Look at them spokes

This blog celebrates the beauty of bicycles. See cruniacisdead.tumblr.com for feminist poetry, queer fanart, nerdy diversity, and everything else I love.

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"Ew you’re a guy and like the color pink are you gay?"

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I’ve been waiting for this post all my life

[lunarobverse]

A brilliant metaphor

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On my ride home the other day.

[brutereason]

It’s lovely that Robin Thicke thinks his marriage is worth saving, but this is not the way to go about it. This entire album, the track names, the hashtag; if this is in fact a sincere effort to “get her back” it’s basically a how-to on abuser dynamics. Rather than allowing Patton the time and space to decide whether or not to reconcile in private, with this album, Thicke has effectively enlisted the public to get on his side and pressure her into going back to him, and make her the villain if she refuses. “Oh, but he wrote a whole album about her! He’s really sorry!” All while he rakes in the cash, and she loses her resolve to stay away from a man who cheated on her, publicly embarrassed her and ruined a decades long relationship.

BattyMamzelle: Let’s Talk About Robin Thicke’s Manipulative Ploy To “Get Her Back” (via brutereason)

OH MY GOD!! YESSS!! YESSSSSS!! I BEEN SAYING THE SAAAAME SHIT! THIS IS MANIPULATIVE AND ABUSIVE AND THAT MAN KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE’S DOING.

(via anukii)

Hey look the guy who wrote the date rape anthem of 2013 is a manipulative abuser to his ex-wife I mean who woulda’ thunk it!

(via misandry-mermaid)

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[urbendisaster]

what?

[feather-in-my-cap-and-cheese-de]

The wheels take impact and stress off your legs, and the position helps your spine, but you’re still doing running motions instead of biking motions, so your legs are getting a good workout, and you can go for longer

[xbox420-deactivated20141118]

nerdy shit aside, iamgine how sick it must be to just let those feet fly into the air and do superman poses down a highway

[kaijuerotica]

"Nerdy shit aside u can act like Superman"

[themspokes-blog]

This would also provide good impact to help maintain bone density, which cycling sadly does not provide.

[grofjardanhazy]

Self-Protection on a Cycle – How you may Best Defend Yourself when Attacked by Modern Highwaymen, Showing how you should Act when Menaced by Footpads, when Chased by another Cyclist, and when Attacked under various other Circumstances; showing, also, how the Cycle may be used as a Weapon

by Marcus Tindal

in: Pearson’s Magazine, v.5 no.4, April 1901

[fyrelachele]

This is important stuff you know!

[iowawomensarchives]

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. — Susan B. Anthony, 1896; quoted in "Wheels of Change: How the Bicycle Empowered Women"

[iowawomensarchives]

Iowa Digital Library: Suffragist Carrie Dean Pruyn, Tipton, Iowa, 1890s

State Historical Society of Iowa: Carrie Dean Pruyn papers, ca. 1890-1950

[humansofnewyork]

"One thing that is crazy to think about is how many normal Nazis there were. All the ordinary people who got swept up by this man, and suddenly they are involved in terrible things, and they don’t know how they got there, and they don’t know how to get out. But don’t use that quote. I don’t want anyone to think I’m a Nazi sympathizer."

[childofzami]

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I think this cyclist wrapped her bike with fiber optic cable. I bet it looks amazing at night.

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This cyclist caught me checking out his bicycle. I told him it was pretty, and he told me about the joy of riding his first road bike. It feels like flying.

[news14]

if youre having a bad day please watch this ok 

[themspokes-blog]

i don't understand what i just watched but i have so much respect for your country now ok

[kuma-la-la]

i'm sorry, but swedish sounds hilarious to me omg

VAFFAN MENAR DU SVENSKA ÄR JU SKITVACKERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ÄPPEL PÄPPEL PIRON PARON KRÅKAN SATT PÅ TALLEGREN

[bistraja]

You don’t understand. The last sentence is all that is beautiful in Swedish, condensed into one perfect sentence. A sentence with great beauty and nostalgia for all Swedes

[themspokes-blog]

I WANT TO UNDERSTAND.  All Google translate gave me was "VAFFAN MEAN YOU SWEDISH'RE CRAP BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!! APPLE Pappel PIRON PARON CROW PUT ON PINE BRANCH" Please I want to know. Someone help a linguist out.

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