Women’s Bike And Brunch

from the email:

Bike and Brunch, This Weekend! 

Due to stormy skies in the forecast, the Women’s Bike Month group ride has been moved to Sunday, October 27th. Don’t worry! We’re still ending Women’s Bike Month 2018 with a bang with a weekend-long celebration for women. The festivities kick off Saturday, October 27th with a networking brunch, and conclude with a group ride along the Neponset River Greenway in Mattapan. You don’t want to miss out!

Part 1: Networking Brunch

• Where: Lucy’s American Tavern | 13 Granite Ave, Dorchester
• When: Saturday, October 27th | 11:00 a.m – 2:00

The weekend kicks off with our Women’s Networking Brunch. Food will be served buffet style, and we’ll have lots of giveaways including a specialty branded Bluebikes helmet, Bluebikes membership discounts, and fun plant favors (courtesy of the Urban Farming Institute). You don’t want to miss out on the fun! Just fill out this form to let us know if you’re coming.

Part 2: Women’s Ride

• Where: Mattapan T Stop Station
• When: Sunday, October 28th | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m

The group ride will start and end at the Mattapan T Stop Station, and travel along the beautiful Neponset River Greenway – which includes a protected bike lane that is perfect for a leisurely ride.

All riders are welcome, you just need to know how to ride a bike. Bluebikes will be provided for riders who RSVP.<

RSVP Today

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Help Bring “Half The Road” To Boston

From the email, looks pretty awesome

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Join us at the Fenway Landmark Theater on Wednesday, November 19th at 6:30 pm for a one-time screening of “Half the Road.”  To ensure that the event is a success, tickets should be purchased by November 11th.

Boston’s film scene is about to get velorutionized. On November 19th, Boston Bikes will host a one-time screening of “Half the Road” at the Fenway Landmark Theater. This is an incredible opportunity that we can make happen with your help. The screening last spring at the Kendall Theater sold out in advance, so get your tickets now.

The groundbreaking documentary by pro-cyclist and director Kathryn Bertine explores the passion, pitfalls & power of women’s professional cycling. The film focuses on both the joy of sport and the challenges of inequality that female riders face today in a male-dominated world of cycling. As the filmmakers describe, “We thought we were making a movie about women’s professional cycling. Then it turned into a film about equality, told through the medium of kick a$$ female athletes.”

We’ll follow the screening with some of Boston’s own super star women on wheels — like Sara Bresnick, who has been a professional cyclist since 2002, competing nationally and internationally at mountain, road, and cyclocross events. Join us for this discussion and Q&A about the realities for female cyclists.

Boston bike friends, this is our chance to see this film on the big screen at the Fenway Landmark Theater. But tickets have to be sold in advance! Grasp life by the handlebars and get your ticket NOW. (Then get another for your best buddy cause no one’s going to want to miss this film).

Here’s what the Village Voice had to say about “Half the Road.” Powerful stuff, let’s make sure Boston gets to see it.

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Boston’s First Ever Women’s Bike Ride And Festival!

This is pretty awesome, most research shows that when less “risk adverse” groups feel safe doing something it means that it is starting to be perceived as a more mainstream activity.  Hurray for everyone riding bikes!

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From the City:

Register now for our hallmark women’s event of the season, the Boston Women’s Bike Ride & Festival, Saturday August 16th. Save $10 by registering before 11:59 pm on 8/8. Use code EARLYBIKE.

This celebration of women on bikes will be New England’s largest all-women’s ride and festival, and will feature scenic 10, 30, and 50 mile rides, skills clinics, family activities, music, an expo with bike-friendly companies, and more! Seasoned commuters, occasional cyclists, new riders, and kids are all welcome to participate in the event.

Join for just the ride or take part in a workshop taught by some of the best pro cyclists in the area to get tips on mountain biking, commuting, mechanics and more.

Adult learn-to-ride clinics will be offered for new riders or those who can’t remember the last time they were on a bike.

Register now!

Discounted registration is available to low-income Boston residents.

And men on bikes – we love you too! Please join the festival as volunteers, or to cheer on the women in your lives as they take part in the ride.

Please email [email protected] or call 617-918-4343 for more information on discounted registration or to volunteer.

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Boston Womens Bicycle Program Ramps Up

I have mentioned it before but I think it is fantastic that the city is starting a women’s bicycling program.  The cycling world is very much skewed towards the male gender, and there is absolutely no reason why women should be out there in equal or greater numbers.

The fact that they are not illustrates that the system has some problems that need to be fixed.  Be it perceived danger, actual danger, lack of education, cultural shift, or men just being jerks, there is something in our bike system that is keeping ladies from riding.  I am very happy the city has started this program.

