Ride of the Fancy Women, YEG2025 & 2024
What does glam and whimsy look like? This is what glam and whimsy looks like!
The co-organizers of the Ride of the Fancy Women. @NicolaDinicola & @HyL
Because #WomenRideBikes #WomenDeserveBikeLanes
Fancy Women Bike Ride FAQs:
•May men join in?
Men may join, but please remember this is a women-led event. A great way to support us is to help marshal at intersections, take photos, or amplify the event on social media (use #FancyWomenRide, #FWBRyeg or #WomenRideBikes). Be mindful that, in sporting a top hat & cane in the 2023 ride, Pablo has set the style bar high!
•May men join in?
Men may join, but please remember this is a women-led event. A great way to support us is to help marshal at intersections, take photos, or amplify the event on social media (use #FancyWomenRide, #FWBRyeg or #WomenRideBikes). Be mindful that, in sporting a top hat & cane in the 2023 ride, Pablo has set the style bar high!
In 2023, 150 women gathered to ride through the city of Edmonton, wearing heels, flowers, hats, lace, velvet --whatever made them feel fabulous-- to advocate for more, better, safer infrastructure that makes women feel welcome to use their bicycles for daily transportation. Wildfire smoke blanketed the city, a tangible reminder of the environmental urgency of their message.
Fancy Women Bike Ride, Edmonton 2023.mp4
The Fancy Women Bike Ride is this Sunday!!
Here's a video from Milan's 2021 ride:
https://fb.watch/m-F9F8Yyro/?mibextid=dub8oA&startTimeMs=11796
Many many years ago when Sema and Pinar wrote the manifesto of the Fancy Women Bike Ride, they decided to promote individual participation and encourage women to represent only themselves.
11 years, 200 cities later, the 'rules' are simple: any woman can organize a ride. Organizations/men may amplify, but women lead. Dress to feel fabulous. Take photos. Wave, smile, enjoy! Demonstrate to your city, what it *could* be.
Your authenticity matters!
HAPPY WORLD CYCLING DAY!!
#WomenRideBikes
#CyclingLife
#BikeTooter
#CycleScrolling
#SolarPunk
HAPPY WORLD CYCLING DAY!
Dr. Young-Leslie 🇨🇦The BBC's groundbreaking Anna Holligan ("Dutch News from the Cyclepath") and colleague Kate Vandy launch the "Bike Bureau", a mobile, two-wheeled studio and office for green broadcasting:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-65511794
If only @cbcnewsedmontonbot would follow the BBC's lead!
#news #bbcnews #bakfiets #cargobike #greeninnovation #WomenRideBikes
(To follow on birdsite: @annaholligan ✌️ 🚴 💚
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Your friend can ask us for help, or clarification on anything. A DM on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook might be easiest?
Thank *you* so much for caring enough to ensure joining in would be safe, comfortable, fun for her.
If it would help to see photos, there are lots on our Insta: @FWBRyeg.
🙏@IPEdmonton🙏 you're the best for advocating ❣️
Here's news coverage from the 2022 ride:
https://edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2022/09/18/edmonton-fancy-women-bike-ride/