We are stoked to announce our latest collaboration with Corvid Cycles and Dispatch. ⚡️RAR “Drink Plenty of Water” Headset Cap⚡️ Add this to your trusty bike as a healthy reminder that self-care is the first step to shredding the patriarchy and to keep supporting gender inclusivity and racial equity in the cycling and outdoors scene. … Continue reading “Drink Plenty of Water” Headset Cap
Category: RAR News
SJ Brooks Scholarship GoFundMe Launches
We’re asking the cycling and outdoors community to help raise $23k to provide up to twenty SJ Brooks Scholarships for 2021! THE WHY Black, Indigenous, people of color, queer, trans, and women riders have a deep connection to the earth. However, due to systemic racism and other injustices, many are not accessing the much-needed medicine… Continue reading SJ Brooks Scholarship GoFundMe Launches
RAR Jobs Board Launches!
The RAR Jobs Board is a job listing to increase hiring for BIPOC and FTWN-B folks in the cycling and outdoors industries. With companies in the cycling and outdoors industries committing to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives like the Cycling Industry Pledge, RAR found that there was still a lack of employee diversity. The RAR… Continue reading RAR Jobs Board Launches!
Industry Support for SJ Brooks Scholarship
In our fourth year, Radical Adventure Riders are asking the cycling industry to help expand and increase financial funding and gear donations for the 2021 SJ Brooks Scholarship. Supporting the scholarship will expand your company’s footprint on increasing racial equity and gender inclusivity in the cycling community. See last year’s recipients and supporters to learn… Continue reading Industry Support for SJ Brooks Scholarship
RAR Chapter Selections
Get stoked! Eleven RAR Chapters will advocate, support, and uplift BIPOC and FTWN-B cyclists in their local communities! The RAR Chapters program received over twenty applications from BIPOC and FTWN-B organizers from across the country. We sought to select groups in different regions and had a solid core group to build out their community efforts. … Continue reading RAR Chapter Selections
RAR Artist Fund Raffle
Get a RAR raffle sticker to raise money for a RAR Artist Fund and for a chance to win prize packages from our friends Ron’s Bikes, Casa Verde, and Crust Bikes! 🎨 Why a RAR Artist Fund: Your sticker purchase will help us create an artist fund for future collaborations with BIPOC FTWN-B creatives on… Continue reading RAR Artist Fund Raffle
RAR Chapters Launches
We are excited to expand our programming and support RAR Chapters throughout the U.S.! Six Chapters will receive funding, training, and support to carry out RAR’s mission. Apply by May 10th! RAR seeks to expand and sustain its programming by enhancing, building, and supporting Chapters that will locally carry out its mission. RAR will work… Continue reading RAR Chapters Launches
RAR Sticker Raffle
Get a limited edition RAR raffle sticker for a chance to win the original illustration of the History of WTFN-B Riders in Cycling by Tessa Hulls! These sticker sales will help with our fundraising efforts for RAR 2021 programs like our new Chapters Program launching in late spring. 🛒 How to participate: Purchase a RAR… Continue reading RAR Sticker Raffle
New Year New Name
This past summer, we committed to change the name of our organization by the end of 2020. We acknowledge that both “WTF” and “Bikexplorers” are harmful, with ‘explorer’ using traumatic colonial language and ‘WTF’ centralizing cisgender women while being a recognizable acronym for ‘what the f*ck.” Asking for Name Suggestions On December 1st, our leadership team and… Continue reading New Year New Name
RAR Leadership 2021
We are thrilled to introduce three new organizers to the crew as we head into 2021. Please join us in welcoming Christina Grande , Renee Hutchens and Zahra Alabanza! We’re excited for their expertise and guidance as they join co-founders Mary Lytle and Molly Molly Sugar to shape the future of Radical Adventure Riders. Read more about each team member… Continue reading RAR Leadership 2021