Found about this project here: www.2wheels4girls.com.

A woman is traveling China by bike to bring basic education to girls. From the About section:

Americans are very fortunate to have access to affordable and often free education. If it had not been for Eleanor’s public school education, state funded education, supportive parents, and motivational mentors – she may not be where she is today. Of course, it also helps that she was born and raised in a country when gender roles were broken down before she was born. Her intentions are not to change other countries traditions or gender roles, but maybe just give them an insight of what a young girl’s full potential could be. We are more than just a homemaker, wife/girlfriend, child bearer.

Also, traveling by bicycle through a country where owning and driving a car is a sign of wealth and prosperity – hopefully people will see how wonderful traveling by bike can be.

Check out her Travel Blog!

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As always, Bike Farm meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 7pm at the Bike Farm. All are welcome and the meeting is completely open.

Follows are the notes from this passed Tuesday’s meeting:

Agenda:

Memberships for next door

ISP issues

covering Monday shift

Landlord/lease issues.

Sponsorships/grants.

Added items.

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Found this over at Clevercycles. I’ll post a bit here:

Man on a bicycle can go three or four times faster than the pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process. He carries one gram of his weight over a kilometer of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man’s metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

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The invention of the ball-bearing signaled a fourth [transport] revolution. This revolution was unlike that, supported by the stirrup, which raised the knight onto his horse, and unlike that, supported by the galleon, which enlarged the horizon of the king’s captains. The ball-bearing signaled a true crisis, a true political choice. It created an option between more freedom in equity and more speed. The bearing is an equally fundamental ingredient of two new types of locomotion, respectively symbolized by the bicycle and the car. The bicycle lifted man’s auto-mobility into a new order, beyond which progress is theoretically not possible. In contrast, the accelerating individual capsule enabled societies to engage in a ritual of progressively paralyzing speed.

The monopoly of a ritual application over a potentially useful device is nothing new. Thousands of years ago, the wheel took the load off the carrier slave, but it did so only on the Eurasian land mass. In Mexico, the wheel was well known, but never applied to transport. It served exclusively for the construction of carriages for toy gods. The taboo on wheelbarrows in America before Cortes is no more puzzling than the taboo on bicycles in modern traffic.

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Interesting video I found on BikePortland about one woman’s review (along with others) of the new NYC 1st Ave. bike lane and how wrong they did it. Brings up all he issues of bike lanes in favor and not, check it out!

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Everyone is welcome to come and participate in our bi-weekly meetings.  Tonights meeting starts at 7 at Bike Farm.

Here is the agenda:

Shop Talk

Amendment to passed proposal for skill-share’s at special session meeting. -Adam

Proposal for wheel building workshops. -Adam

operating manual presentation and feedback – Momoko