Urban Bicycle

Bike culture is exploding in cities like Portland, OR, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Montreal, and Vancouver, BC. Whether or not folks are riding folding bikes to the commuter train, slipping through visitors on streamlined single speeds, or carrying children and groceries on their cargo bikes, bicycles are creating urban daily life more dynamic and enjoyable — basically much better.

Amy Walker has been at the forefront of this trend as cofounder of Momentum magazine, which chronicles and inspires urban bike culture and transportation cycling. In On Bicycles, she gathers a broad-ranging group of cycling writers to explore the ways that biking can alter, and is changing, people’s lives. From utility bikes that are getting to be the primary mode of transportation for complete households to the artistic creations of freakbike riders, On Bicycles has a thing for everyone who has ever ridden a bike.

Subjects incorporate:

* cargo bikes * bike events * a history of bike advocacy
* the bike-craft boom * folding bikes * recumbents * biking with children
* handmade bikes * auto-cost-free streets * relocalizing * bike style
* collective bike stores * ladies and bikes * and many far more