Allison Williams – www.allison-williams.com
Michelle Spitz – www.2pedalsphotography.com
Martha Williams – bikefancy.blogspot.com
Mikey Wally – www.mikeywally.com
Andy Singer – www.andysinger.com
Brad Quartuccio – www.randomprecisionphoto.com
Jeff Guerrero – flickr.com/urbanjeff

Humans been aware of head injury risk for some time, as there is evidence of helmets in wartime dating back some three millenia. Combat helmets were common up until widespread firearms, largely fading from use as weaponry rendered them useless but for ornamentation until advances in World War II. Bicycle crash helmets of some form have been around since the days of the ordinary, first with the common pith helmets of the day and then moving towards arrangements of padded leather strips, evolving into the hairnet helmets that lasted into the 1970’s. Bicycle helmets have come a long way since, with a myriad of choices available today.

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Friday, 9 pm, Jalan Sudirman, Yogyakarta, Central Java—a crew of kids on fixed gear bikes pull down the main drag. Among them is a girl sporting a chilbab (Indonesian for headscarf), skinny jeans and a bright yellow bike emblazoned with the Playboy Bunny.

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Pedaling down Halsted Street into Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, I smell the unmistakable aroma of Harold’s Chicken as I pass an outpost of the South Side chain whose logo features a chef chasing a rooster with a hatchet. After an SUV speeds by me blasting hip-hop, I pull up to John’s Hardware and Bicycle Shop and admire the old-fashioned painted sign, featuring John Stallworth’s smiling, bearded face and his no-nonsense slogan, “If we don’t have it you don’t need it.”

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At 2:22 am on March 18 the streets of L.A. glistened slick and wet as I arrived at the start of the Wolfpack Hustle Marathon Crash Race. It was a 45-degree morning, but it was hard to be cold as my eyes grew wider to take in the sight of the hundreds of bikes and bodies filling the intersection of Vermont and Sunset outside Tang’s Donut.

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Here’s a look at some of the I Love Riding in the City contributors for issue #31.

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