The bicycle as cultural agent. Fantastic book and a great post about it here. Read more. National Geographic‘s Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) tells the riveting story of how the two-wheel wonder pedaled forward the emancipation of women in late-nineteenth-century America and radically redefined the [...]
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Wheels of Change: How The Bicycle Empowered Women
Posted: Sunday, May 22, 2011 by greeni in misc, news/events0
It was Sunday the sixth of March and Cyril, Ziai, Manuela, Mia, George, Pablo and Cameron assembled at Castlegate with one common goal – to ride to Cove Bay and a bounty of cheap cider. The first part of the route took them around the Nigg Bay Golf course past the lighthouse. The wind was [...]
Hi lads, This Sunday, we’re heading north-west to the Loch of Skene. Here is the draft route, it might change on the road. Again, get some lunch, it is supposedly sunny, so we will try to have a picnic! We shall see you on Castlegate at eleven. Cyril
Hello! There is a ride on Sunday the 13th of march. We intend to ride to Peterculter. It is basically a picnic ride: we meet up at 11 on CastleGate, ride, have a (rich) meal and see how it goes. Bring whatever you feel like having for lunch. See you, Cyril
Ben, Cameron & Cyril did a two days trip to Inverness the 28-29th of January, which covered about 130 miles. The ambiance was fun, the velocity was great and the landscape dreamy. This is a sign of the good season coming back to Scotland. Which means more and more of those trips will be organised, [...]
Dear Reader, Becycle is moving. We thought that we should use the opportunity to write to you, explain our project a bit more clearly perhaps, and ask for your future support and involvement. So please bear with us while we tell you a bit about ourselves, our history, our mode of operation, our motives and [...]
Dear all, Wouhou! We’re back to life! Drop at the workshop every Wednesday & Saturday between 1 and 3! Kind and friendly greetings and all things good for the coming year, The Becycle folk
hello boys and girls:) we’re having a (christmas) party!!! it’s on December 16 from 7.30pm, venue t.b.a. pleeeease come all and have fun, cookies and mulled wine with us:) cheers, Brigit and Manuela
Meeting Reminder — Friday (October 29th) // 6pm
Posted: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 by greeni in news/eventsDear cyclists and clyclistisses, Dear mechanics, volunteers, admins, activists and other misc freaks, just a reminder this, but an important one: coming Friday (October 29th) @ 6pm the Becycle collective will meet once again at a location in your area! If you are curious about the project, about urban cycling culture in general or similar community schemes, [...]
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Yo guys, we need to know if anybody is interested to come along to this Jousting Tournament at Castle Fraser near Inverurie on the 22nd of August. It’s a proper jousting tournament on horses etc, but they asked us if we would like to take part and perform on the tall bikes. We’d need at [...]
EDINBURGH NOCTURNE 2010 15.00-22.00 (Racing starts at 18.00), Grassmarket, Free to attend Night time urban cycle racing returns to Edinburgh with the second edition of the Edinburgh Nocturne taking place around the Grassmarket on Saturday 3rd July. There is a Facebook group that looks interesting and a Folding bike race (see their website) and plenty [...]
After a pub crawl in Edinburgh, just before dropping off a friend I haven’t seen in eight years at the airport, we grabbed a last burger somewhere near the meadows. The guy in front of me dropped a penny which I picked up for him and in exchange he gave me a flyer to the [...]
Thursday Night Ride ‘Alleycat special’ (Thursday March 25th) We are going to meet as usual at 9pm at corner of Elphinstone lawn/Hall. We will then hand out a checkpoint list and a Map of the city of Aberdeen which will lead you on a nice tour, to cool, somewhat hidden and unknown places around town. The Idea [...]
What is it all about? The idea is simple. The aim of Le Tour d’ Aberdeen is attempting to complete a sponsored cycling run from Duthie park to Banchory and back. The event starts at 9:00 in Duthie Park and aims to finish around 17:00 in Duthie Park. There will be a minibus which will [...]
MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO US ALL! THANKS FOR MAKING THIS PROJECT HAPPEN. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ARE ON THEIR BIKES NOW – WUHA! WE SHALL RE-OPEN ON THE 20TH OF JANUARY 2010!
Becycle Society Present: The UK Premiere of the award-winning film documentary, ‘Veer’ as part of ‘Bike Night’ – A night of art, music and urban cycling culture at the skate park. The evening also features visual art installations, local dj-sets and performances from BMXers. It is hoped that the evening will also act as an [...]
Tytti from “PELTONIEMI – MADE-TO-ORDER” (www.tyttipeltoniemi.com), a wee fashion and desgin shop up on Chattan Place, is promoting Becycle and the Becycle cause with these amazing handmade shopping bags. How cool is that? Go check out her fantastic shop if you are around – and give her a hug. (prints on the bags done by [...]
Hi all, A warm welcome to all the new Becyclers of ’09, and of course to all of those re-offending! I hope you’ve all had a great summer and are ready to hit the books for the upcoming year. But when you’re not hitting the books we’ve got some pretty awesome events coming up for [...]
Morning! We’ll be up and running from Wednesday, September 30 , next week. We need to tidy up a little and get ourselves organised after a busy summer. If you’re up for volunteering and want to get involved in running the workshop and the bicycle lending please get in touch or watch out for the meeting that should be coming up soon (will be [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen: T-SHIRTS!! Luckily, we got to know this cool fellow Lloyd a couple of weeks ago, an RGU arts student who has his own printing machines (I’d link your website here Lloyd – if it would be online already ;). He’ll do all our printing stuff in the future. So just email us for now if you want [...]
A couple of weeks passed since Robin and I cycled off to the Huntly Slow Down on the beCyCle tall bikes. I still keep thinking about that little tour: Aberdeen – Huntly, 50 miles on wee back roads, leaving a wave of joy behind us – even the cow herdes started running along when we [...]
There are still a few days of Bike Week left – so what’s happening? EVERY DAY ========= Remember the commuter challenge is still open – cycle to your place of work and study, register your journey with ACF and you could win £200 http://www.aberdeencycleforum.org.uk/?pf=bw09/bw09_entry.php SAT 20 JUNE =========== CTC Grampian “open ” rides – a [...]
ACF is proud to present, for one night only, THE FLYING SCOTSMAN ACF proudly presents The Flying Scotsman (Germany/UK 2006, 102 min). The docu-drama of Graeme Obree, champion cyclist, who overcame personal adversity, ill health and obstructive officialdom in the cycling establishment, to emerge as one of, if not the, leading time-triallist of his day. [...]
The Huntly SLOW DOWN a festival full of slow and car-free events 19-21 June
