Welcome Shifter Big Stories, sponsored by Riese & Müller, a series of videos delving into bigger, and deeper issues around urban cycling and bike commuting.

We're looking at why, in almost every city in the world, fewer women than men ride bikes for transportation, why this matters, and what we can do about it.

A big thanks to Riese & Müller for sponsoring this year's Big Stories. In this video, I was riding the Riese & Müller Packster 70 — it's so fun and smooth to ride, and it hauls huge loads easily: https://www.rm.de/enpt/bikes/packst...

Thanks to Bishops Family Cycles in Victoria, B.C.: https://www.familycycles.ca/

Thanks to Cloud eBikes in Vancouver, B.C.: https://cloudebikes.ca/

In addition to those who appear in the video, I also want to shoutout Karen Labree of the Cities, Health and Active Transportation Research Lab in Victoria, B.C. for her invaluable help.

Thanks to Cailynn Klingbeil, not only for copresenting this video, but for contributing much research and writing. She has a great newsletter about getting outdoors: https://gooutside.substack.com/

Thanks to Josh Sandulak for his videography and editing: https://www.joshsandulak.com/

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0:00 Meet Sukey
0:52 Defining the problem
3:30 The bicycle's historical importance to women
5:41 Barriers facing women cycling in cities today
7:51 Why some cities have higher proportions of women riding
9:14 A potential solution: "Modalities of care."
11:22 Visiting a city that's making a difference

Sources:
https://www.canada.ca/en/publichealt...
https://velocanadabikes.org/gendereq...
https://www.itdp.org/2022/07/06/cycli...
https://ecf.com/newsandevents/news/...
https://theconversation.com/fromwalk...
https://99percentinvisible.org/episod...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/6/2/1...
https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/cam...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...
https://lcc.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads...
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/malec...
http://siliconvalleytrails.pbworks.co...
https://activetravelstudies.org/artic...
https://www.itfoecd.org/sites/defaul...
https://www.theguardian.com/environme...
Cycling for Sustainable Cities, edited by Ralph Buehler and John Pucher
How Cycling Can Save the World by Peter Walker
Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels by Hannah Ross
Urban Revolutions: A Woman's Guide to TwoWheeled Transportation

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