Transportation
Touring Civil Rights History on Two Wheels
The new Atlanta company Civil Bikes offers bike rentals and history tours with a side of community-building.
Over the past few years, the powers that be of bicycling have been working steadily toward normalizing the mode. This is both well-intentioned and right: When compared to cars in the face of a climate-change disaster, bikes and other alternate transit modes are something of a silver bullet.
That said, biking still retains much of its former scrappy identity. And for Atlanta's Civil Bikes, a new rental and tour operation run out of a shipping container off the Belt Line, scrappiness is a fitting calling card.