Uses of bicycleThe meaning of bicycle in three generations - now is a toy

ANA SANTOS asantos@fmh.ulisboa.pt

Family’s Photo Genealogy related

with bicycle

Sample

• 180 students (mostly with 19 years old), respective parents, and grand parents

• Total - 1228 people inquired: 354 millennials, 334 parents, 540 grand-parents

Data sources:

• Life stories related with the bicycle

• Collect family’s photos related with bicycle

• Questionnaire to get the socio-economic characterisation and the habits related with the nature of the use of the bicycle - leisure, means of transportation or competition sports practices

Number of photos in life’s stories

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175

350

525

700

Decade50’ 60’ 70’ 80’ 90’ 2000’ 2010'

673

199

110

243460

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Grand-Parents’s Photos

68% used bicycle for personal transport

Grand-Parents’s Photos

only 3 of 273 use bicycle - leisure only 6 of 273 use bicycle for personal transportation

76% of women didn’t learn

Parents’s childhood: few photos with a tricycle - mostly from upper class

Parents’s childhood: few photos and few bicycles Bicycle was a desire, an expensive object

New models appeared in middle 70’s

Chopper - the coolness bicycle

Millennials’s childhood in three years - 2 tricycles & 1 bicycle

Millennials’s childhood in four years - 1 tricycle & 2 bicycles

Gendered bicycles

Gendered bicycles

86% don’t have bicycle

Grand-Parentsthe meaning of bicycle

mostly mobility & races until early 70’

• The generation that moves from family’s bicycle to family’s car

• 69% males use car for personal transportation

• 23% females use public transportation or walk

• 48% being driven by the husband

Parentsthe meaning of bicycle

mostly leisure & races

• The generation that has the desire to have a bicycle

• that goes to school walking and in public transports

• that get the own car after university

• 84% males & 81% females use car for personal transportation

• When they use bicycle - in 70% of cases the main motive is leisure

Millennials

the meaning of bicycle the Toy

leisure & races • The generation that has more

bicycles in the life • that parents drive to school that goes to university with own car • 57% use car for personal

transportation • 27% Public transportation

because they’re far way from home • 11% walk because they are far way

from home living near the Faculty • When they use bicycle - in 79%

of cases the main motive is leisure