Category: Ride like a girl

Ride Like a Girl – Julka

Name: Julka PlenzlerLocation: Poznan/ PolandDiscipline: fixed gear/ bike polo What does riding mean to you? Last year I started riding a fixed gear and immediately fell in love with it. For me cycling is a way of spending my free time and the best form of transport. You don’t need money, driving license, all you…
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09/03/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Trine

Name/location/discipline I’m based in Copenhagen. I’m mainly doing gravel/cx, MTB and bikepacking but I also (besides some random beaters and city bikes) own a fixie and a road bike which is not been used that much at the moment. Then I sometimes do bikepolo, alleycats and work as a messenger. What does riding mean to…
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25/02/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Kat

Name/location/discipline Name: Kathrin ”Kat” GutzeitLocation: Stockholm, SwedenDiscipline: Fixed, Road, Gravel What does riding mean to you? Riding my bike means freedom in the first place, easy access to places, transportation and consciousness about our environment. I live in the city of Stockholm where there are still too many cars and to ride by all the…
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10/02/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Milan

Name/location/discipline Name: Milana Barbosa Location: Seattle, Washington, USADiscipline: Courier/Cyclist/Prince What does riding mean to you? Riding a bicycle has many different meanings and definitions to me, like it’s my only way to get around beside public transportation. I enjoy traveling and using city transit, but being able to move freely and having the autonomy to…
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30/01/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Anny

Name/location/discipline Anny Vera, I’m from Santiago de Cali, Colombia. I’m urban cyclist, fixed gear racer, bike courier and pro bike activist. I breathe bicycle at all times of my life. What does riding mean to you? It is an indescribable freedom, it has changed my life completely.Riding a bicycle gives me power, desire, joy, I feel that…
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04/01/2020
Ride Like a Girl – Tina

Name/location/discipline Justyna John (but everyone says Tina). I live in Warsaw, Poland. I’m an editor of the 43ride bike magazine. I love downhill but sometimes I also like endure and dirt jumping. What does riding mean to you? Mountainbiking is my whole life except for work in government administration. It’s a way of spending free…
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22/12/2019
Ride Like a Girl – Lorenza

Name/location/discipline Lorenza Walker, living in Oslo, Norway from Stockholm, Sweden. Working as a bike courier and bikepacking whenever I can. What does riding mean to you? My friend asked me this, the summer of 2018. We had just sat down to eat some cold watermelon, after riding over 340 km that day. It was midnight, we…
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05/12/2019
Ride Like a Girl – Leigh

Name/location/discipline Leigh/born in Minnesota (USA) but living in Sydney (Australia)/fixed, cargo, touring What does riding mean to you? I come from the most bike friendly city in the United States – Minneapolis, Minnesota. I remember seeing cycle messengers around the city when I was in my teens and I just thought they seemed rad and…
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12/11/2019
Ride Like a Girl – Julia

Name/location/discipline I’m Julia. I work as a bike mechanic in Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden. At the moment I only own one bicycle, it’s my reliable steel touring bike “Skib” that takes me wherever I want or need to go, all year around! We are doing longer trips as well as the daily commute…
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14/10/2019
Ride Like a Girl – Stefanie

Name/location/discipline Stefanie/Berlin-Bangalore/road and fixed What does riding mean to you? Honestly, to ride my bike means the world to me. Around 4 years back, when I started cycling, I was going through some big changes, I felt lost and disconnected and cycling really helped me to clear my head, free my mind and find a…
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25/09/2019