Join Sara Wainer and Jay Melena of Specialized for a fireside chat about representation in the bike industry. Hear their experiences, share your own, and help create a vision for what a more inclusive bike industry could look like.
Schedule Day: DAY 2
August 16, 2018
MOBILITY JUSTICE AND SPIRIT JOURNEYS
Across the nation, many of us work ardently as Mobility Justice advocates. We do so because of how much we love our most thriving community members who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, disabled, LGBTQIA+, undocumented, houseless, youth, elders, and etc. We do so because it is how many of us hold ourselves with dignity by speaking the truth. Our love is often misconstrued as rage when it really is our gentle, peace-loving and compassionate spirits moving us. Let’s converge minds, spirits, and hearts to inspire each other for uplifting transformation.
EVENING CIRCLE
Circle up, friends. We will end each day with a quick check in to go over announcements, updates and whatever else needs tending to.
FREE TIME
(ride/hike/meditate/journal)
Go for a ride, take a hike, or just take a nap. Embrace the joy of missing out and take some time to do whatever it is that recharges you.
MIND, BODY, BIKE
Healing Trauma and Building Resiliency
This session is about self-awareness, support, and celebrating biking. Nicole will share her experience of ongoing healing and facilitate conversations on the body’s response to trauma/stress and how to harness your strengths to challenge this response. We will also talk about how biking can support healing and explore ways to show up for yourself, and others, while biking. CW: Session will include discussion of the impacts of trauma on the nervous system. Attendees are encouraged to take care and participate however they can.
SALT, FAT, ACID, HEAT… AND DIRT
Feeding your body (and heart) while bikepacking
Food is the ultimate connector and transcends all identities, cultures, and backgrounds. In addition to discussing backcountry food basics, this session will address people’s physical, emotional and ancestral connection to food. Participants will spend time identifying the foods and flavors that make them feel whole and learn how they can be used to enhance your trip. Diaspora, colonization, eating disorders, body dysphoria, etc. can have a large impact on how people relate and feel about food. This session will be an inclusive environment for people to connect to food on whatever level they feel comfortable.
BICYCLE MECHANICS FOR ADVENTURING
Knowing how to troubleshoot on the trail can give you a boost of confidence when adventuring into the backcountry. In this session, we will work on how best to prepare for the unexpected by giving an overview of basic bicycle repairs as well as plunging into potential trailside emergencies — going in depth into tire repair, flat fixes, and toolkit selection.
FREE TIME
(ride/hike/meditate/journal)
Go for a ride, take a hike, or just take a nap. Embrace the joy of missing out and take some time to do whatever it is that recharges you.
WRITING OURSELVES INTO EXISTANCE
WTF Writers Craft Our Stories
During this session, we will discuss how writing, for both personal pleasure and money, can allow us to reshape the stories we tell about ourselves. We will start with conversation about the importance of storytelling, the colonial roots behind travel and adventure writing, and the lack of WTF, POC, and queer, representation in outdoors & bicycling media. We will then split into smaller groups – Kai will lead workshop exercises related to visual art and journaling and Mary Ann will work with nonfiction writers and travel writers looking to write for public platforms. We’ll conclude with sharing resources, including contacts (with editors/publications) and personal contact info, for folks who want to stay in touch and exchange work.
BIKE FASHION
Go bikepacking, but make it fashion. Currently, clothing is one of the most discarded items on the planet. Fast fashions don’t consider comfort, fit, and ethical manufacturing of their apparel and certainly not thinking about the needs of bike adventurers. Break the cycle of fast fashions with a lesson on what to look for mindful alternatives.