Photo via Flickr user Olgierd (Creative Commons) Update: We are moving a bit slower than planned, so there is a one week grace period on the deadline. You’ve got ’til August 8th to get submissions (writing and art) in for this issue. It’s time for Taking the Lane #12! The topic this quarter is Religion […]
Call for submissions: Bicycling and religion
Delicious food on two wheels: The Culina...
Posted onIt’s a delicious pleasure to announce the upcoming release of The Culinary Cyclist, a hedonistic cookbook and guide to good living concocted by Anna Brones, a Swedish Portlander currently living in Paris. True to form, we’re funding it on Kickstarter. You can preorder a copy or two of the book and also pick up some […]
Breaking: Bike infrastructure debate off...
Posted onMunicipal leaders, advocates, and engineers in cities from Toronto to Tulsa, take note: The absurd debate about whether or not investing in bicycle-friendly streets is good for cyclists (and everyone else) is over. Done. Kaput. No longer deserving of a moment of your attention. This debate has divided and distracted bicycle advocates for decades. I […]
Getting a Spine: Pedal, Stretch, Breathe...
Posted onSince it came out last August, Kelli Refer’s zine Pedal, Stretch, Breathe: The Yoga of Bicycling has been a runaway bestseller. We talked about doing a second edition right away, not realizing how soon it would be needed. And sure enough, the original is nearly out of print (any day now). The good news is […]
Events this week in Portland and Seattle
Posted onHi everyone! I’ll get back to regular posting here one of these days, but for now I am dabbling in the old-fashioned art of “analog blogging.” This arcane art can take many forms; in the next week it will involve appearing in various venues and either having conversations or delivering remarks, respectively. The first event […]
Call for submissions: Dogs on bicycles
Posted onPhoto courtesy of Multnomah County Library Dog people, bicycle people, and feminists, unite! Oh wait, it appears that you already have. A couple of months ago my friend Sara, pictured above, informed me, “If you really want a bestseller, do an issue of Taking the Lane about dogs.” I may or may not have laughed […]
Bikes in Space is ready for liftoff
Posted onThe next issue of Taking the Lane, and our first foray away from nonfiction, is an anthology of feminist sci fi stories about bikes. It’s titled “Bikes in Space,” and you can get your hands on a copy as well as helping make sure it actually gets printed by backing it on Kickstarter right here. […]
Question Time: Help write my new Bicycli...
Posted onToday my first post for Bicycling Magazine went up, titled “An Invitation to the Party,” in which I remind us all to make biking feel fun and special, like the party everyone wishes they were at, rather than the wholesome and serious duty participation the bike movement or even just a bike ride can at […]
Women on Bikes Mean Business: Heading to...
Posted onDespite years of immersion in all things bicycle, I have yet to partake in the annual circus known as the National Bike Summit. This year, that’s changing. Next week I head out to DC, a trail of giant carbon footprints in my wake, to join the fun. The NBS is a festival of wonkery, consisting […]
Biking with Kids in the Snow
Posted onThe whys and hows of bicycling Seattle’s hills in the snow with two young kids in tow.
What does "feminist" mean anyway, and Di...
Posted onSubmission guidelines for Taking the Lane, and the sliding scale pricing gap for the ninth issue, Disaster!
Call for submissions: Bikes in Space
Posted onPhoto credit: Cyclecide I’ve been planning to mark the tenth issue of Taking the Lane’s quarterly journal about bicycling and empowerment with something really special. An ode to the best bike cities, interviews with the most inspiring bike visionaries, essays by bicycle thought leaders of our time. Something like that. The topics for these issues […]
Rebranding
Posted onWhat’s a brand? I’m getting a crash course in this right now. It’s a bunch of adjectives that rule your world. It’s asking the people who believe in you what they see and then giving it back to them in an elegant structure, more than the sum of its parts. It’s a mood more than […]
The Art of Funny Amazon Reviews
Posted onA few days before Christmas, I decided on a whim to solicit funny one star reviews for my new book, Everyday Bicycling. The book’s listing on Amazon went from 2 to 34 reviews in a relatively short period of time, most of them single star send-ups of the online review form. My reverse astroturfing campaign […]