Boneshaker Magazine – Issue 6

Boneshaker Magazine Issue 6 is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Articles in issue #6 includes the first in a series of short articles by Andrew Tobert on the dark art of bicycle maintenance, Trial and Error: a great insight into early memories of learning to ride a bike and some bicycle bling from Sudan.

Boneshaker Magazine is a publication from Bristol (UK) and a celebration of cycling and the people who do it. Full of articles, personal stories and anecdotes about people and projects doing great things with bicycles around the globe. It is our hope that the magazine will both inspire and entertain, raise awareness and bring a smile to your face. Appealing to both bike-heads and those who may not yet have experienced the true joy and freedom that can be found from our two-wheeled friends. Boneshaker Magazine is a sideways look at cycling for bicycle lovers of all stripes, full of the passion, poetry and politics of life on two wheels.

Content: Boneshaker Magazine – Issue 6

The contributions come from an increasingly wide geographic spread and articles such as ‘Cycling + Religion’ and ‘My Balls’ keep the articles a little different from the norm…. in true Boneshaker style. It’s official. My grandmother is a fan of Boneshaker (she especially liked the bear on the cover of issue 5) and I’m stoked! Born in 1919, she grew up in North London and bicycles were a big part of her early life. In fact, her parents actually met whilst out on a ride organised by their local bicycle club, which were fantastically widespread back then. Courting by bike was just how people rolled, albeit on solid rubber tyres and dodging piles of horseshit instead of manhole covers. She speaks fondly of the streets of London in which she grew up – how they were alive with people, bikes and horses and not dominated by cars as they are today. Imagine that. She speaks of the stables that housed their donkey, which would pull behind it a cart for the children who were still too little to ride a bike, everyone else in the family cycling alongside. The history and legacy of our two-wheeled friends really are quite something, as are the associated memories that pedal along with them; very much worth remembering and indeed, celebrating. Viva La Bici and welcome to Boneshaker Magazine – Issue 6!