaring at a happy looking tortoise passing them all while riding on its red pushbike.
#cycling #transport #bikes #urbanism #antiCar #memes #carDependency

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