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Update: the #FancyWomenBikeRide #FWBRyeg is TOMORROW and this is the current forecast! Hot damn. It’s fancy dress time! 🥳🚴‍♀️

Sadly I’m a bit too chubby right now for the dress I’d ideally have wanted to wear. 😢 But I have an alternative that should be almost as awesome. See you all soon!

#YEGbike #BikeTooter

#FancyWomenBikeRide #FWBRyeg

Some excerpts from the email sent out to those signed up:

12:30pm: We'll gather at City Hall.
•Councillor Ashley Salvador will share an update on the $100M Bike Network project.
•We'll take a group photo glamour shot.
~1pm: we'll ride a circuit around Churchill Square, with our littlest, youngest riders and any cargobikes leading, ringing our bells all the way. /1

This is a slow roll. The point is to have fun, and to be visible, to be seen, to remind the city that women want safe, pleasant, welcoming infrastructure so that we can engage with our urban space, and comfortably use our bicycles to run errands, attend the symphony or go out for dinner, go on a ride with kids or lovers, or just commute to school or work, year-round. We also want to show our neighbours that good bike infrastructure brings beautiful things to the neighbourhood. /2

The route: we'll set off on the 102Ave bike lane and wend our way slowly through downtown, then cross the High Level bridge on the west side. After we climb the hill to the Garneau Lamp, we'll rest (It's all downhill after this). We'll head along Saskatchewan Drive to 106 St, and the fun Trolley Track. From there we'll ride through Old Strathcona towards the Bonnie Doon bridge, pass by Faculté St-Jean, and end the ride at Café Bicyclette. It's just over 8km. /3

If you haven't yet signed up, THERE'S STILL TIME to decide to join us! Here's the link:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/fancy-women-bike-ride-2023-edmonton-tickets-681521718807

Fancy Women Bike Ride 2023 (Edmonton)

FANCY. FIERCE. FUN. You are invited to join the Edmonton Fancy Women Bike Ride on Sunday Sept 17, 2023.

Eventbrite

Sep 17, 2023

Update: The decidedly unwelcome #smoke is SUPER harshing my vibe today (of COURSE the first year it's actually warm enough, Edmonton's #FancyWomenBikeRide gets #SmokedOut, grr), but as you all well know, I've got a #MaskArt mask for that (for the benefit of anyone who's ever wanted to see one of them on someone's face rather than just on the counter!).

See those of you this level of smoke doesn't mess with too badly!

Likely Jan Lukas Sep 17, 2023

@IPEdmonton

I hope that if it goes ahead, everyone is masked well, fancy or otherwise!

And also: that everyone has a great time. 🙂

KatyMackay Sep 16, 2023

@IPEdmonton The length is manageable but you then have to get back home (no longer in a protective mass) or to transit to get home. For me, it’s not going to be manageable. If the valley line LRT were open, that would be different. We may or may not come for a the first part and peel off before the High Level Bridge. It was super fun last year, and I was looking forward to it, but the ending spot is disappointing to me.

@KatyMackay I understand. I do think you should come for the first part because that should still be really fun, and you'll get a taste at least!

KatyMackay Sep 16, 2023

@IPEdmonton the only way around it that I have thought of is if we drive in two cars to Cafe Bicyclette, leave one car there, then drive home in the other one, then take the LRT with our bikes to the starting point downtown. And that’s an awful lot of driving for a bike ride!

@KatyMackay It is! (But it might be worth it?)

Also, Café Bicyclette has a GREAT patio...