Megan Ramey
@bikabout.com
Safe Routes to School Manager 4 Hood River. Bike 🚲 travel writer & map 🗺 maker. Scheming on bike 🛏️ hostel in Columbia Gorge.
Stranger Things #BikeBus was unveiled last weekend in anticipation of the series finale roll-out beginning on Thanksgiving 🦃
🧵 on why this partnership is pure magic ✨ 1/x
🧵 on why this partnership is pure magic ✨ 1/x
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Stranger Things #BikeBus was unveiled last weekend in anticipation of the series finale roll-out beginning on Thanksgiving 🦃
🧵 on why this partnership is pure magic ✨ 1/x
🧵 on why this partnership is pure magic ✨ 1/x
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Seeing recent threads from @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social and @bikabout.com about e-bikes (or e-dirt bikes as the case may be), I thought I would throw in my thoughts as a parent of a now-teenager and pre-teen that just moved to a safe place to ride a bike from a not-safe place.
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Seeing recent threads from @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social and @bikabout.com about e-bikes (or e-dirt bikes as the case may be), I thought I would throw in my thoughts as a parent of a now-teenager and pre-teen that just moved to a safe place to ride a bike from a not-safe place.
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I’m glad to live in a great part of Minneapolis where kids traveling alone is okay. Didn’t start for us regularly until 2nd and 5th but now a year later they are pretty competent on their own.
"Can [your 1st grader] travel alone in the neighborhood (4-8 blocks) to the store, school, playground or to a friend’s home.”
Psychologist, Louise Bates Ames, book "Your 6YO: Loving and Defiant" in '79, on childhood development.
Life After Cars continues to surprise me. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Psychologist, Louise Bates Ames, book "Your 6YO: Loving and Defiant" in '79, on childhood development.
Life After Cars continues to surprise me. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I’m glad to live in a great part of Minneapolis where kids traveling alone is okay. Didn’t start for us regularly until 2nd and 5th but now a year later they are pretty competent on their own.
"Can [your 1st grader] travel alone in the neighborhood (4-8 blocks) to the store, school, playground or to a friend’s home.”
Psychologist, Louise Bates Ames, book "Your 6YO: Loving and Defiant" in '79, on childhood development.
Life After Cars continues to surprise me. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Psychologist, Louise Bates Ames, book "Your 6YO: Loving and Defiant" in '79, on childhood development.
Life After Cars continues to surprise me. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"Can [your 1st grader] travel alone in the neighborhood (4-8 blocks) to the store, school, playground or to a friend’s home.”
Psychologist, Louise Bates Ames, book "Your 6YO: Loving and Defiant" in '79, on childhood development.
Life After Cars continues to surprise me. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
Psychologist, Louise Bates Ames, book "Your 6YO: Loving and Defiant" in '79, on childhood development.
Life After Cars continues to surprise me. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
For our final Ruby Bridges walk to school day at Parkdale, we gathered under a looming Mount Hood for hot chocolate and walked through some spectacular golden light.
And look at those awesome @cleverhood.bsky.social jackets for our rain library thanks to @saferoutespartners.bsky.social!
And look at those awesome @cleverhood.bsky.social jackets for our rain library thanks to @saferoutespartners.bsky.social!
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
For our final Ruby Bridges walk to school day at Parkdale, we gathered under a looming Mount Hood for hot chocolate and walked through some spectacular golden light.
And look at those awesome @cleverhood.bsky.social jackets for our rain library thanks to @saferoutespartners.bsky.social!
And look at those awesome @cleverhood.bsky.social jackets for our rain library thanks to @saferoutespartners.bsky.social!
7 years ago, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and promptly handed her to her mom.
Happy Birthday to my star, Penelope. She gifted me my greatest life experience including a 2nd opportunity to bike while pregnant!
Story: www.bikabout.com/blog/biking-...
Happy Birthday to my star, Penelope. She gifted me my greatest life experience including a 2nd opportunity to bike while pregnant!
Story: www.bikabout.com/blog/biking-...
