A world of bicycles:
art, advocacy and innovation.
“Is it not absurd, is it not a disgrace to the inventive age we live in,
to see a man obliged to employ, in order to get through the street,
a great vehicle as large almost as a house?
So let us have the velocipedes.”
—New York Times, 1867
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Bicycle Civil Liberties Union Based in San Francisco, the BCLU is a "network of activists and attorneys working to champion the rights of bicyclists and pedestrians (including people in wheelchairs) on a local, statewide and national level." |
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 Bicycle Forest Stretching the definition of a bicycle, these guys design and rent human-powered vehicles in all shapes and sizes, including the head-turning Couchbike. Also makers of BikeCad frame design software (and all its variants). |
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Bicycle Kitchen The hub of bike culture in Los Angeles. A place to work on your bike; a place to find donated parts for your bike; a place to build your bike (they'll even show you how to do it). |
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Bike Dump A store in Ottowa that goes above and beyond the call of duty to get (and keep) people on bicycles. |
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Bike Out Using the bicycle to build self esteem in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. Sadly, as of February 2006 they are shutting their doors. |
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Bike Show Download or stream the weekly radio show about bicyling from Resonance FM. 
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bikeTV N.Y.-based cable access show revolving around, you guessed it, toaster ovens. |
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C.I.C.L.E. Los Angeles-based, Cyclists Inciting Change Thru Live Exchange is an advocacy group committed to changing the perception of cars being the only viable form of personal transportation. Well, if not cars, then what? Oh. Bicycles. |
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Cars-R-Coffins Bike meets Punk. You may not be welcome if your bike has more than one f-ing speed. |
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Cars Suck! Hardcore, angry bicycle advocacy, with a strong slant toward ridding the world of automobiles. Essays, news, remembrance of cyclists and pedestrians who have been killed by motorists and a penchant for calling out negligent politicians and antagonistic cops. |
 Critical Mass The Critical Mass ride: the granddaddy of bicycle advocacy. In cities across the world, on the last Friday of every month, cyclists take over the streets. Revered and despised by cyclists and non-cyclists alike. More prominent than ever after once-friendly police infiltrated, blocked, beat down and arrested New York massers on the eve of the Republican Convention (at the behest of Mayor Bloomberg). |
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Critical Mass — Santa Monica The Santa Monica contingent of the Critical Mass ride. |
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Cycle Santa Monica A mosh pit of resources pertaining to one of the more progressive cities in Southern California. |
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 FreeWheels Bicycle Defense Fund Started after the New York Critical Mass fiasco in August 2004, FreeWheels is helping cyclists fight back against the continuing harassment (including undercover infiltration) by New York's finest. |
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FugaziDave's photos A collection of amazing bicycling-related pictures (and non-bicycling shots as well). |
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Human Power Institute An information repository for "all parties interested in the technologies and benefits of human power." |
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L.A. County Bike Coalition
The mecca for bicycle resources and advocacy in Los Angeles county. 
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Laura Domela A photographer and artist with a book called Fietsen, which is a series of photographs of Amsterdam bike commuters, in various shapes and sizes, taken from the same apartment window over the course of four days.
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Microcosm Publishing Tons of progressive paraphernalia. A great place to find stickers, pins and patches related to bicycle advocacy. |
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phattire.net Bicycling subculture in Baltimore. Great photography and exhilarating helmet-cam videos. |
 Still We Ride — The Movie A documentary chronicling the evolution of Critical Mass, leading up to the August 2004 disruption and harassment by police in New York. |
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Traffic Cone Preservation Society Dedicated to the traffic cone and its place in history. So generations will never forget. |
 The Treehouse Gallery Artists in Los Angeles with a place in their hearts for bike love. Check out the Bike Summer video. |
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World Carfree Network Growing out of Car Busters magazine, World Carfree Network has liters and liters of resources and information for weening the world off cars. |
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