This is a brief post to share how fun it is to watch so much learning going on through the students in the class. I highly recommend browsing their blogs and just know that most students are not ‘bike people’ or at least weren’t at the start of the class.  That is, their identities didn’t revolve around the bike, their confidence of cycling as daily transport was often quite low within their U.S. context, and their attitude toward the class context was a mixture of excitement and skepticism.  In other words, these students who self-selected into a study abroad class on designing cities for people on bike are very reflective of a ‘normal’ person raised in a U.S. car-dominated context.  And thus, their insights from the class experience are extremely relevant to a much broader public and should be understood as such. Their insights are not of extremists looking o push an unpopular agenda on the masses, but as individuals who had the privilege to learn and experience cities of all sizes that make it possible for people aged 8-80 to do nearly all of their daily trip making and life living by bike, and to do so happily, safely, comfortably, and efficiently.

Read their blogs and share selected posts with others in your orbit that you think would benefit from the reflections of these insightful students.