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Description
In this oral history, road racer and mountain bike pioneer Jacquie Phelan recounts her life on two wheels. Born in San Francisco in 1955, Jacquie grew up in Rhode Island, Kansas, and finally Los Angeles, where she first developed her love of bicycles and her loathing of cars. Jacquie attended college at Middlebury in Vermont, and then moved to the Bay Area in the late 1970s, settling in San Francisco. She recounts her introduction to the Marin County cycling community on the occasion of the Appetite Seminar ride in in 1980, and reminisces about the many races she won over the years, as well as a few of her legendary provocations. She exposes the sexism and misogyny of bike culture, which prompted her to found the Women's Mountain Bike & Tea Society (WOMBATS). Finally, Jacquie discusses her more than 35-year-long relationship with her husband Charlie Cunningham, and her care of him since a tragic accident left him with a life-changing brain injury.
Identifier
24166DCA-5357-4CEE-B4E9-130107934250 2019.039.001
Subject
Accidents Appetite Seminar Bicycle racing Bicycle shops Bicycles Bicycling Bike Messenger World Championship Clubs Cunningham, Charlie Feminism Feminists Fisher, Gary Gender (Sex) Guy, Otis Hershon, Maynard Injuries McBurney, Martin Misogyny MV history - Growth (1980s) Newberry, Liz Olavarri, Cindy Oral history - Sports and recreation Phelan, Jacquie Potts, Steve Races Ritchey, Tom Rockhopper Race San Francisco Sexism SF Bike Coalition Skrabak, Darryl Summers, Gary Toeclips, Alice B Whitehead, Cindy Wilderness Trail Bikes Women Women's Mountain Bike & Tea Society (WOMBATS) Writing
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