Fuck yes! Love your outfit and the Hawkins cheerleaders!

Your article was one of my favorite 3 that I found. Independent play and mobility for children is why I do what I do.

My background in fashion and bikes collided when I got to curate the Stranger Things Bike Bus costumes.

No time machine needed—we can give kids the freedom we remember: friends to roam with, and the wheels to get them there.

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I was the epitome of an 80s child. My parents worked full time and it was necessary for me to transport myself and find my own play.

Stranger Things is a powerful memory tug AND a challenge in my Safe Routes to School work to give this generation the free-range childhood that I had.

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Perhaps, most importantly...

"the show has tapped into a very specific type of nostalgia—leaving viewers reminiscing about a time when kids roamed their neighborhoods on bikes, by themselves" @awalkerinla.bsky.social, @curbed.com.

Article: archive.curbed.com/2017/10/25/1...

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"1983. This is science fiction not powered by a vision of the future but a longing for the past."

Both the Bike Bus and the #80sWalkRollClub in Hood River were inspired by that longing for independence, adventure and community through biking.

Article: www.npr.org/2016/07/27/4...

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"the kids set out as a pack of two-wheeled adventurers to save their way of life."

Inverse article: www.inverse.com/article/2015...

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"@strangerthings.bsky.social remind us...when the only care in the world you had was whether you could go ride bikes with your friends after dinner... 🚲 have long preceded other means of mechanical conveyance, and have always represented a sense of emancipation."
Sean Hutchinson, @inverse.com
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One of my proudest "Boston" advocacy moments was being asked to speak for the ribbon cutting of Cambridge's 2nd real cycletrack, Western Ave, and then biking down it with then 4 year-old Annika.

Motherhood slammed my efforts in 5th and this was the first real win.

Moving from platinum birth City of Madison to Boston, then ranked 5 worst in the world for biking, was a wake up call and advocacy boot camp for me.

Lol, I just had to "follow back" Sam...one of the people that I talk to on the phone.