So if you are a lady, and want to ride a bicycle, or if you are a lady and already ride a bicycle, or if you are a guy and know a lady who you think would want to ride a bicycle, check below for details on upcoming events!

From the City:

Boston Bikes’ new women’s bike initiative is series of rides, biking socials and “Learn to Ride” classes aimed at spreading the joy and benefits of biking in Boston and encouraging more women to take to the streets by bike.  Events start this weekend:

Mom & Kid ride

June 14, 2014, 11 Am – 2 PM

Meet at Franklin Park Clubhouse

Easy 2.5 mile ride plus face painting, bike decorating and ice cream by J.P Licks.  Discount zoo passes too.  FREE. Register today www.bostonbikes.org/women or call 617-918-4458.

Boston Breakers Women’s Bike Social

June 19, 2014, 5:30 PM

Meet at: Jamaica Pond Boathouse,

A fun weeknight outing by bike,  ride from the JP Boat House to Harvard Stadium, where the Boston Breakers will take on the Seattle Reign. We’re offering free tickets to the soccer match to the fist 30 women to register.  Register today www.bostonbikes.org/women.

For a full list of events, go to: www.bostonbikes.org/women

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Book Review: Bicycling For Women By Gale Bernhardt

Most of the people out on bikes in Boston are men, but this is changing rapidly. As more and more women start to realize just how awesome cycling is they are heading to the bike in droves. Biking is a great way to stay in shape, but it is so much more. You can ride to work, ride to the store, and because the activity relies more on “you and your bike” there is not much of an entry barrier, you really just need a bike, and a helmet to get started. Plus us guys are sick of cycling alone, ladies come on out!

But Women are different from men. From bike fit to nutrition to aging patterns, women ride differently. Most serious cycling books fail to address the specific concerns women have about cycling. In Bicycling for Women, cycling authority Gale Bernhardt discusses all things female for women who love to ride.

Bicycling for Women is up-to-date, smart, and clear. Gale addresses basic questions on bike fit, equipment, and training before moving on to more complex issues like cycling and pregnancy, injury prevention, nutrition and diet plans, and making cycling more comfortable. The book features five detailed training plans to help women meet their cycling goals, including 50-mile and century rides, improved hill climbing, and multi-day bike tours.

If you have been thinking about getting back on a bike, or maybe picking one up for the first time, and you also happen to be a female, this book could help you do just that. I gave the book to a friend of mine (who happens to be of the female persuasion) and asked her to take a look at it. She rides currently so I am not sure if it this book would encourage her to start, but she did think that the “diagrams and work outs are interesting, and helpful.” She joked about how she always sees guys in roadie kit and wants to just blast past them to show them they got “beat by a girl.”

I have pretty liberal/radical/progressive views on gender and gender relations, so I am not going to turn this review into a “us vs them” kind of debate, because honestly I don’t think it is. But there are things that women have to contend with when they get into cycling. For a long long time bikes were built by guys for guys. In the past trying to find a frame for a shorter (to me) female friend turned out to be a huge challenge. Bicycling for women, can help women overcome some of these barriers, and get to the good stuff, namely riding your bike! This book packs some serious knowledge (charts, graphs, diagrams, etc) so if you want to get into cycling in a comprehensive way this might be a good read. If you are a super newbie beginner you will still find useful information here, but you will most likely “grow into” this book over time.

According to the little blurb I was sent:

Gale Bernhardt has coached and instructed athletes since 1974, and was selected to be the USA Triathlon team coach at the 2004 Olympic Games. An elite-certified USA Cycling Level I Coach, she has also served as the Chairperson of the USA Triathlon National Coaching Committee for five years. Bernhardt has traveled the world as a USA Triathlon World Cup coach. Bernhardt is the best-selling author of Training Plans for Multisport Athletes, Triathlon Training Basics, and Workouts in a Binder(r): Swim Workouts for Triathletes.

So you can probably trust that she gives pretty good advice. I read through the first half of the book and was pretty impressed with the comprehensive approach to getting you on the bike, and getting you ready to ride. So ladies, if you are looking to get into cycling, and don’t want to have to rely on a bunch of dudes advice pick up this book and get going! If you are in favor of the men folk, you will find lots of good looking fellas out on the road, and if you don’t like the gents, you will still find a lifestyle full of fun people, and increasingly lots of ladies. I am a big propenent of getting as many people (of any gender/sex combination) out on a bike, if getting this fine book will help with that well what are you waiting for!

See you on the road ladies.

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