[Ebbc-Talk] How A Minority Biking Group Raises The Profile Of Cycling : Code Switch : NPR July 1 2013

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/07/01/197416434/minority-cyclists-black-women-bike

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Members of Black Women Bike: DC consult a map while on the road at an event in June 2011.
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Flip open any cycling magazine and you might think only skinny, good-looking, white people ride bikes. But increasingly that doesn't reflect the reality. Communities of color are embracing cycling. And as a fast-growing segment of the cycling population, they're making themselves far more visible.

There's a story that Veronica O. Davis likes to tell about why she started a cycling group for black women. She was pedaling past a public housing complex near her Washington, D.C., neighborhood one day when a young black girl shouted to her mother, "Mommy, mommy, it's a black lady on a bike."

"At first I was like, 'Why is she so excited?' And I realized I'm probably the first cyclist that she saw who looked like her," said Davis.


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