Detailed description (English): Woman’s visibility in urban spaces is key to claim the right to the city. Cycling is a particularly powerful way for women to become visible in society and a complete new way to interact with the city. The Fancy Women Bike Ride is an event for women, organised by women to remember the liberating joy of cycling and to inspire more women to use bicycles in cities.
Ride a Bike: The more women cycle, the more women will be encouraged to cycle.
The Fancy Women Bike Ride was born in 2013 in Izmir (Turkey) to ask the Mayor to celebrate World Car Free Day and to demand that cities create a welcoming space for women to cycle and interact with the city in a whole new way. We all deserve safe ways to walk and ride bikes.
Target group(s): Women
Cycling beginners
Activists for active mobility
Objectives: -free mobility for women
-bicycle as a means of transportation
-Car Free Sunday, once in a Year, on third Sunday in september
-Car Free Day on September 22th
- empowerment of women
- empowerment of cyclists
Partner: Fancy Women Bike Ride