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Oliver Schick
sure this video must have done the rounds by now but it's short (under ten mins) and the last two minutes really sum up a lot of my feels about riding with other rad ladies:
http://www.itchy-themovement.com/fixed-on-fixed/
ITCHY was born out of our love of fixed gear track bikes, nature and culture.
Also from a grim evidence of male hegemony in the bicycle world which makes
it difficult for girls to have visibility and acquire social value as cyclists
despite there having been some very great female representatives of the sport.
Besides generating multimedia knowledge ITCHY want to create a global team with
a focus on women who ride in fixed gear. With the intention of organizing local
events and also on a larger more ambitious scale to once a year organize a mass
meeting somewhere in the world to ride a long route together and have lots of fun!
Although we have a specific focus on female fixed gear cyclists we also welcome
all female cycling enthusiasts even if you ride with gears, singlespeed, BMX etc.
Virginia and Melissa (sanso) x
i run the risk of sounding like a soppy git but all the women i've met in london through riding fixed have been vivacious, intelligent, super cool and genuinely really nice people. videos like this remind me of why i love organising fun things to do and ride bikes and why i'm so happy when i meet other women who love it too.
i know the video's been around for a bit but i wanted to centralise discussion of organising something regular and fun/motivational, both to progress our own skills and bike handling and city riding, and also to encourage more women to cycle. nothing mega, and nothing onerous, just whatever people want to do, like the ladies have been doing with the "DO ALL THE THINGS" initiative; i've benefited so much already for our rad excursions! @mands mentioned a regular ride she was interested in?
i'm also not forcing anyone to join in if you think it's lame, haha. whatever you're comfortable with - i just want to ride moar bikes and enjoy the friendship that comes out of it!