Why I Ride:
The Art of Bicycling in New York

A prayer to our lady of perpetual pedaling / Reverend Billy [Bill Talen]
Cycletherapy (curator's essay) / Carol A. Wood
Passionate participation (curator's essay) / Elizabeth Stuelke
Whose streets? Our streets! / Rosie Mendez
Bicycling is the city solution / Paul Steely White
No cyclist left behind / Jim Zisfein
Connecting for good / Wendy E. Brawer
Biking in the bad old days / Charlie McCorkell
Family values: the benefits of bike commuting / Charles Komanoff
Flying free / Natalya Brill
Not just kid stuff / Rich Krollman
Grand theft bicycle / Michele Herman
Bike club advocacy: forward and backward / Annaline Dinkelmann
From grit to greenway / Menaka Mohan
A path to Brooklyn / Meg Fellerath
The bridges of New York: a panoramic day trip / Alfredo Garcia
30,000 maniacs? or, The five boro bike tour / Natalia Lincoln
How to put on bicycle events for a living: a user's manual / Glen Goldstein
The story of Trackstar / Patty Bowman
Community release program: the FreeWheels Bicycle Defense Fund / Gwen Kash
The accidental bike activist / Matthew Roth
A view from the streets / The Time's Up! Video Collective
Stillness pursued / Joshua P. Rechnitz
Taking flight: my road to bike racing / Reed Rubey
Up, down, and around: the Bear Mountain Classic / Anthony O'Malley
My tribe / Bob Nelson
Biking is like Christmas / Nadette Stasa
Cyclists are missing the real, authentic New York experience / Richard Rosenthal
NYC bike advocacy: a preliminary timeline

Catalogue design by Katie Estes and Mike Green

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