The BTA is excited to announce the September release of Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet, authored by Portland’s bike queen, Mia Birk. Joyride tells the inspiring story of Mia’s 20-year crusade to integrate bicycling into daily life. With a table scrap of funding, she led a revolution that grew Portland, OR into the #1 American cycling city. Mia then hits the road, helping make communities across the nation – even her hometown, Dallas TX – more human, healthy, safe, and livable. While many books today extol the pain of our world’s problems, Mia’s funny, touching Joyride is the antidote, offering hope to any and everyone interested in changing our world for the better, one pedal stroke at a time.
Mia is taking pre-orders at www.miabirk.com. Joyride proceeds support the BTA and other groups working to further the mission of a more livable, sustainable world. When ordering the book, enter the promotional code “BTA-JOYRIDE” in the comments field at checkout to show your support.
Mia will be at the national Pro-Walk/Bike Conference in Chattanooga this September to sign books and deliver a keynote speech.
Bicycling advocates know Mia Birk as one of the most important figures in America’s urban biking renaissance. And now she has produced a witty, poignant and often funny memoir detailing how she persuaded politicians, city bureaucrats and average citizens that bikes are a perfectly sensible form of transportation. You don’t need to ever mount a bike yourself to appreciate this story, which is really for anyone who ever wanted to understand how to make things happen in a modern American city, suburb or small town. –Jeff Mapes, author of Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities
