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 💚
“Bike Mary”
@rebelwithoutacar.com
Living carfree in Greenville, SC since 2015. Cat mom & kitten fosters. Volunteer for @bikewalkgvl. Usually on a bike.
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!
Take it from someone with a long backlog of podcasts to catch up on… this one is particularly worth a listen.
“Every single week, we get two or three emails, funeral arrangements for this guy, funeral arrangements for this guy.” It’s been 25 years since 9/11, but some first responders and survivors are still navigating the medical consequences. The program meant to help them has been unstable for decades.
Halloween 2025… and 24, 22 and 21. Which one is the best?
View from my bikepacking route last night. And I’m supposed to just.. fly home tomorrow?? 😭😭
Angelic triplets or a triple threat? Fostering kittens in the busiest month of the year bc why not 😹 anyone in Greenville SC looking to adopt lmk!
Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States: Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Netherlands New Zealand United Kingdom
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.
meeting fellow advocates in our state >>> I had a great time showing @rebelwithoutacar.com around the ‘Burg!
Currently on a 575 mile bike tour around Upstate SC and the best part is meeting internet people IRL 🙌 love how bikes bring us together!!
@rebelwithoutacar.com highlight of my day was running into you! Thanks for the sticker!!
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.”
“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)
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🎉
Ok now I’ll brag, I changed my 🦋handle to match my domain. Guess I should actually update that website I bought a decade ago 😂
To be silent while witnessing oppression is to side with the oppressor. To side with the oppressor is cowardice.
Finally read this after years of people telling me to - when I tell you I *bawled* by the end I am not kidding 🥹🥹😭😭
Not to brag but I finished setting up my profile and added a picture 💅 anyway, hope you like cats