Celebrate Women's MTB Day!
2018 is the inaugural year for International Women's Mountain Biking Day, a celebration event to take place the first Saturday of May. Join us on 5-5-18 simply by experiencing, sharing and expressing your love of mountain biking!
#womensmtbday
Community-driven
Women’s Mountain Biking Day came out of the 2018 IMBA UPRISING event, our first-ever women’s conference. Attendees were encouraged to share their best ideas for engaging more women in mountain biking. A day dedicated to women enjoying mountain biking with each other and encouraging fellow women to join them was dreamed up by Andree Sanders of Trips for Kids Metro New York. Thank you for inspiring us!
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How do I participate?
Women’s Mountain Biking Day will be social-media driven in 2018. Organizations and individuals are encouraged to use the day as a catalyst for grassroots engagement, festivals, rides, awareness campaigns and other activities to both celebrate and encourage women mountain biking.
Plan a special ride with your girlfriends; take your mom or daughter or sister for her first-ever mountain bike ride; get people together specifically to practice skills; or host an organized women-only mountain bike ride via a local bike club or shop.
Organize a women’s-only trail volunteer day. Give them an opportunity to learn about trail maintenance and proper tool use, then get dirty supporting their favorite trail. Consider that attendees may have young children and offer an option to show up for a few hours, rather than requiring they attend an all-day event deep in the backcountry.
Host a women’s-only skills night or advocacy talk. It can be as simple as how to do bike maintenance. Or, give a presentation about how to get more involved in trails and outdoor recreation in their community. How can women mountain bikers advocate for more resources, access, youth programming and more where they live?
Host a women’s night at a local bike shop. Show inspirational films, network, swap stories and make new friends. Get to know who is in the mountain biking community and give those who are curious but nervous a chance to come out and ask questions in a friendly environment.
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has issued an official proclamation declaring May 5, 2018, as Women’s Mountain Biking Day! It is an honor that the Governor recognizes the important role women play for mountain biking in communities across Colorado. Can your elected officials and community leaders help amplify your #womensmtbday message?
IMBA UPRISING
This special event is a gathering for women who want to make change in their communities by getting more women involved in mountain biking.
Storytelling
Explore our collection of blogs about engaging more women in mountain biking plus personal, inspirational stories from female riders.
However you ride, wherever you ride and whenever you ride, we hope you’ll ride with us. Frequency, skill, speed or equipment aren't the things that make you a mountain biker. Passion—love for the knobby-tire ride—makes you a mountain biker.
Katherine Fuller
IMBA
Meet the crew
IMBA currently employs eight female staff. We are a signatory of the CAMBER Outdoors CEO pledge, a commitment of outdoor industry organizations to attract, retain and advance women in their workplaces.
Cycling, and mountain biking, in particular, has had a profound existence throughout my life. Riding my bike makes me feel better as a person and allows me the freedom to explore places I never thought imaginable. I joined IMBA because somewhere between the experiences of riding a mountain bike and the products we use to do it is the glue that holds that opportunity together. I believe that being part of a team of mountain bikers that works hard, learns from failures, and remains persistent can only lead preservation and future gains in access.
Meet our teamAimee Ross
Brand and Events Director
