Tag: women

May 10, 2012

Celebrate Mother’s Day with a women-only ride: Critical Lass

Forget free waterfront parking and treat your mother to some real fun: Critical Lass. The first ever Seattle Critical Lass ride leaves the Ballard Library Sunday at 2 p.m. for an easy, welcoming cruise for women of all biking abilities. Also, I hear there will be Cyclo Femme temporary tattoos. Critical Lass joins Seattle’s growing…
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tagged: critical lass, cyclo femme, events, menstrual monday, real active women, women
March 6, 2012

Bucking bike commute trend, majority of riders on 70-mile Alleycat Acres ride were women

Saturday’s 70-mile Alleycat Acres fundraising bike ride was no walk in the park. It included miles of busy highway shoulders and a 700-foot climb to the high-ground United People’s Farm in Auburn. Many people I talked to said it was by far the longest bike ride they had ever done. Compared to this ride, biking…
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tagged: alleycat acres, elly blue, liz nixon, streets and beets 2012, women
March 8, 2011

International Women’s Day reading: Bicycles and equality

Anne-Marije Rook wrote up a little post on her blog about women and bicycling in honor of International Women’s Day. If you have never read about the link between bicycles and women’s sufrage and social equality, I’d say now is the time to do it. Fascinating. I bet you didn’t know that bicycle between your…
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tagged: anne-marije rook, history, international women’s day 2011, women
September 16, 2010

New women bikers in NYC

Women In Motion: New Lady Riders Reflect on NYC Cycling from Streetfilms on Vimeo. As we were counting bikers yesterday morning, it quickly became clear that most of the bikers were male. This is not really a surprise, as previous surveys have shown large gender disparities in bike commuting in the U.S. But I guess…
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tagged: streetfilms, women