The Wheels Of Revolution: How The Bicycle Changed Women's Lives
The importance of the bicycle in the lives of women cannot be overstated
She's riding a bubble gum pink beach cruiser the size of a Plymouth on the shoulder of a busy road. I'm running interference on my bike, riding slightly behind and slightly to the right of my teenage daughter as sort of a human buffer, lest she be bothered by two tons of speeding metal to my left. Knowing how to ride a bike in traffic is, to my mind, a necessary precursor to knowing how to drive in traffic when the time comes. There are rules. You must follow them, or bad things could happen. These little excursions of ours out into the world beyond our tree lined neighborhood streets are a step, a step toward further independence, because once you can ride safely in traffic, the only thing keeping you from practically unlimited …
Patty
5:27 pm on Thursday, March 24, 2011
The neighborhood kids threw it up there. more ›