International Women's Day Special

CyclingTips Podcast

CyclingTips

Sports, Technology

4.4 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Happy International Women’s Day! Over the past couple of years, the number of female-identifying cyclists has grown. More women are finding cycling, the joy and the freedom that accompanies hopping on a bike and taking off on an adventure. What continues to bring more women to cycling is the community, the friendships that develop around the bike. To get a sense of where the cycling industry stands when it comes to female-identifying cyclists Abby chatted with two women who are immersed in the industry. Elorie Slater, marketing manager of Pivot Cycles, has put a lot of thought into how to get more female-identifying riders on bikes. Through her experience at her bike shop and within the marketing world of cycling she has connected with other cycling companies to put aside their differences and band together to make cycling a more inclusive and welcome environment. Luisa Grappone, an aerospace engineer for Hunt bike wheels, came to the cycling industry after working with aeroplanes. She has a unique perspective of being a woman in a male dominate field. We at CyclingTips are proud to bring more women’s voices in front of the cycling world and continue to work towards growing cycling to include everyone who loves bikes, just like we do.

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0:16.0	Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Cycling Tips Podcast, I'm Kelly Fritz, and a lot of you will know
0:20.0	that today, the day that this is going up, March 8th,
0:24.0	is International Women's Day.
0:26.0	And so we've put together a special episode for you all.
0:31.0	Actually, specifically, Abby has put together a special episode for you all,
0:36.6	kind of celebrating women in the bike industry and women in bikes in general. Just so everybody knows,
0:42.4	there will be a regular episode as always
0:45.1	this week it'll drop Tuesday morning US time so tomorrow we just thought it was important to run a special episode for International Women's Day.
0:56.0	Abby, what were we talking about today?
0:59.0	Who are we talking to?
1:00.0	Yeah, so I thought for International Women's Day that it would be kind of interesting to get the perspective of two women who really have their finger on the pulse of female identifying riders within the cycling world.
1:15.1	The first person I talked to was Ellery Slater,
1:18.0	who works in marketing for pivot bikes,
1:20.9	company in the United States.
1:23.0	And she really has a lot of really good thoughts
1:27.6	and ideas about getting more female identifying riders
1:30.8	onto bikes and kind of where the industry is going in terms of
1:36.0	growing the number of female identifying riders who are not bike riders but cyclists which he sees is two very different
1:45.6	things someone who who commutes versus someone who you know wears Lycra. The
1:50.9	second person I talked to was Louisa Gropone who works for as an aerospace engineer or as an arrow engineer for hunt wheels and I really wanted to ask her about her experience as a woman within the industry and how she perceives the cycling industry as someone who's working in a very male dominated sport, well a very male dominated profession
2:17.4	within a male dominated sport. Two very interesting conversations about two different realms really of cycling.
2:25.6	Abby before we talk to Elery and Louisa you're also a woman in a male-dominated sport in a male-dominated space and in a male-dominated
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