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
7 years ago, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and promptly handed her to her mom.
Happy Birthday to my star, Penelope. She gifted me my greatest life experience including a 2nd opportunity to bike while pregnant!
Story: www.bikabout.com/blog/biking-...
Happy Birthday to my star, Penelope. She gifted me my greatest life experience including a 2nd opportunity to bike while pregnant!
Story: www.bikabout.com/blog/biking-...
Before the walk: "I don't know you"
End of walk: holding hands
Walking and Bike Buses build community FAST!
This goes out to all our fellow leaders out there and the relationships they have with their students. You are making memories.
End of walk: holding hands
Walking and Bike Buses build community FAST!
This goes out to all our fellow leaders out there and the relationships they have with their students. You are making memories.
November 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Before the walk: "I don't know you"
End of walk: holding hands
Walking and Bike Buses build community FAST!
This goes out to all our fellow leaders out there and the relationships they have with their students. You are making memories.
End of walk: holding hands
Walking and Bike Buses build community FAST!
This goes out to all our fellow leaders out there and the relationships they have with their students. You are making memories.
5am came quickly this morning, but just like magic, the kids and our panoramic beauty of the Columbia Gorge wakes me up really quickly.
Happy Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day.
Happy Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day.
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
5am came quickly this morning, but just like magic, the kids and our panoramic beauty of the Columbia Gorge wakes me up really quickly.
Happy Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day.
Happy Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day.
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Every year, my city has the landscaping swapped in our planter protected bike lane to reflect the current season.
We just switched from autumn mums to a festive holiday theme, and it adds so much enjoyment to my commute.
Infrastructure can be beautiful at the human scale.
We just switched from autumn mums to a festive holiday theme, and it adds so much enjoyment to my commute.
Infrastructure can be beautiful at the human scale.
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Every year, my city has the landscaping swapped in our planter protected bike lane to reflect the current season.
We just switched from autumn mums to a festive holiday theme, and it adds so much enjoyment to my commute.
Infrastructure can be beautiful at the human scale.
We just switched from autumn mums to a festive holiday theme, and it adds so much enjoyment to my commute.
Infrastructure can be beautiful at the human scale.
4 people radicalized by parenting.
Last night's Life After Cars book talk at Powell's was another evening of church. Not surprising, "Cars Ruin Childhood" is my favorite chapter bc of the effectiveness of kids' voices and subversive joy.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
@coachbalto.bsky.social
Last night's Life After Cars book talk at Powell's was another evening of church. Not surprising, "Cars Ruin Childhood" is my favorite chapter bc of the effectiveness of kids' voices and subversive joy.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
@coachbalto.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
4 people radicalized by parenting.
Last night's Life After Cars book talk at Powell's was another evening of church. Not surprising, "Cars Ruin Childhood" is my favorite chapter bc of the effectiveness of kids' voices and subversive joy.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
@coachbalto.bsky.social
Last night's Life After Cars book talk at Powell's was another evening of church. Not surprising, "Cars Ruin Childhood" is my favorite chapter bc of the effectiveness of kids' voices and subversive joy.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
@coachbalto.bsky.social
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November 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
See you tonight!
Hello, Portland! We are so excited to announce that we'll be at the famous @powells.bsky.social on November 13th in conversation with @opb.org's @anomalily.net about our new book, "Life After Cars."
Tickets, which include a copy of the book, are on sale now:
www.powells.com/events/sarah...
Tickets, which include a copy of the book, are on sale now:
www.powells.com/events/sarah...
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
See you tonight!
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New Post: Katie Wilson is Seattle’s Next Mayor seattletransitblog.com/2025/11/13/k...
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New Post: Katie Wilson is Seattle’s Next Mayor seattletransitblog.com/2025/11/13/k...
Team Portland turnt up!
Thanks to @bikeportland for bringing all our people to Bike Happy Hour. It felt like homecoming for transportation nerds.
It was an overdue joy meet Doug and Sarah of @thewaroncars.bsky.social!
