Ms. Dailey identifies four chief types of “ladies burning rubber out
there”: the Fashion Victim, whose outfits harmonize with her trendy
neo-vintage wheels;
the Speed Demon with extraterrestrial helmet and sleek, Matrixy gear (like Gwyneth Paltrow); the Earth Mother, who careers toward farmers’
markets with her baby bobbing precariously in the front basket; and the
Retro Rider in Steampunk get-up, whose vehicle “weighs more than a
cement-mixer.” BeyoncĂ© Knowles is a devoted urban biker who relishes the anonymity a
bike gives her when she’s in public. “By the time they realize it’s me,
I’m already gone,” she says. The suffragist Susan B. Anthony
declared that bicycling “has done more to emancipate women than
anything else in the world,” and the novelist Iris Murdoch called the
bicycle “the most civilized conveyance known to man.” Albert Einstein,
though not a woman, gets a pat on the head because he came up with his
theory of relativity while riding his bicycle at night. Comment by velo Mondial: He must have had great cycle infrastructure guding him, as his mind clearly was not on the road. Read on in The New York Times.
The War On Cars: Community Board 99
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