Public squares, neighborhood parks, sidewalks, marketplaces-these are the places where people mingle, ideas grow, and culture and community germinate. All of this requires a human-scaled built environment. The human spirit needs contact with others to grow and flourish. The bicycle is ideal transportation to travel this compact urban environment. Bicycling promotes social interaction at every turn.
Cycling keeps the body fit and the mind and reflexes sharp.
Cycling as everyday transportation is a simple solution to regular exercise. And of course, the simple acts of bicycling lifts the human spirit and revives our connection with air, land, and water. Nothing short of a velorution on a massive scale will make people take note and think and begin to turn the wheels toward sustainability. Bikesummer 1999 in San Francisco is the first monumental wave of the coming sea change. The revolution will not be motorized.