Thanks to @bikeportland for bringing all our people to Bike Happy Hour. It felt like homecoming for transportation nerds.
It was an overdue joy meet Doug and Sarah of @thewaroncars.bsky.social!
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Team Portland turnt up!
Thanks to @bikeportland for bringing all our people to Bike Happy Hour. It felt like homecoming for transportation nerds.
It was an overdue joy meet Doug and Sarah of @thewaroncars.bsky.social!
Thanks to @bikeportland for bringing all our people to Bike Happy Hour. It felt like homecoming for transportation nerds.
It was an overdue joy meet Doug and Sarah of @thewaroncars.bsky.social!
Off to Portland for a very special Bike Happy Hour.
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Off to Portland for a very special Bike Happy Hour.
What other walk to school day features slumbering cows 🐄?
Oh, how our families need peace and community right now and #RubyBridges is the perfect event for it.
#hoodrivercounty
Oh, how our families need peace and community right now and #RubyBridges is the perfect event for it.
#hoodrivercounty
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
What other walk to school day features slumbering cows 🐄?
Oh, how our families need peace and community right now and #RubyBridges is the perfect event for it.
#hoodrivercounty
Oh, how our families need peace and community right now and #RubyBridges is the perfect event for it.
#hoodrivercounty
Woot!!!
NEW STORY // Wilson Pulls Away from Harrell, Leads by 1,346 Votes
Story by Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/11/w...
Story by Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/11/w...
Wilson Pulls Away from Harrell, Leads by 1,346 Votes » The Urbanist
# In Tuesday's drop, Urbanist-endorsed progressive challenger Katie Wilson expanded her narrow lead over Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell. She now leads by 1,346 votes or 0.49%. With very few ballots remai...
www.theurbanist.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Woot!!!
"Get your hands dirty and drop the screens and get obsessed with something, get passionate. We all want to share in what you might create." -Jack White
Freedom looks like kids on bikes, feeling the music, creating their own world.
Freedom looks like kids on bikes, feeling the music, creating their own world.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"Get your hands dirty and drop the screens and get obsessed with something, get passionate. We all want to share in what you might create." -Jack White
Freedom looks like kids on bikes, feeling the music, creating their own world.
Freedom looks like kids on bikes, feeling the music, creating their own world.
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A beautiful and tragic episode about the selfishness brought on by the auto industry.
Too much for me to take in one sitting.
My heart breaks for what was robbed from America
Too much for me to take in one sitting.
My heart breaks for what was robbed from America
NEW EPISODE: "The Creation of America's Car Culture." Producer Ilana Strauss talks to @norton.bsky.social about the two men who, in the 1920s, teamed up to sell more cars and shape the way cities handle traffic. Their legacy can be felt across the country today. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/t...
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A beautiful and tragic episode about the selfishness brought on by the auto industry.
Too much for me to take in one sitting.
My heart breaks for what was robbed from America
Too much for me to take in one sitting.
My heart breaks for what was robbed from America
Happy Ruby Bridges Walk to School week!
You will be seeing a lot of fun videos to every version of Blackbird 🎶 that I can find including the OG by the Beatles here.
You will be seeing a lot of fun videos to every version of Blackbird 🎶 that I can find including the OG by the Beatles here.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Happy Ruby Bridges Walk to School week!
You will be seeing a lot of fun videos to every version of Blackbird 🎶 that I can find including the OG by the Beatles here.
You will be seeing a lot of fun videos to every version of Blackbird 🎶 that I can find including the OG by the Beatles here.
Tern is a great E-bike for youth:
+ Carries stuff
+ Legally designed to carry a friend
+ Integrated lights
+ Class 1, pedal-assist
Parent's E-bike buyer's guide:
www.bikabout.com/ebike-guide-...
+ Carries stuff
+ Legally designed to carry a friend
+ Integrated lights
+ Class 1, pedal-assist
Parent's E-bike buyer's guide:
www.bikabout.com/ebike-guide-...
