Ride of the Fancy Women
Sunday, June 8, 2025
12:00pm to 3:30pm
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Bring your whimsy & glamour to advocate for safer women-welcoming bicycle infrastructure & to celebrate bicycles as women's freedom machines
SAVE THE DATE! Every year on the second Sunday of June, we don our heels, fancy hats, and favourite outfits. We decorate our bikes with flowers, ribbons, or bells. We slow roll through our city, waving, smiling and reminding our city adminstrators, councillors and neighbours that women enjoy using bicycles to commute to work, run errands, get kids to school, go out for dinner or a movie and otherwise get around our city. And to do this, we need safe, well-designed infrastructure.
The Ride of the Fancy Women welcomes persons of all genders, all ethnicities, all ages. We especially invite women who don't normally feel comfortable riding in the city: come, join your sisters and have fun on a bike.
Route for 2025 is TBA, but we will begin at McKernan Park. If you have a suggestion, tell us at @FWBR_yeg@yegbike (Fediverse) or @fancywomenbikeyeg.bsky.social (Bluesky).
Please help amplify! Tell your workmates, neighbours, everyone. Post to your socials. Here is some text to use:
The Ride of the Fancy Women is an Edmonton tradition. We don our fave cycle chic & slow roll to proclaim:
•Bicycles are women's freedom machines
•Bicycles fight traffic congestion
•Bicycles fight climate change
•City streets must welcome women to bike!
Oil your chain. Pump your tires. Choose your bike chic. RSVP in Eventbrite or on Facebook (or, just show up with your wheels).
7535 112 Street NW
Edmonton, AB, T6G 0C4