Editing Cycling (section)

=== Equality ===
Within western societies the demographic of those who cycle is often not representative of broader society. Research by [[Transport for London|TfL]] in London, UK, suggests that cyclists in London are typically 'white, under 40, male, with medium to high household income.'<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 November 2011 |title=What are the barriers to cycling amongst ethnic minority groups and people from deprived backgrounds? |url=http://content.tfl.gov.uk/barriers-to-cycling-for-ethnic-minorities-and-deprived-groups-summary.pdf |access-date=25 October 2022 |website=content.tfl.gov.uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328201003/http://content.tfl.gov.uk/barriers-to-cycling-for-ethnic-minorities-and-deprived-groups-summary.pdf |archive-date=28 March 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Studies from large-scale representative data from Germany show that people with higher levels of education cycle substantially more often than those with lower levels of education.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hudde |first=Ansgar |date=1 January 2022 |title=The unequal cycling boom in Germany |journal=Journal of Transport Geography |language=en |volume=98 |pages=103244 |doi=10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103244 |s2cid=245066501 |issn=0966-6923 |doi-access=free|bibcode=2022JTGeo..9803244H }}</ref> Even for trips of the same distance and among people from the same city with the same income level, those with higher education cycle more.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hudde |first=Ansgar |date=6 January 2022 |title=Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities |journal=Sociology |volume=56 |issue=5 |pages=909–929 |doi=10.1177/00380385211063366 |s2cid=245810185 |issn=0038-0385 |doi-access=free}}</ref> As a result, there are various forms of activism focused on diversifying the cycling community.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PeopleForBikes Racial Injustice |url=https://www.pfbracialinjustice.org/ |access-date=18 January 2022 |website=Racial Injustice |language=en |archive-date=18 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182831/https://www.pfbracialinjustice.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Inspired by the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement are organizations such as [[Street Riders NYC]] that seek to protest while on bicycles about systemic racism and police brutality. An incidental experience for Street Riders NYC protest participants is the inequity in where safe bicycling infrastructure exists by neighbourhood, which is interpreted as a form of [[Class discrimination|classism]] within cycling and [[urbanism]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Episode 45: StreetRidersNYC final web transcript |url=https://thewaroncars.org/episode-45-streetridersnyc-final-web-transcript/ |access-date=18 January 2022 |website=The War on Cars |language=en-US}}</ref> The bicycle has acted as a means for women's liberation and thus has [[Bicycling and feminism|links to feminism]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 June 2015 |title=Freewheeling to equality: how cycling helped women on the road to rights |url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2015/jun/18/freewheeling-equality-cycling-women-rights-yemen-bicycle-liberation |access-date=30 July 2021 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>