Category: Ride like a girl

Ride Like a Queer – Exe Irl

Name: Exe Irl (they/them, il/y) Location: Montréal (My base is here, but just love to be on the move, obviously, now, with Covid, of course it ever changing) Discipline: All of it. I ride pretty much all kinds of bikes, I rotate in between them. At some point this summer I had 6, now I’m…
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30/10/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Fatima

Name: Fatima Minor Location: Moscow, Russia Discipline: Fixed gear What does riding mean to you? Speed and independence. I bought my first fix with the intention of quick moving across the city and being less in the underground, because Moscow is a constant rush for me. It takes 4 hours of commuting by train every…
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25/09/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Julia

Name: Julia Ida Pantkowska Location: Barcelona (I’m actually originally from Poland but grew up in the in Manchester UK I’ve been living in Spain for 3 years now. Right now in Barcelona) Discipline: I really love cyclocross and gravel, currently you might spot me in the city with a Omnium cargo though. What does riding…
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10/09/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Amanda

Name/location/discipline Amanda Bryan and I hail from Bellingham, WA (USA) but I currently live in Fayettville, WV. I enjoy many different disciplines of the sport but I mostly identify as a mountain biker. My riding preference is more on the gravity spectrum of MTB’ing but I also really enjoy multi-day bikepacking adventures or spending an afternoon…
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24/08/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Siri

Name: Siri Tolander Location: Stockholm/Sweden Discipline: Mostly fixed but putting together a road bike and I do very much enjoy touring. What does riding mean to you? It’s pretty much an obsession and a big part of my life. I hardly ever train but I ride every day. It has given me a job, a lot of friends,…
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14/07/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Eva

Name: Eva RiebLocation: BerlinDiscipline: fixed gear / fixed freestyle What does riding mean to you? On the one hand, generally speaking, cycling through the streets is how freedom feels to me. The daily pattern is what keeps you running – somehow – but rather like a hamster in a running wheel. And when do you…
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25/06/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Karo

Name: Karolina Grzybowska / Principessa on the bikeLocation: Barcelona / SpainDiscipline: road/ fixed gear/ track I’m from Warsaw, but since May 2019, I have been living in Barcelona. I mainly do road, but I also love my fixie, which I use for city rides and commuting. My track bike is for velodrome rides – I…
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10/06/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Dazie

Name/location/discipline Dazie HoltBrooklyn New YorkRoad, Track/fixed crits, Gravel/off-road What does riding mean to you? Riding, to me and probably most people, is pure freedom. I come and go and do whatever I want as I please without waiting for other people or transportation schedules. I always joke that riding a bike to me is like when…
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16/05/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Kristina

Name/location/discipline Kristina/Malmö/Fixed gear What does riding mean to you? Riding is my everyday life. As a bike messenger – I make my living by riding. I commute almost everywhere by bike and this gives me loads of independence from public transport systems. In the rare cases that I actually walk, I feel weird and slow.…
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22/04/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Zofia

Name/location/discipline Zofia Kowalczyk aka ZofixWarsaw/Poland Fixed gear What does riding mean to you? When I think of riding a bike, first things that come to my mind are: friends, freedom and commuting. I love the fact, that I met so many great people because of this little riding thing. I feel like I’m a part…
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25/03/2020