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Women in riding

Profiles and stories from your fellow female riders.

A long night: 24-hour enduro champion

Just how numb can your bum get? Christy Harris is more qualified to answer than most, finds Emma Clark.

Cycling for two

Meet Nicola Dunnicliff-Wells, 38 weeks pregnant and still riding

Delores Stafrace: volunteer WARBY on the Great Victorian Bike Ride

Supporting first-timers on the Great Victorian Bike Ride can be exhausting, but if, like Delores Stafrace, you love bikes and helping, it's also very rewarding

Emma Ringer: girl + bike website creator

Nicola Dunnicliff-Wells caught up with Emma to talk bikes and binary code

Hand a girl a spanner: female mechanics

A passion for the inner workings of the bicycle isn’t just a male thing. Julia Thorn met two female bike mechanics giving the boys a run for their money

Judy Slatyer

Running the global guidebook company Lonely Planet hasn't dampened Judy Slatyer's sense of adventure. Instead, riding to work has become part of her journey

Just one of the girls

A preference for chainrings over diamond rings? It can be very feminine, says Laura Williamson.

Nicole Cooke: UK road cycling star praises Australia

Champion Welsh cyclist Nicole Cooke says the UK should look to Australia for inspiration on bike paths and facilities

Pushing on through the night

Just how numb can your bum get? Christy Harris is more qualified to answer than most, finds Emma Clark.

Raising the bar

Ranging in age from 28 to 58, these women ventured outside their everyday comfort zones to find out what they were made of

Riding during pregnancy

Bike riding can help maintain your wellbeing during pregnancy

Super commuter!

One perfect day we'll all be riding to work. City commuter Jo Chapman has plenty of good reasons why we should all give it a go

The spokesgirls did it... can you?

The Spokesgirls were a group of women who participated in the Holden High Country Challenge. Read about their experiences here.

Verity Firth MP

Verity Firth is NSW Minister for Education and Training and Minister for Women. What's more, she’s a bike rider

Women's stories: carrying baby

Carrying children by bike - one Mum tells all