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Tern is a great E-bike for youth:
+ Carries stuff
+ Legally designed to carry a friend
+ Integrated lights
+ Class 1, pedal-assist
Parent's E-bike buyer's guide:
www.bikabout.com/ebike-guide-...
+ Carries stuff
+ Legally designed to carry a friend
+ Integrated lights
+ Class 1, pedal-assist
Parent's E-bike buyer's guide:
www.bikabout.com/ebike-guide-...
Reposted by Megan Ramey
We don’t have a youth e-bike problem — we have a youth e-moto problem.
144 comments
I struck a chord with this @bikeportland.org advocating for Oregon's youth. This would be a game changer for moms like me who unfairly bear the burden of kid shuttling and for t(w)eens who need to learn resiliency and independence the fun way.
bikeportland.org/2025/11/05/o...
I struck a chord with this @bikeportland.org advocating for Oregon's youth. This would be a game changer for moms like me who unfairly bear the burden of kid shuttling and for t(w)eens who need to learn resiliency and independence the fun way.
bikeportland.org/2025/11/05/o...
Opinion: Let Oregon kids ride Class 1 e-bikes
Oregon's age restriction takes away a crucial mobility tool for young people.
bikeportland.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
We don’t have a youth e-bike problem — we have a youth e-moto problem.
144 comments
I struck a chord with this @bikeportland.org advocating for Oregon's youth. This would be a game changer for moms like me who unfairly bear the burden of kid shuttling and for t(w)eens who need to learn resiliency and independence the fun way.
bikeportland.org/2025/11/05/o...
I struck a chord with this @bikeportland.org advocating for Oregon's youth. This would be a game changer for moms like me who unfairly bear the burden of kid shuttling and for t(w)eens who need to learn resiliency and independence the fun way.
bikeportland.org/2025/11/05/o...
Opinion: Let Oregon kids ride Class 1 e-bikes
Oregon's age restriction takes away a crucial mobility tool for young people.
bikeportland.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
144 comments
I struck a chord with this @bikeportland.org advocating for Oregon's youth. This would be a game changer for moms like me who unfairly bear the burden of kid shuttling and for t(w)eens who need to learn resiliency and independence the fun way.
bikeportland.org/2025/11/05/o...
I struck a chord with this @bikeportland.org advocating for Oregon's youth. This would be a game changer for moms like me who unfairly bear the burden of kid shuttling and for t(w)eens who need to learn resiliency and independence the fun way.
bikeportland.org/2025/11/05/o...
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Everyone cares about transportation. This makes studying it really fun, but also means everyone (including experts) is in danger of confusing their opinions for facts. You would not believe how many comments in an academic talk about walking and cycling have to do with regulating e-bikes.
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Everyone cares about transportation. This makes studying it really fun, but also means everyone (including experts) is in danger of confusing their opinions for facts. You would not believe how many comments in an academic talk about walking and cycling have to do with regulating e-bikes.
"Transportation is a core life skill. We should be teaching it from K-12"
Recording of Best Practices in #Ebike Ed webinar by @saferoutespartners.bsky.social including Alison Dewey of @bikeleague.org and Gwen Froh of Marin County is 👇🏼
🔗https://tinyurl.com/2p8y2ecx
#saferoutestoschool
Recording of Best Practices in #Ebike Ed webinar by @saferoutespartners.bsky.social including Alison Dewey of @bikeleague.org and Gwen Froh of Marin County is 👇🏼
🔗https://tinyurl.com/2p8y2ecx
#saferoutestoschool
November 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"Transportation is a core life skill. We should be teaching it from K-12"
Recording of Best Practices in #Ebike Ed webinar by @saferoutespartners.bsky.social including Alison Dewey of @bikeleague.org and Gwen Froh of Marin County is 👇🏼
🔗https://tinyurl.com/2p8y2ecx
#saferoutestoschool
Recording of Best Practices in #Ebike Ed webinar by @saferoutespartners.bsky.social including Alison Dewey of @bikeleague.org and Gwen Froh of Marin County is 👇🏼
🔗https://tinyurl.com/2p8y2ecx
#saferoutestoschool