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12/11/2021

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04/05/2019

04/05/2019

Why don’t more African-Americans ride bicycles?

Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks, right, in Copenhagen with Downtown Denver Partnership Director Tami Door.

It took a week in Copenhagen for Albus Brooks to start thinking seriously about bicycling.

The Denver city councilman, 35, had never owned a bike. By the time he headed home from a study tour in Denmark last month, he knew those days were over.

“We biked every day, so I found myself, on a personal point, increasingly happy,” Brooks said, laughing, in an interview last week. “I was a very happy person by the end of that trip.”

So Brooks came home and bought his first bicycle, a Danish-style city bike. When he rode it to a meeting of other African-American community leaders, eager to spread his conclusion that bike transportation could be as important as mass transit to improving central Denver, he got a first-hand lesson in the size of the task he had decided to tackle.

“I came in in a suit and a bike helmet,” he recalled. “These were all middle-class African-Americans that do not ride bikes. And they looked at me as if I was an alien.”

04/05/2019

But for many African-American communities, the story of the last 50 years has been different. When one in five Black householders doesn’t own a car, it’s easy to see how carlessness can be a badge of poverty, and therefore shame, among rich and poor alike.

03/08/2019

BLACKMENDOBIKE.CA

03/08/2019

BlackMedDoBike.ca’s interest is in growing and supporting a community of men of color who share a passion for cycling. We champion efforts to introduce the joy of cycling and building a bridge of uniting and creating the first ever-black male cycling group here within the Toronto.

We are establishing a comfortable place where men can support, advise, organize, and meet-up/rides and promote skill-sharing. We hope to be a liaison to help user new rides past barriers to entry and into the larger cycling community here in Toronto. We rejoice when men make a decision to get together with other like-minded people that enjoy the outdoors while cycling.

We look forward to share positive images of men and their bikes to affirm the truth that black men do indeed bike. We encourage bike advocacy, and education.

Note:

The date for our first 2019 BlackMenDoBike, cycling trail ride will be posted on June the 1st, our trail ride is titled “Reggea Smash” each rider will be provided with a Bluetooth speaker which will attach to riders bikes while on site and prior to the ride commencing by our onsite technician, the crew leader will control the music for the ride all along the bike trail. Please kindly message if interested as we are trying to gauge interest and prepare for our first club ride, if you are a novice rider and joining your fist cycling club please be aware many will be out and cycling for the first time and you will have a lot of support but most importantly a ton of fun.

Our Uniforms will be be on sale May 1st via the website.