Tag: tubulocity

July 22, 2011

Adaptive cycling and safe infrastructure can be tools to help overcome disability

If you are nearsighted and live in a place where eyeglasses are easy to find, it is not a big problem. If you cannot get glasses where you live, being nearsighted becomes a disability. Disabilities are in large part a social construct, and Elly Blue’s most recent column for Grist looks at ability and the…
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tagged: adaptive cycling, disability, elly blue, neighborhood greenways, outdoors for all, tubulocity
January 6, 2011

What’s your favorite Seattle bike-powered business?

Eric at Tubulocity ran into Steve Richmond of Garden Cycles the other day while riding under the West Seattle bridge. Turns out, Garden Cycles is a gardening service concentrating on planting native species and removing invasive ones. Oh, also, they do a whole lot of the work using bikes (the video above was posted by…
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tagged: bike-powered business, business, garden cycles, tubulocity, undriving
September 7, 2010

Cycling at the Seabeck deaf-blind retreat

Eric Shalit at Tubulocity wrote a wonderful story about his experience helping people ride bikes at Seattle Lighthouse‘s deaf-blind retreat in Seabeck. Not only does it look like a great time, but Eric has some great reflections on what it means to be a sighted-hearing biker:
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tagged: ableism, deaf-blind, seattle lighthouse, tubulocity