Mission-Driven Organizations (Local and Otherwise)
The bicycle movement isn’t limited to just riding. It’s also about enacting social change. A wide range of organizations have emerged in recent years to promote justice in the areas of race, climate, gender, sexual orientation, and community. Check out some of the links below to learn how bicycles can act as a vehicle for social change (literally).
- Slow Roll Buffalo (Connecting Communities by Bicycle. WEEKLY RIDES!!)
- East Side Bicycle Club (Supporting Buffalo's biking community through access, community service, and education WEEKLY RIDES!!)
- Adventure Cycling Association (We inspire, empower, and connect a growing community of bicycle travelers)
- BIPOC Bike Adventure Program (An effort to reduce the barriers to bike adventure for BIPOC people)
- Radical Adventure Riders (A movement toward gender inclusivity and racial equality in cycling and the outdoors)
- Melanin Base Camp (Diversity in the outdoors)
- Cyclista Zine (An intersectional feminist response to the cycling industry)
- The Black Foxes (An international collective of unapologetically Black cyclists and outdoors-people that are reclaiming our narratives and roles in the outdoors)
Bicycle Related Videos and Video Libraries
- Bikepacking.com Video Library
- Leave No Trace for Bikepackers (rider responsibility)
Bicycle-Related Readings
- Marc Auge, In Praise of the Bicycle (A philosophical view of the history of the bicycle)
- Jens Voight, Shutup Legs (Autobiography of a long-time team rider)
- Aili McConnon and Andres McConnon, Road to Valor (Biography of Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist and World War II hero)
- Jerry Holl, Downhills Don’t Come Free (First-hand account of riding from Alaska to Mexico)
- Michael McCoy, Cycling the Great Divide (First-hand account of riding more than 3,000 miles from Banff, Alberta to Antelope Wells, New Mexico)
- D.J. Robinson, Cycling Norway (First-hand account of a 2,000 kilometer bikepacking trip)