{"id":4865,"date":"2020-03-25T21:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T20:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cheesysupply.com\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2020-03-25T21:14:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T20:14:46","slug":"ride-like-a-girl-zofia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheesysupply.com\/?p=4865","title":{"rendered":"Ride Like a Girl – Zofia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Name\/location\/discipline<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zofia Kowalczyk aka Zofix
Warsaw\/Poland
Fixed gear<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What does riding mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019m a part of a big family – and I\u2019m not just talking about my closest friends, but all of peeps that ride. It\u2019s that beautiful little thing about this kind of communities. I\u2019m also (for now pretty shitty, but wait for it) a skateboarder and it\u2019s the same thing – wherever you are, you\u2019re part of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And freedom? Actually I don\u2019t know how to explain this. It\u2019s the feeling when it is just you and your bike – it could be in a crowded city, forest or while riding along beautiful beach – in the end it doesn\u2019t matter. I have 4 loves of my life that gives me this feeling – fixed gear, snowboard, skateboard and analog photography. I can\u2019t pick one, they\u2019re very different, but when one of them is missing, I\u2019m not 100% me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is your favourite set up?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My favourite set up is of course my current bike! I\u2019m riding a custom Mielec frame with little lo-pro with carbon Aventon fork, Factory5 lattice chainring (fuckin\u2019 love it), Omnium crank, H+Son Archetype rims, Miche Pista hubs, carbon riser, Cinelli Pista stem and my favourite Continental 4 season tires – they\u2019re indestructible!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But if I could get whatever I want, I would definitely pick Cannondale Track frame from 1995\u2019 or my best friend\u2019s bike – he has black lo-pro, which looks like a devil and I love it with all my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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pic. Tomasz Seruga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Do you think the environment is male dominated?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well…there are more men riding, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s really dominated by them. Or maybe I should say – I don’t feel like I\u2019m in a male dominated environment. That\u2019s kinda natural that when there\u2019s more men or women the atmosphere is not the same, but I never felt like an outsider because of my gender. Every year more and more girls starts to ride, build\/fix their bikes or just get to know this culture. And I\u2019m not talking about those girls from instagram pics that are just posing on fixed gears in short skirts, I\u2019m talking about all girls that actually RIDE!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Any riding plans for the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t like making plans for things like that. All I want is to still have so much fun of riding my fixed gear. The best of my \u201cbike memories\u201d are the result of spontaneous decisions. So my only plan is to not have one and enjoy every second of it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ride like a girl is a series of interviews with WTF (women *trans femme) riders from around the world. If you would like to be contributed drop us an email.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019m a part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ride-like-a-girl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheesysupply.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheesysupply.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheesysupply.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheesysupply.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheesysupply.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cheesysupply.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4879,"href":"https:\/\/cheesysupply.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/4879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheesysupply.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheesysupply.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheesysupply.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheesysupply.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}