The Bike Women Bike Club

Find Your Riders. Find Your Adventure.

The Bike Women Bike Adventure Circle is where women connect, discover riders near them, and become part of a growing community built around riding your way.

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. That’s why Bike Women Bike exists—for women finding their way to the bike, finding their way back to the bike, and finding their next adventure on it.

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 Adventure Circle

The Adventure Circle is where the Bike Women Bike movement goes deeper—where women find their riders, build connections, and create the beginnings of a grassroots riding network.

[ Join the Club — $9/month or $90/year → ]

Why the Club Exists

The Adventure Circle is where the Bike Women Bike movement goes deeper—where women find their riders, build connections, and create the beginnings of a grassroots riding network.

It’s not coaching. It’s not a training camp. It’s a place to connect, learn, participate and ride your way.

Join the Adventure Circle to find your riders, build real connections, and be part of a growing movement of women who ride.

What’s Inside the Adventure Circle

🗺️ Find Your Riders — Rider Map + Directory

The heart of the Adventure Circle is connection. See where BWB riders are around the world, discover women riding near you, and learn more about the riders behind the pins.

Add yourself to the Rider Directory, share what you ride and what kind of riding you enjoy, then use Skool messaging to start a conversation.

The network starts here. Conversations can become connections, meetups, rides—and eventually chapters.

🧭 Find Your Adventure — Rider Pathways

Where are you in your cycling journey? Where do you want to go?

Rider Pathways give you optional guides for building mileage, skills and confidence—from Fresh Start to Dream Century.

There’s no “right” pathway and no requirement to progress.

Challenge by Choice. Start where you are. Choose your adventure.

🔥 Monthly Campfire

Once a month, we gather as an entire community.

Talk bikes. Share stories. Celebrate wins. Talk about where you’re riding and where you’re dreaming of going.

It’s a chance to put faces and voices to the women you’ve been meeting in the Circle—and help shape what we’re building together.

☕ Bike Chats

Twice a month, we get together for short, focused conversations about bikes and riding.

Bring your questions. Share what you’ve learned. Get ideas from other women.

Topics can range from gear and skills to routes, confidence and the everyday realities of riding.

Come with a question. Leave with an idea.

🗓️ Monthly Themes + Occasional Challenges

Each month we’ll have a BWB theme that gives us something to explore together.

And from time to time, we’ll launch a challenge to get you riding, learning, connecting or trying something new.

Participate your way. Modify the challenge. Skip it. Cheer someone else on.

Challenge by Choice applies here, too.

🚲 BWB Special Rides & Bike Days

Throughout the year, we celebrate the seasons, women, and the joy of riding with eight BWB community-wide rides.

You don’t have to be in the same place to ride together.

Choose your own route.
Choose your distance.
Choose your pace.
Ride solo or invite another BWB woman to join you.

Then come back to the Circle and share the ride, the photos, the stories and the adventure.

Our annual BWB ride calendar includes:

🚲 New Year’s Day Kickoff Ride — Start the year on two wheels.
🌸 International Women’s Day Ride — March 8 — Ride in celebration of women everywhere.
🌱 Spring Equinox Ride — Welcome spring and get rolling.
🚴‍♀️ National Bike Day Ride — Celebrate the simple joy of riding.
☀️ Summer Adventure Ride — Get out and make the most of summer.
💜 BWB Annual Bike Day — 2nd Sunday of August — Our big annual celebration of Bike Women Bike.
🍂 Fall Equinox Ride — Ride Into Fall — Celebrate the changing season.
❄️ Winter Solstice Ride — Get outside, mark the turning of the year, and keep the wheels moving.

Eight rides. One movement. Women riding everywhere.
We’re hundreds of miles apart—but we can still ride together.

💜 The BWB Community

And then there’s the everyday conversation.

Share a ride photo. Celebrate a win. Ask a question. Tell us about a place you rode. Talk bikes, travel, life or whatever you’re thinking about.

This is a community built by the women in it.

You don’t have to do everything. Find what interests you and jump in.

🚲 Everything BWB in One Place

Your Adventure Circle membership also gives you access to the BWB cycling resources and classrooms, so you can learn, explore and find the information you need without bouncing between platforms.

From getting back on your bike and choosing a bike to gear, riding skills, where to ride and more, the resources are here when you need them.

You’re not just joining a community.

You’re helping build one.

The Rider Map starts with a handful of women.
Those women find each other.
Connections become conversations.
Conversations become meetups.
Meetups become rides.
And, as the network grows, those rides can become Bike Women Bike chapters.
This is how we’re building the movement.

Find Your Riders. Find Your Adventure.

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—for women finding their way to the bike, finding their way back to the bike, and finding their next adventure on it.

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 ($70 for founding members)— 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 few miles, some ride fifty miles. Both get celebrated — loudly.