“Four Paws, Two Wheels” — the 11th volume of Taking the Lane quarterly feminist bike zine — is out. Or it’s about to be. I was in the Bay Area last week for the always extra awesome SF Zine Fest; on the second day Amy of 1984 Printing dropped by my table looking a little […]

Kelli Refer is going on tour at the end of August to promote her new book, Pedal, Stretch, Breathe: The Yoga of Bicycling. She’ll be doing readings and teaching yoga workshops throughout the Pacific Northwest. She and her partner, Tom Fucoloro of Seattle Bike Blog, will travel from city by city by bicycle, bus, train, […]

“Four Paws, Two Wheels” is set to be the eleventh issue of Taking the Lane’s quarterly zine…if it’s fully funded by 10am this coming Thursday. Help make that happen over at our Kickstarter project! Here’s a little video Ruby and I made to entice you: There’s always a wide gap between cover art and what […]

Update: Kelli’s book tour is organized! Check out her dates, tell your friends, and get in touch if you’d like to help. Well, this is exciting. The Culinary Cyclist by Anna Brones and Pedal, Stretch, Breathe by Kelli Refer — Our first two books with spines — are coming out right around the same time […]

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 […]

It’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 […]

Since 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 […]

Photo 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 […]

The 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. […]

Photo 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 […]

What’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 […]

A 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 […]

Some of you kind folks have sent concerned emails over the holidays about the Amazon listing for my book, Everyday Bicycling. Thank you. Here’s the background. A spate of one star reviews of the book started to crop up over the weekend (along with a smattering of some 2 through 5 star ones), and their […]