bicyclism

This is an attempt at a non-formal theoretical approach to bicycles.

Bicycles as a means of primary transportation, as revolutionary tools, as instruments of play, and as a method to increase human contact and awareness of the world around us.

Bicycles are the most efficient mode of transportation ever invented. Their technology will last long after people have forgotten how to maintain the nuclear reactors and computer grids.

Bicycles free people in a way no car ever can. In fact, the masses, ever more incarcerated in their rolling coffins, find their freedoms restricted as they find their bodies confined.

As people become more aware of the reality of their surroundings, perhaps they will get out of their cars, pick up their bicycles, and encounter their world in a more direct manner.

ride safe. ride often. ride everywhere.

bicycle.

THEORY € € € Urban Bicyclism a bicyclist manifesto by the Urban Bicyclist Front Towards a Bicyclist Dictionary Urban Bicyclist Front The Social Ideology of the Motor Car via Reclaim the Streets! [Currently hard to connect to: 17.Sept.98] ARTICLES € € € Automobilists integrate their bodies with a Machine the Michigan Rural Bicycle Survey Cars Drive Me Crazy! Miles Poindexter MISCELLANEOUS € € € The Four Bikemen of the Apocalypse Bicycle Facts Three Velo Statistics

CRITICAL MASS € € € Critical Mass Brochure A core document describing the essentials of Critical Mass and its Manifestations Critical Massing by Paul Lay, short article on how critical mass is really travelling. The UnOfficial Guide To Critical Mass Melbourne Critical Mass San Francisco What happened on 25 July 1997 to 10,000 people...? LINKS € € € The Webbed Bicyclist A page with links to the best bicycle related web sites ChainGuard Bicycle Advocacy Online Road Raging Manual How to rid yourselves of those pesky road-building projects, from England's experiences