Remember the days when gas was under a dollar a gallon, half your paycheck didn’t go to buying milk, and water came out of the tap instead of plastic bottles? Remember that Christmas morning you woke up to find Santa had been listening all year and finally you had that new bike you’d been begging for? I must have worn out two or three growing up. There would be days where I circled the entire town on that bike. Eventually though I did what everyone else does when the time comes…I trade those two tire in for four and never looked back.
Fast forward 17 years and I’m surprised that a number of people my age are going back to those old bikes in an effort to cut down on gas cost and maybe even help the spread of Global Warming. Tired of paying $40-$50 every time they visit the pump, commuters all across the country are looking for alternate ways to cut back on oil and gas consumption. Websites are popping up all over the place featuring ideas, tips, and bike trips for those that like to ride in groups.
The ReCYCLEry in a non-profit organization out of Carrborro, NC. that promotes cycling as an alternate source of transportation, plus goes as far as giving tips on how to repair bikes.
The Durham Bike Co-op holds events for bikers every weekend around Durham, NC.
ProBicycle is using the power of the Internet to promote bike safety. The also runs a tally of the number of bicycles being produced every second.
Ken Kifer’s Bike Pages attempts to encourage others to go back to two-wheel transportation by highlighting the environmental, physical, and mental effects of riding.
Bike Commute Tips is a blog written by Paul Dorn out of California. Paul is a huge bike enthusiast and writes a few times a week about the surge of people putting down their car keys and picking up their handle bars as a way to get around town.
Bikeleague.org is a bicycling advocacy site, which has a membership of over 300,000!! Originally founded as the League of American Wheelmen in the late 1800’s, the site gives the latest news on cycling related issues being discussed by the government, areas around the country that are bike friendly, and encourages people to push for safer transportation laws.
Will this new wave of bicycling activism eventually lead to death of gas powered transportation? Of course not, but what many hope it will lead to is a world filled with fewer health problems, a lower dependence on oil, and a decrease in Global Warming. Now excuse me while I go take a spin around the block.
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