{"id":164867,"date":"2018-05-18T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T12:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=164867"},"modified":"2018-05-18T12:57:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T12:57:38","slug":"cyclofemme-building-confidence-building-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/05\/18\/cyclofemme-building-confidence-building-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"CycloFemme: Building Confidence, Building Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many of us perceive bicycles just as convenient transportation and commuting tools but you don&#8217;t even have to dig that deep into history to realise that they played a significant role in women&#8217;s rights and empowerment since the end of the nineteenth century. If we start with suffragettes and fast forward to the present, we discover multiple initiatives focused on a bicycle as a mean to boost independence and confidence, among them the CycloFemme project, founded by Sarai Snyder in 2012, with Tanya Quick and Jenn Cash joining her later.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Their website manifesto reads: \u201cWe believe that strong communities are built around strong women. That being on a bike bring us closer to our community, to nature, and to ourself. That from action comes change. That our hope, courage, and strength is amplified when we unite.\u201d As many studies have shown, women are still less likely to participate in public sports activities, such as cycling, and those same studies tell us that the main reasons for this are societal pressure connected to appearance judgement and logistical obstacles \u2013 they still carry out most of the tasks connected to child and household care. Furthermore, thanks to those factors, women are less likely to reach out to or even know about groups with similar interests in their area. And that&#8217;s what the CycloFemme is trying to change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/05\/WBR_BW-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-164872\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/05\/WBR_BW-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1051\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-164867 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/05\/PHOTO2.webp'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/05\/PHOTO2-242x300.webp\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/05\/PHOTO2-242x300.webp 242w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/05\/PHOTO2.webp 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/05\/tattoo.webp'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/05\/tattoo-242x300.webp\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/05\/tattoo-242x300.webp 242w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/05\/tattoo-825x1024.webp 825w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/05\/tattoo-768x953.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/05\/tattoo.webp 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Besides asking their members and supporters to pledge to \u201cswear to invest energy, strength, and passion to inspire one more woman to ride a bike\u201d, their website features a bulletin board where anybody can post information about a group ride they&#8217;ve organised in their neighbourhood and anyone is welcome to join. Anyhow, the main event that brings the whole CycloFemme community together is the annual Women&#8217;s Day Ride on May 13 that takes place worldwide and which thousands of women and girls all over the globe join under the \u201cWhen we ride together, we rise together\u201d slogan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ys-post-pinup\"><article class=\"loop-simple post-164227 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-urban-cycling tag-homeless tag-homeless-women tag-london tag-women-cycling\" data-postid=\"164227\" role=\"article\" data-post-id=\"164227\" data-word-count=\"487\" data-headline-length=\"57\" data-category=\"Urban cycling\" data-author=\"Frantiska Blazkova\" data-published=\"2018-04-13T07:31:18+00:00\" data-published-day=\"Friday\">\n    <div class=\"entry-thumbnail article-thumbnail\" content=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/04\/profimedia-0348417435-1-150x150.webp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/04\/13\/taking-back-independence-cycling-club-for-homeless-women\/\" class=\"image-holder\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/04\/profimedia-0348417435-1.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/04\/profimedia-0348417435-1.webp 900w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/04\/profimedia-0348417435-1-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/04\/profimedia-0348417435-1-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/04\/profimedia-0348417435-1-272x182.webp 272w\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1200px) 300px, (min-width: 768px) 25vw, 100vw\" alt=\"taking-back-independence-cycling-club-for-homeless-women\"\/><\/a><\/div>    <div class=\"entry-meta\">\n        <a class=\"label label-secondary post-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/category\/urban-cycling\/\" title=\"Urban cycling\">Urban cycling<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"entry-details\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/04\/13\/taking-back-independence-cycling-club-for-homeless-women\/\" class='entry-title-wrapper'>\n            <h3 class=\"entry-title\"><span>Taking Back Independence: Cycling Club for Homeless Women<\/span><\/h3>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some of the main CycloFemme&#8217;s underlining motives is to promote positive societal change, sense of liberation and healthy body love, the chance to reconnect with oneself, and the feeling of connecting with a like-minded community. An this doesn&#8217;t just concern cities and towns of the so called western world. CycloFemme also joined forces with the World Bicycle Relief organisation, about which efforts on the African continent we&#8217;ve informed in this article, and helps them provide Buffalo Bikes to girls in Zambia since 2017. In this context, the bicycle is an important step towards freedom, education, and better life opportunities as it helps African women and girls with carrying their daily chores out faster while giving them enough time to attend school and study.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BhFKvGgDgnx\/?taken-by=cyclofemme<\/p>\n<p>CycloFemme&#8217;s main message stands proud and loud at the head of their website and states: \u201cTO HONOR THE PAST from the shoulders of those who stood before us, for the freedom to choose and the chance to wear pants. TO CELEBRATE THE PRESENT with strength and courage, voices raised, moving together. TO EMPOWER THE FUTURE of women everywhere, the backbone of positive social change.\u201c And we&#8217;re big fans of it all. Check out their website for more motivation and maybe you&#8217;ll even get ispired to organize your own local ride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us perceive bicycles just as convenient transportation and commuting tools but you don&#8217;t even have to dig that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":164875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[1975,1977,1976],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-164867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-cyclofemme","tag-jenn-cash","tag-tanya-quick"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CycloFemme: Building Confidence, Building Communities - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many of us perceive bicycles just as convenient transportation and commuting tools but you don&#039;t even have to dig that deep into history to realise that\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/05\/18\/cyclofemme-building-confidence-building-communities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CycloFemme: Building Confidence, Building Communities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Many of us perceive bicycles just as convenient transportation and commuting tools but you don&#039;t even have to dig that deep into history to realise that\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/05\/18\/cyclofemme-building-confidence-building-communities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-05-18T12:56:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-05-18T12:57:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/05\/44545455454_44444248.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Frantiska Blazkova\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/05\/18\/cyclofemme-building-confidence-building-communities\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/05\/18\/cyclofemme-building-confidence-building-communities\/\",\"name\":\"CycloFemme: Building Confidence, Building Communities - 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