Publik Bike Station

02/15/2023

“You are one ride away from a good mood.”
Sarah Bentley, British cyclist

07/12/2022

01/18/2022

Because maybe someone really needed to see this photo of my father riding a bike today.

10/14/2021

What a joyous ride to school!

“As back-to-school gets closer, enjoy these Dutch “bicycle buses” transporting 50+ kids getting the kind of exercise that leads to better learning, because they’re not being driven to school adding LOTS of local car traffic. Nijmegen NL video via https://t.co/cwxxLCYnlN”

05/28/2021

Bikes and ART!

Salina Art Center is looking for innovative artists who want to be part of the Smoky Hill River Festival! We need artists to offer hands-on creative projects for teens and young adults from our ARTery Go! bike cart. ARTery Go! is a portable art lab that moves the fun of learning art out of the classroom and into the community. Proposals must be received by June 20, 2021. Past activities have included Selfie Frames, Cyanotypes, Festival Pictionary game, one-man band, 30-second videos, 4-inch watercolor Plein air paintings, cooking demos, and pencil sketching for beginners. Check out our website to learn more: https://www.salinaartcenter.org/artery-go
Submit proposals to Kayla Borell at [email protected]

05/04/2021

Move, get a cash bonus and a BIKE!
Brilliant!

With offers of cash, housing and a budding talent pool, smaller cities and states hope to get in on the ground floor of a new era for remote workers.

03/04/2021

"Soon after she arrived in Chicago, in 1889, Swedish immigrant Tillie Anderson decided she needed a bicycle. While scraping together a living as a seamstress in a tailor’s shop, she spotted women sailing by on the new contraptions, looking very free, and she wanted to try it, too. Among her siblings, Anderson was known for her steely will; after two years of saving, she bought her first ride. Cruising through the streets of Chicago, however, Anderson quickly realized that she wasn’t satisfied with pedaling slow graceful loops like other Victorian ladies. She wanted to go fast.

"In October 1895, Anderson entered her first race: a 100-mile test of endurance on Illinois roads between Elgin and Aurora. While bicycle riding was fashionable for women at the time, competitive racing was still a novelty—though a fast-growing one. In driving rain, Anderson outpaced the previous women’s course record by 18 minutes. Several months later, in January 1896, she entered her first six-day race, in Chicago. Athletes competed for several hours each night on steep-banked wooden velodromes to see who could ride the farthest. By the last day, Anderson had left nearly everyone behind and was trailing only top pro Dottie Farnsworth. In the last four laps, the crowd thundered and shook the walls as Anderson pushed past Farnsworth and sprinted to victory.

“When the last gong sounded and the race was won the crowd went into a delirium of excitement,” a reporter from the Chicago Tribune wrote the next day. “Men bellowed hoarsely and women screamed. Garments were waved frantically and hats were juggled on canes and thrown into the air.” Because Anderson beat the country’s leading racers, the reporter dubbed her the speediest woman rider in America. Anderson clinched a new record for a six-hour distance, 114 miles, but perhaps more important, she found a new career and her life’s calling.

"In the 1890s and very early 20th century, women’s cycling became one of the country’s great sporting spectacles, drawing crowds of as many as 10,000 in cities across the country—often more than college football games or even professional baseball at the time. Women raced the ungainly high-wheel penny-farthings throughout the 1880s, but the advent of the safety bicycle, with its equal-sized wheels, chain drive, improved braking, and lower cost, made the sport more accessible. Women took to the road by the thousands, experiencing newfound mobility and freedom, to the extent that women’s rights activists hailed the invention as a great emancipator. “I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood,” Susan B. Anthony said in 1896."

Cyclist Tillie Anderson came out of nowhere to shatter records, dominate her competition, and earn the world champion title during the late-19th-century women's racing craze

01/29/2021

Cicely Tyson in Central Park, 1973. R.I.P.

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11/03/2020

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