The Bike Women Bike Club

Everyday Women. Big Dreams. Bold Rides.

Somewhere in your garage, there’s a bike that remembers you.

It remembers the wind, the long light of a summer evening, the version of you who used to just… go. Life got busy. Work, family, everything else came first. And somewhere along the way, “I ride” quietly became “I used to ride.”

Here’s what I’ve learned after years on the road and years of talking with women just like you: women don’t stop riding because they stop caring. They stop because they lose rhythm and support.

Bike Women Bike exists to give both back.

Two Ways to Ride With Us

The Free Community

Our Facebook group is open to every woman, always free. Inside you’ll find all our guides and challenges, ride celebrations, monthly themes, and hundreds of women cheering each other back onto the bike. If you’re just finding us — start here. You belong already.

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The Bike Women Bike Club

Our smaller campfire. A paid membership for women who want rhythm, real connection, and riders who know their name. Keep reading — the rest of this page is the Club’s story.

Why the Club Exists

Our free community is growing every single day, and I love that. But I know what happens in big spaces — it gets easier to watch and harder to be seen.

The Club is the smaller room. It’s where we gather around the campfire, learn each other’s stories, celebrate every mile, and actually ride together — sometimes on the same weekend, sometimes on the same road.

It’s not coaching. It’s not a training camp. It’s community stewardship — a steady rhythm of connection that makes riding part of your life again, at your pace, on your terms.

What’s Inside

The Rider Pathway

Your journey, made visible. Five stages — Fresh Start, Cruise & Coffee, Flow Rider, Epic Rider, Dream Century — with full guides and progression plans for each. You choose your stage. You set your pace. We celebrate every step. This isn’t a training schedule; it’s a path you walk with women beside you.

The Monthly Campfire

Our signature gathering. One live call a month — intimate, warm, voice-forward. We talk rides, routes, dreams, and the real stuff in between. You’ll leave feeling like you just rode with friends.

Bike Chats — 15 Minutes, Coffee in Hand

Twice a month, we meet for exactly fifteen minutes. One topic, quick wins, real answers — gear questions, where to ride, flat-tire fears, saddle-bag secrets. Start your morning with riders and roll on with your day. We start on time and end on time, every time.

Compass Ride Weekend

Once a month, we all ride — wherever we are, whatever distance we choose. Then we gather in one shared thread with photos and stories. Hundreds of miles apart, somehow on the same ride.

The Rider Map

See Club members near you. This is the feature I might love most — because coffee rides start here. Drop your pin (general area only, always your choice), find the women riding your roads, and turn an online community into a real-life riding friend.

Monthly Roll Call

A simple check-in at the start of each month: what riding looks like for you right now. No minimums, no comparison. Just a community that notices you’re here.

The Bike Lounge

Our off-topic corner — the conversations that keep going after the ride is over. Life, laughter, and everything that isn’t about gear ratios.

What the Club Is Not

This matters as much as what’s inside.

No coaching pressure or performance culture
No weekly obligations or attendance guilt
No comparison, no leaderboards, no “keeping up”
No pressure to be anything but the rider you are this season

Every ride counts. Challenge is by choice. And we never leave anyone behind.

A Note From Donna

I’ve stopped riding more times than I can count.

Stopped in college. Bought a mountain bike years later, rode it, stopped. Bought a road bike. Stopped again. If quitting cycling were a sport, I’d have a shelf of trophies.

But here’s the thing I finally figured out: I never stopped being a rider. The bike just waited.

The time that changed everything came during one of the hardest seasons of my life, when a long relationship ended and I needed to find my way back to myself. I joined a bike club. I started riding — really riding. And the year after finishing a 72-day Outward Bound course, I rode my bicycle across the country.

That ride rearranged my life. I left a secure job to learn how to climb trees and lead high-ropes courses. I earned a master’s degree in outdoor recreation, riding fifteen miles to class and back the whole way through. I spent years directing programs at an outdoor education center. And through all of it — the long hours, becoming a mom, the seasons when the bike gathered dust again — riding kept finding me.

The bike carried me through everything. Through motherhood. Through work that asked for more than I had. Through the deepest grief of my life, after our son died. I know what it means to get on a bike when you don’t know how else to keep moving.

Years later, working in a bike shop, I started noticing the women who came in. Unsure of themselves. Convinced they couldn’t ride, couldn’t balance, couldn’t keep up. Women who said “I used to ride” the way you’d talk about someone you’d lost. I recognized every single one of them — because I had been every single one of them.

That’s why Bike Women Bike exists. Not for the women who never stopped. For the ones who did, and did again, and are wondering if there’s still a way back.

There is. I’ve taken it more times than I can count. These days it looks like gravel roads in Vermont — some of the most beautiful riding on earth — and watching women find their way back, every single day.

Come be one of them.

“The bike doesn’t hold a grudge. It just waits for you.”

Membership

$9/month or $90/year — annual members get two months free.

Your membership does something bigger than open a door: it keeps the free community free. Every guide, every challenge, every resource we give away to thousands of women getting back on their bikes — Club members make that possible. You’re not just joining. You’re holding the door open.

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Questions You Might Be Asking

“I haven’t ridden in years. Is this for me?”

Especially you. The Rider Pathway begins at Fresh Start — a stage built for the woman whose bike has been waiting in the garage. You will not be the only one. You may be the majority.

“What if I can’t make the live calls?”

Then you miss a call, not the community. Recaps land in the group, the threads are always open, and there is zero attendance pressure. The Club fits around your life, not the other way around.

“Is my location shared on the Rider Map?”

Only if you choose to add yourself, and only as a general area — never an address. Challenge by choice applies here too.

“Can I cancel anytime?”

Yes. No hoops, no guilt. And the free community will still be your home.

“Is this a race or fitness group?”

No. Some members ride five minutes, some ride fifty miles. Both get celebrated — loudly.