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WABA's quarterly newsletter.
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WABA History
In 1972, more bicycles were sold than automobiles for the first time in the century. That same year, WABA founder Cary S. Shaw realized that the urban transportation system in the Washington DC Area was not friendly to cyclists. While other cyclists shared the same problems he did, "they did not perceive it as a general problem," Shaw recalled. "Someone caught their bike in a grate-they thought, well, they just caught their bike in a grate-but I could relate to the fact that that was a problem in grate design. Someone had recently bought a bike and they decided they weren't >> more WABA history
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