“Bike Mary”

@rebelwithoutacar.com

Living carfree in Greenville, SC since 2015. Cat mom & kitten fosters. Volunteer for @bikewalkgvl. Usually on a bike.

Enjoyed presenting with Village Wrench and @bikewalkgvl.org this morning about basics of Bike maintenance! If you are in Greenville SC, come join the next presentation focused on Bike commuting on 11/7! If you’re elsewhere, check out the free classes and/or other cool stuff at your local library 💚

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Kinda forgot to post for awhile.. I work for a school district, so every summer I do a big cycling trip. This year I did a solo tour from Zurich to Copenhagen to check out some of the famous cycling infrastructure I’ve wanted to see for years. City recaps are on IG reels, drop your questions!

Never forget, when you’re being asked to prove that safe bike-lanes or pedestrian crossings across unsafe conditions are ‘needed,’ it's hard to justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a raging river.

A separated bike-lane in downtown Vancouver filled with people on bikes

Idk who needs to hear this, but we are only 2 weeks away from Daylight Savings Time. At the rate time has been moving lately, it will only feel like 34 years have passed by the time March 9 rolls around. Onward!

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

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“It is America as democracy that I love and respect… America as empire does not have my consent… and we will continue to discover and claim that the true American, the patriotic American, is still a revolutionary.” (Stuart Taylor, Retracing the Keowee Trail)

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African American inventor Isaac R. Johnson patented the folding bicycle frame in 1899, "so that it can be compactly stored -- as, for example, in trunks or compartments, or other small places, or conveniently carried, as in elevators, cars, or the like." 🎉February is Black American History Month🎉

Grainy, black and white photo of a person in a suit, white shirt and tie with a mustache. Several sources say this is black American inventor Isaac R. Johnson, from Wisconsin, born in the middle of the 19th century before the Civil War. Johnson also invented turn signals for cars and a kind of folding fire escape.United State Patent Office, Bicycle Frame Patent No. 634,823 Figure 1. showing the bicycle frame, and signatures.

Full patent copy at https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/25/8d/74/941d0ae8d58528/US634823.pdfUnited State Patent Office, Bicycle Frame Patent No. 634,823 showing the component parts of the folding bicycle frame, plus signatures.

Full patent copy at https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/25/8d/74/941d0ae8d58528/US634823.pdfUnited State Patent Office, Bicycle Frame.
"for a bicycle frame that can be made separable so that it can be compactly stored -- as, for example, in trunks or compartment or other small places, or conveniently carried, as in elevators, cars, or the like."

Full patent copy at https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/25/8d/74/941d0ae8d58528/US634823.pdf