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“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can’t get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”"– Susan B. Anthony said in 1896.

Part of this quote was found in Women find liberation on two wheels by Laura McCamy in the San Francisco Chronicle. A recent story about the increasing number of female bike commuters in the city.

What the women profiled in McCamy’s article have in common is that they discover a new sense of confidence in being self-propelled. As Courtney Ramey, a bike commuter since October, explained it, “I was under this misconception that it is so dangerous to be a bike rider in San Francisco. It’s actually not – you just have to be aware of what’s going on around you at all times.“

In need of a confidence boost and new sense of freedom? Tune it up; reclaim the road…

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