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It was organised every year in September on World Car-Free Cities Day from 2013 to 2023, and its impact still continues today.
October 14, 2024
SKBT is more than just a cycling event; it is a demonstration of women’s presence in public space, their empowerment, solidarity and determination.
This awareness event, whose slogan was “Perfume smell against exhaust smell”, was recognized as an international women’s movement by the EU Transport Commission.
February 14, 2022 - Hurriyet
Sema Gür, who contributed greatly to the Fancy Women’s Bike Tour, stated that she started pedaling at the age of 38. “Our aim was to get women out on the streets with their bikes, and this had to start from the grassroots,” she said.
November 24, 2021
The Berlin Senatorship for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection awarded the Berlin initiative of the ‘Fancy Women Bike Tour’, which started in Izmir and spread all over the world. The Berlin Fancy Women Bike Tour initiative was chosen as the ‘Environmental Transport Movement’ of the year together with two other projects.
September 19, 2022 - the magger
Big changes start with small actions. Now, you will read an article about how a small action, a small question that contains the essence of this sentence, can add great color to the world.
September 9, 2020 - Cyclist
The Fancy Women Bike Ride, organized by women, will take place simultaneously in 25 countries and approximately 200 cities on Sunday, September 18, for the tenth year.
Thousands of women attend events from Izmir to Miami.
March 23, 2022 - news
Turkish women Sema Gür and Pınar Pinzuti, who started the organization in Izmir in 2013 and took it to 200 cities in 30 countries in the intervening years, were deemed worthy of the United Nations (UN) 2022 World Bicycle Day Special Award with their success story.
September 19, 2020 - Hurriyet
The Fancy Women Bike Tour, which started in Izmir and spread throughout the world in waves, has volunteers in 150 cities in Türkiye and the world today, and was also the subject of an academic thesis in Canada. Read the rest of the interview with Sema Gür.
September 22, 2019 - guardian
Photos of the Fancy Women’s Bike Ride events in England, organised on World Car-Free Day, are on the Guardian.
May 5, 2019
The Fancy Women Bike Ride was named the most successful grassroots movement of 2019 by the Copenhagenize Index.
September 17, 2018 - CORRIERE
Pınar Pinzuti told the Corriere newspaper in Italy about the Fancy Women Bike Ride, which has spread around the world as the Fancy Women Bike Ride.
September 28, 2016 - daily news
Fancy Women Bike Ride and Fancy Women Bike Ride inspire women by advocating for cycling.
September 24, 2017 - the time
In Germany, Die Zeit newspaper covered the Fancy Women Bike Tour and interviewed Andrea Reidl, Pınar Pinzuti and Sema Gür.