{"id":14297,"date":"2015-05-08T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=14297"},"modified":"2015-05-08T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T21:34:07","slug":"video-slow-roll-chicago-promotes-community-benefits-of-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/video-slow-roll-chicago-promotes-community-benefits-of-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Slow Roll Chicago promotes community, benefits of cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Anne Arntson<\/p>\n<p>Oboi Reed loves bikes. For those who don\u2019t think cycling is cool, he has two words: \u201cExperience it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reed grew up in Chatham on the South Side, and a bike was how he got around. In middle school, cycling wasn\u2019t cool anymore, so he stopped. But 10 years ago, he used the bike as a vehicle to tackle depression.<\/p>\n<p>Now 41, Reed cofounded Slow Roll Chicago, which advocates for equal bike usage across the city, with childhood friend Jamal Julien last fall. It was inspired by Slow Roll Detroit, which launched in 2010. The group wants to increase bike ridership in the South and West sides and improve health, create jobs and reduce violence.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Slow Roll Chicago promotes community, benefits of cycling\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/127095364?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re on a bicycle, it\u2019s a different way to see the neighborhood,\u201d Reed said. \u201cIt\u2019s a different way to connect with people compared to when you\u2019re in a car surrounded by glass and steel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that biking \u201ccan contribute to reducing obesity, addressing in a positive way, some of the chronic health conditions that communities of color are adversely affected by.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, African-American adults are 70 percent more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes than non-Hispanic adults.<\/p>\n<p>In East Garfield Park on Saturday, the group also took on gender equity with its first women-led community ride, hosted with Women Bike Chicago and Breakthrough Urban Ministries, a poverty relief organization.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Curcio, founding member of Women Bike Chicago, said the partnership was a perfect fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have in common the goal of engaging people from diverse communities in riding bikes for transportation and recreation,\u201d Curcio said, adding that bikes bring people together regardless of socioeconomic status.<\/p>\n<p>Marilyn Winters, who participated in Saturday\u2019s ride, agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is indiscriminatory. Regardless of your race, your nationality, your age, there are bikes made for you,\u201d Winters said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to special rides, Slow Roll Chicago hosts its Signature Ride Series on Wednesday evenings on the South and West sides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are the neighborhoods that need the most bicycle love right now,\u201d Reed said.<\/p>\n<p>The weekly rides are free to the public. For May\u2019s Wednesday ride series, participants will ride with local bike shops.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s ride was Larry Hairl\u2019s first slow roll. \u201cIt\u2019s like a community,\u201d he said of the event. \u201cWe all ride together. I love that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hairl, who tries to bike 2 to 3 miles every day, said he loves the fresh air, and the exercise helps with his arthritis.<\/p>\n<p>To increase ridership on the South and West sides, Slow Roll Chicago is making more bikes available to more people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the realities of low-to-moderate income communities, communities of color here in Chicago, is that a lot of us don\u2019t bike, and we want to address the barrier of people not owning bikes,\u201d Reed said.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the group partnered with Divvy, and Bike and Roll Chicago to provide loaner bikes to participants.<\/p>\n<p>Reed said the idea is just to get people riding and, hopefully, challenge their perceptions of bikes and their communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s beauty everywhere. There\u2019s beautiful parks, there\u2019s beautiful people, beautiful organizations, beautiful architecture, and we want people to experience that to begin to see our communities in a new light,\u201d Reed said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Slow Roll Chicago, Women Bike Chicago and Breakthrough Urban Ministries hosted a community bike ride in East Garfield Park on Saturday, May 2. (Anne Arntson\/Medill)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anne Arntson Oboi Reed loves bikes. For those who don\u2019t think cycling is cool, he has two words: \u201cExperience it.\u201d Reed grew up in Chatham on the South Side, and a bike was how he got around. In middle school, cycling wasn\u2019t cool anymore, so he stopped. 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