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Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac
is available at the following locations:

ALABAMA:
+ Bici Cooperative, Birmingham

CALIFORNIA:
+ Truckee Book & Bean, Truckee
+ City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco
+ Newsbeat News, Sacramento
+ Newsbeat News, Davis

COLORADO:
+ The Cycologist, Fort Collins
+ The Red Table Cafe, Fort Collins
+ Green Logic, Fort Collins
+ Matter Bookstore, Fort Collins
+ New Belgium Brewing, Fort Collins
+ Brave New Wheel, Fort Collins
+ Al's Newstand, Fort Collins
+ Old Firehouse Books, Fort Collins
+ Full Cycle, Fort Collins
+ Starry Night Coffee Company, Fort Collins
+ Cafe Ardour, Fort Collins
+ Everyday Joe's, Fort Collins
+ Fort Collins Food Co-op, Fort Collins
+ Bookrack, Fort Collins
+ Nature's Own, Fort Collins
+ Trident Booksellers and Cafe, Boulder
+ Vecchio's Bicicletteria, Boulder
+ Tattered Cover, Denver

GEORGIA:
+ Inman Perk Coffee, Atlanta
+ Intown Bicycles, Atlanta
+ Young Blood Gallery and Boutique, Atlanta
+ No Brakes, Atlanta
+ Criminal Records, Atlanta
+ Bound To Be Read Books, Atlanta

IDAHO:
+ Boise Bicycle Project Co-Op, Boise

ILLINOIS:
+ Quimby's Bookstore, Chicago
+ Turin Bicycle, Evanston

IOWA:
+ Ritual Cafe, Des Moines
+ Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City

MICHIGAN:
+ Commute Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids

MINNESOTA:
+ Cars R Coffins Coffee Bar, Minneapolis
+ One On One, Minneapolis
+ Arise! Bookstore, Minneapolis

MONTANA:
+ Farm to Market Bicycle Co., Whitefish

NEW JERSEY:
+ Grove Street Bicycles, Jersey City

NEW YORK:
+ Boneshaker Cafe, Brooklyn

NORTH DAKOTA:
+ Boneshaker Coffee Company, Bismarck

OHIO:
+ Seagull/Octopus, Columbus

OREGON:
+ Powell's City of Books, Portland
+ Powell's on Hawthorne, Portland
+ Reading Frenzy, Portland
+ Black Star Bags, Portland
+ Microcosm Publishing, Portland

TEXAS:
+ The Ground Cafe, Amarillo
+ Eco-Wise, Austin
+ MonkeyWrench Books, Austin
+ The Peddler, Austin
+ Sedition Books, Houston

UTAH:
+ Saturday Cycles, West Bountiful

WASHINGTON:
+ Free Range Cycles, Seattle
+ Elliot Bay Books, Seattle
+ Left Bank Books, Seattle
+ Hub & Bespoke, Seattle


WISCONSIN:
+ Beans & Barley, Milwaukee

WYOMING:
+ Bike & Trike, Rock Springs
+ Coal Creek Coffee Company, Laramie
+ Night Heron, Laramie
+ Fine Edge, Laramie

AN OPEN ENERGY EQUATION PDF Print E-mail
Written by Arthur Worth   

0. Alain Badiou states, “The subject must […] continue under his own steam, no longer protected by the ambiguities of the representing fiction.” How very true.

1. What follows is nothing you do not already know. Energy is nowadays perpetually newsworthy, be it gas and heating prices or overloaded power grids and fossil fuel depletion. As such, you have no doubt wondered about everything below. It is high time to ask, however, and more vehemently than ever: what about the bicycle?

2. Another way of asking this question: to what extent might we understand our national obesity epidemic, our gridlocked traffic routines, our mental and physical health problems, our country’s foreign war campaigns, and the quickly warming planet as symptoms of the same unbalanced energy equation?

3. Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) has called advocacy of the bicycle as a viable means of personal transportation “a 19th century solution to a 21st century problem.” But is the bicycle so easily dismissed? Do not several alarming American trends point to a grander problem concerning how we get where we are going?

4. Energy has to come from somewhere. It’s an undeniable law of thermodynamics, common sense, chemistry, and probably every other field that has rules and laws that govern it. Similarly, nothing on Earth really exists in isolation, outside of being affected and effected by everything else. Species and environments are no doubt in a circular and interrelated symbiotic relationship.

5. What we do day in and day out, therefore, has an effect on our bodies, our surroundings, and our future. Living in a post-Industrial Revolution society, however, means that we do not have to work so hard for our food and also do not have to work so hard to transport ourselves. This situation poses many problems.

6. Energy, moreover, is raw and wonderful. It’s what makes things happen. It’s fuel, it’s food, it’s gas, it’s electricity, it’s sunlight, it’s power—it’s part of everything we do all the time. Everything, then, in order to happen or exist, requires energy, but where does that energy come from? This question is infrequently asked, unfortunately.

7. The calorie is a measure of energy. It’s true. When you eat, you are consuming energy that powers your own life processes, but also furthermore allows you to do other things, like move and talk. At the core of this open energy equation is a concept of the body as a complex system, one that makes use of energy insofar as a unique body is capable. In this setup, the human body becomes a site of production; that is, we can use ourselves as vehicles of power and action and advancement.

8. Riding a bicycle is not a complex act, nor is it one that will single-handedly solve any major political or environment crises, even if bicycle riding were to be taken up by large masses of people the world over. The consequences of riding a bike are, however, many and varied, and a body on a bicycle can yield remarkable results, not the least of which is movement. Both the tangible and intangible qualities of bicycling are subtle, but nonetheless meaningful and important.

9. One result: when we rely on power that is innate to and stored within our bodies after we have eaten (e.g., by riding a bicycle), we rely less on energy that is external to us (e.g., dead dinosaurs beneath the crust of the earth). Healthy bodies move and rely on themselves routinely, and healthy bodies make for healthy communities. Healthy communities, in turn, make for a healthy planet, and a healthy planet makes for healthy bodies. The circle, it goes without saying, completes itself.
 
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