For Immediate Release:
Are you a lady who wants to race downhill? Do you know a lady who wants to race downhill? Calling all girls of any age who just wanna have fun.
As an ongoing effort to get more women and girls into racing and riding downhill, I'm so excited to announce that a race fund has been set up to cover any race entry fee for first-time female racers in 2015 as part of the #ProvingPossible project.
We're looking for gals who've always wanted to try the sport out and have the desire to enter a race and fall in love with an amazing sport!
This opportunity is available to women and girls of any age and category who have never raced downhill and includes 1 race entry fee cost as well as all-female DH race clinics during the 2015 race season at select race venues across the US and Canada. If you or someone you know is interested, please send an email to
info@amandabatty.com with your name, email address, location, race date and cost, then spread the word! Let's get more ladies on bikes!
The
#ProvingPossible project is an ongoing effort to inspire women to 'Prove Your Own Possible'and push their limits by trying new sports and pushing female progression and inclusion inside of the action sports industry. Check out the hashtag and submit your own
#ProvingPossible moments on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter using the
#ProvingPossible and
#GirlsOnBigBikes hashtags!
-DM
This happens at Keystone, CO during the summers, probably the best opportunity for women I've seen (although I wish it were longer than 1.5 hours):
Women's Wednesday Mountain Bike Clinics
Come shred Keystone Bike Park with other girls every Wednesday from June 18 - August 27. For $30 you can get a lift ticket, bike, helmet and protective gear rental from 3:30 - 5 p.m. at Keystone Sports, and guided riding down the mountain with a coach from the Beti AllRide Clinic. This is the perfect opportunity to give lift-accessed riding a try and meet other women to ride with. To reserve a spot call Activities and Dining 970-496-4fun.
Clinics can be expensive and semi-cost prohibitive, which is why beginners without ties to the racing scene may be hesitant to try them, but hopefully we can change that with a bit more understanding about the value that lies in clinic attendance and learning from people who know how to teach.
Huge thanks to Pinkbike for putting this out there and helping pull together all of these women. 2015 is going to be a stellar year for female racing and riding!
www.amandabatty.com/#!provingpossible/cdaj
Thank you for doing this...it's pretty amazing of you.
Thanks for being so rad and supporting this effort!
I also wanted to give women who are fresh off of a season of DH, trail riding or just spectating a chance to capitalize on their post-season excitement and get them looking forward to a great year in 2015, as well as offer the women in the Southern Hemisphere a chance to get out there during their summer (which is fast approaching).
We'll announce this again throughout the NA winter and again in the spring as a last-minute opportunity for women who have decided they want to race, but the goal is to go into this with as much planning and preparation as possible. Thanks for the support!