The Life-Sized City Blog

Here's a poster promoting cycling in New York for www.bikemonthnyc.com . My friend Kelly sent it to me and I think I'll let him do all the talking: Thought you might like this poster - if only for the socio-political landmine it tiptoes through. We have: - bikes prominently featured (Ride a bike message: check) - the older gent, middle-age woman, younger woman (Target age groups: check) - race/gender diversity (Diversity advocates: check) - gent with his helmet (Helmet advocates: check) - ladies not wearing helmets (anti-helmet advocates: check) - all walking their bikes on sidewalks (ride safely advocates: check; bonus points for appeasing both helmet and anti-helmet camp at the same time) - speed of bike transport highlighted (urban transportation advocates: check) - outer borough (Brooklyn) featured (hipsters: check) The only thing missing is someone actually riding a bike. But I suppose that's to be inferred. It's for Bike Month NYC, but if you're planning on...

Copenhagenize is proud to launch an exciting new intiative today! With all of these Bike to Work Days/Weeks/Months proliferating on the internet we thought we'd take it to the next level. In a classic case of oneupmanship, we're proud to be the official sponsor of the launch of: Bike Century! For obvious reasons Copenhagenize was unable to sponsor the first Bike Century - one of the most successful events of any kind in human history. Launched in the 1880's it was scheduled to run until 1999. Unfortunately, the rise of the automobile rained on the parade and the event petered out all over the world in the 1950's, despite a fantastic start over the first 60-70 years. There was a brief revival in the early 1970's but people just didn't seem to be involved in the event anymore. Now we're launching the second Bike Century which encompasses a family of events including Bike to Work Century / Bike to the Cinema Century / Bike to the Supermarket Century / Bike to t...