This blog is arriving slightly late but we promise you’ll enjoy reading it. While ago we’ve successfully attended the Sunday Cycle Picnic in London, an event trying to encourage woman to get on bikes. We screened Belleville Rendesvouz and wonderful film programme of vintage cycle films curated by Ray Pascoe. As this event was all about the ladies and their two wheeled companions, Magnificent Revolution welcomed our youngest female volunteer. Her name is Taeko and she may just become our technical support.

We were happy to attend this event as woman and cycling have some history. In history of female and male inequality the bicycle became a tool of autonomy. With the help of bicycle,  woman could get them selves from A to B without the dependence on men. Bicycle meant freedom. With the bike came off the corsets and on came the bloomers.

And just to spice it up a bit at the end.. the first woman to go around the world on a bicycle was Annie Londoderry. She was paid by a water company to become a cycling billboard and to even take up same last name as the Londoderry Lithia Spring Water company. She took off around the world becoming a mobile advertisement. What an amazing accomplishment. Shame it was all in the name of advertising.