I have a strange soft spot for the little-known city of Spokane, Washington, USA. Years ago, living in Calgary, all of the American channels were fed out of Spokane, since that was the closest American city. So when I got this email from Dee today, I was well chuffed that the city has plans for bettering the environment. But even better, they interview a woman who rides her bike to work everyday.Barb Chamberlain. Role model. Here's an excerpt from the Spokesman Review newspaper. A link to the whole article follows. "Cycling to work isn’t as hard as it sounds, Chamberlain said. It takes her 10 minutes to get to work on her bike, about the same amount of time it takes her to drive. She cycles in her work clothes and keeps a container of baby wipes in her office to freshen up.
“You don’t have to wear Spandex,” Chamberlain said. “I do carry a much smaller purse, though, because it has to fit into my bike bag.”
Sounds like Copenhagen Cycle Chic is spreading... :-)
Here's a link to the article about Barb and the city's intitatives.
Thanks to one of our readers, we’ve made the acquaintance of this Camper Bicycle. It’s the work of the artist Kevin Cyr.
"Camper Bike, a functioning sculptural piece, built in April 2008. A stand alone piece and the subject of a series of paintings."
Brilliant stuff. And why not? After I read about it I figured I'd google 'camper bike' to see if anything else was out there apart from an artist's sculptural piece. I shouldn't have done it... here goes:
These big-arse cargo bikes were a main feature on the streets of Copenhagen and Amsterdam in the first half of the last century. Back when bicycle messengers were men. :-)
