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?Bike Boom?: Lessons from the ?70s cycling craze that swept the U.S.

?Bike Boom?: Lessons from the ?70s cycling craze that swept the U.S.

?Bike Boom?: Lessons from the ?70s cycling craze that swept the U.S.

A new book about bicycling?s boom (and bust) has lessons for today?s riders and planners While the U.S. isn?t the cycle-mad Netherlands?yet?recent news may suggest we?re entering a bike-riding renaissance. Biking has become a quickly growing (albeit still relatively tiny) part of the daily commute for more Americans. Bike-share systems continue to expand, and the addition of new bike infrastructure and e-bikes promises to turn more drivers into riders.
But today?s burst in cycling enthusiasm isn?t the first time that the U.S. has seen the two-wheel commute suddenly take off. In fact, it?s an echo of a short burst of bicycling excitement that took hold of the country in the early ?70s. As journalist Carlton Reid points out in a chapter of his new book, Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling, in many ways, we?ve been here before. The U.S., a country often scoffed at for its car-first mindset, found itself in the midst of a two-wheeled frenzy in the early ?70s.
According to Reid?s extensive research, which also covers a similar cycling resurgence in the U.K., the media hyped the frenzy with the kind of language akin to reporting iPhone sales. In 1971, Time noted that the U.S. was riding ?the bicycle?s biggest wave of popularity in its 154-year history,? and that 64 million Americans were regularly using bikes.

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Peter Cohen of the University of Colorado leads 260 cyclists in the 1970 Bike Hike Earth Day protest in Denver.
A U.K.-based writer and historian, Reid has previously written about how cycling, which saw huge growth in the ?20s and ?30s in the United Kingdom, fell off a cliff in the postwar years due to the skyrocketing growth of automobiles and highways.
He believes many causes came together to create the right conditions for the U.S.?s bike boom: Baby Boomers were coming of age; health and recreation were big trends; and perhaps most importantly, the budding environmental movement loathed the automobile.
During the first Earth Day in 1970, activists and protesters at San Jose State College buried a new Ford Maverick on campus in a 12-foot-deep grave. Concerned Bike Riders for the Environment rode through Los Angeles with gas masks on. And numerous writers and authors expounded on the benefits of biking, including the influential Whole Earth Catalog and Richard Ballantine?s Richard?s Bicycle Book, a million-seller, which advocated for the people-powered enjoyment of being free and easy on a two-wheeler.

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The original caption from this 1970 photos: Long-haired cyclist on Fifth Avenue near 59th Street April 22nd is living summation of what Earth Day is supposed to be about. Bicycle represents anti-gasoline engine pollution. Gas mask may be standard in polluted world of the future. And a flower may be a rare thing indeed if pollution keeps up.

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