¡Viva La Velorution!

The worldwide cycling movement is still growing fast! Not just mountain biking or for sport, but for transportation as well. Love it or otherwise, Critical Mass bicycle rides have swept into cities across the world. With it, many people have become increasingly aware of our global transportation problems, air pollution, noise pollution, the loss of our streets to the auto, and erosion of communities as sprawl unfolds. This awareness has grown into a worldwide movement, not just for cycling, but to address issues of sane transportation solutions and sustainable, livable communities. The velorution is one part of this movement as people look to the bicycle as part of the solution to these problems. No longer just for sport or recreation, cycling is the healthy, fun, social way of the future. Come join Bikesummer 99 to discover and take part in this vision for the future.

Further Reference on Critical Mass:

• Main Critical Mass Website - A website that contains links to all other known Critical Mass web sites.
• A collection of Critical Mass Links - See how far the velorution has pedaled.
• Bicycling Over the Rainbow: Redesigning Cities -- and Beyond - A great view of Critical Mass in San Francisco by Chris Carlsson.
• Critical Mass Photos - San Francisco - A picture speaks volumes. Check out this great collection of photos from these monthly community rides.
• Inspiring Critical Mass posters by artist Mona Caron.
• Critical Mass History - An inspiring, comprehensive resource on the history of Critical Mass in San Francisco.
• The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition - The fine folks who inspired the BikeSummer! dream.
• The Bicycle Civil Liberties Union - Their mission includes far more than just bikes.

Suggested Reading
Note: Please buy books from your local bookstore and not from www.amazon.com.
The following links to amazon are only given so you can learn more about the books.

• Give Peas A Chance - Permaculture for all ages by Peter Barbarow, from Naturegraph Publishers.
• Post-Peak Oil Lifestyle
• Up To Here - Blog examining the harsh realities of global warming.
• Attitude Adjuster - Thoughts by San Francisco cyclist and historian Chris Carlsson
• The Post-Carbon Institute The mission of Post Carbon Institute is to assist in the effort to relocalize communities and adapt to an energy constrained world.
• Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas. Energy action for a healthy economy and a clean environment.
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs 
• Nature's Metropolis : Chicago and the Great West, by William Cronon   
• The Geography of Nowhere : The Rise and Decline of America's Man-MadeLandscape, by James Howard Kunstler 
• The Oil Drum - Discussions about energy and our future.
• Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century, by James Howard Kunstler
• Asphalt Nation : How the Automobile Took over America, and How We Can Take It Back, by Jane Holtz Kay 
• Life After The Oil Crash - Peak oil realities.
• Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City, by Clay McShane 
• The City After the Automobile : An Architect's Vision, by Moshe Safdie, Wendy Kohn (Contributor) 
• Cities Without Suburbs (Woodrow Wilson Center Special Studies), by David Rusk 
• Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability, by Myron W. Orfield 
• Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, by Joel Garreau 
• Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, by Kenneth T. Jackson 
• Getting There: The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century, by Stephen B. Goddard 
• The Elephant in the Bedroom: Automobile Dependence & Denial : Impacts on the Economy and Environment, by Stanley I. Hart, Alvin L. Spivak 
• The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream, by Peter Calthorpe 
• How Wal-Mart Is Destroying America: And What You Can Do About It, by Bill Quinn 
• City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davis 
• Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, by Mike Davis 
• Ecotopia, by Ernest Callenbach 
• EcoTopia - Web site dedicated to environmental education and an environmental lifestyle.
• Pushcart War, by Jean Merrill 
• Urban Bikers' Tricks & Tips--Low Tech & No-Tech Ways to Find, Ride, & Keep a Bicycle, by Dave Glowacz 
• The Essential Bicycle Commuter, by Trudy E. Bell 
• Bicycling Magazine's Bicycle Commuting Made Easy, by Editors of Bicycling Magazine 
• Bicycle Transportation : A Handbook for Cycling Transportation Engineers,by John Forester 
• The Bike Book, by Fred Milson 
• Bike Cult: The Ultimate Guide to Human-Powered Vehicles, by David B. Perry 
• A Wheel Within a Wheel: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle : With Some Reflections by the Way, by Frances E. Willard 
• Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living With Less Traffic, by David Engwicht 
• The Urban Oasis: Guideways and Greenways in the Human Environment, by Roxanne Warren 
• Energy and Equity, by Avan Allich

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