The Ride of the Fancy Women (2025)

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 begins 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

• YEG 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).

Need cycle-chic inspiration? See the video made in 2023:

https://vimeo.com/948909621