Bike Battles

Bikes for Children, Cars for Adults: Postwar Educational Films

Policy and culture locked Americans into climate-changing transportation modes.
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Bikes for Children, Cars for Adults: Postwar Educational Films

Reconsidering the Victory Bike in WWII

Surprisingly, the WWII Victory Bike program hobbled manufacturing and severely limited bicycle use.
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Reconsidering the Victory Bike in WWII

Las Batallas de la Bici

Bike Battles is now in translation as Las Batallas de la Bici by Katakrak Press of Pamplona, Spain.
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Las Batallas de la Bici

Finding Sidepaths

How an enterprising librarian helped me find an obscure source that uncovered new bicycle history -- and how I'm making...
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Finding Sidepaths

A History of Sharing the Road

Bike lanes, busways, sharrows and sidewalks do not represent encroachments on a space that is the exclusive province of the...
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A History of Sharing the Road

Help find 1933 Nichibei Shoten (Fuji) catalog

Dear internet: I need your help. Do you know any Fuji-obsessed collectors?
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Help find 1933 Nichibei Shoten (Fuji) catalog

American Flyers

You may not have noticed, but it's the thirtieth anniversary of the movie American Flyers. Can this Hollywood production tell...
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American Flyers

Not Even Past

I saw strange marks in the asphalt: sharp gouges that looked as if dragons had clawed at the surface of...
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Not Even Past

Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road

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