Zine'd for the Bike Culture Movement

An amazing, often overlooked source for inspiration in the bicycling community, especially the alternative bicycle community, comes in the form of the zine. While you won't find topics akin to bicycling magazine (and thank the bike Gods) - 'Ride Strong All Day', 'Make Your Bike Faster', 'Floyd Landis Is Getting Screwed Right?' - you will find information on the spirit, and essentially the core of bicycling - community. Discussions on how to raise awareness through bicycling and to be a part of something greater. Warm fuzzies all around.
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Bipedal, By Pedal! zine
40 pages, 1/4 size, offset (2 oz)
$1.50
A social history and tactics lesson about the Critical Mass bicycle movement. Initially meant to serve as a lesson for the unaware, this document is a refresher and motivator about the movement. The biggest question - "is Critical Mass a protest or a celebration?" is explored in extensive detail here and in submission pieces by Ted White (early Critical Mass co-founder and director of "We aren't blocking Traffic!" documentary), Ayleen Crotty (co-host of the KBOO bike show), Scott Larkin (Go By Bicycle zine) , and more. There are also extensive reprints from the 1995 Critical Mass zine "Hey! Get Out of Our Way!" that updates the text and ideas. Illustrations (on every page!) by Matt Gauck, Fly, Sparky Taylor, Andy Singer, a clipping from "The Oregonian", and more!
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You will also find more zines under the searched topic "bike" @ http://www.microcosmpublishing.com/.


Too cheap, lazy or inconvenient for a $1.50? I originally found this and many other bicycling zines @ the SLC Public Library.

Can't find anything or have something to add for bike culture? You might want to make your own bike culture zine. If you need graphics, drop a line. I am always willing to help throw my efforts to the distribution of bicycle powered ideas.

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