BIKE-CURIOUS is a new program for Western Australian
girls and women*
Lots of girls and women in WA aren’t riding bikes for fun, transport or exercise
Image: Ste Murray
They’re missing out on the freedom and independence enjoyed by girls elsewhere, as well as many other brilliant things about getting around on wheels.
Working towards fair access to bike riding and good times on the streets for everyone,
BIKE-CURIOUS offers fun, creative experiences that invite girls and women to share their thoughts about riding, explore their experiences, and support each other to change things for themselves, their friends, and people like them.
*BIKE-CURIOUS aims to be inclusive of trans and intersex women and girls, as well as non-binary and gender fluid people who are comfortable in spaces which centre the experiences of young women.
BIKE-CURIOUS is designed to:
Increase participants’ understanding of perceptions and barriers to riding bikes.
Develop creative processes to reveal their experiences of mobility and public space.
Co-design strategies to enable behaviour change among participants and their peers.
Generate social support and creative action to help them ride bikes for everyday transport.
Improve their skills, knowledge and confidence so they’ll ride more often.
Inform effective future initiatives to create places and networks that work for girls and women.
We’d love to hear from girls and women who want to be part of the change!
We’d love to hear from schools, community and government organisations, and anyone else who wants to enable girls and women to have real mobility choices and get their voices heard.
We offer a customisable range of fun and engaging presentations, activities and workshop experiences.
BIKE-CURIOUS was initially designed based on a workshop format and campaign called #andsheccyles which successfully engaged and empowered girls and young women in Ireland and Scotland.
Pilot programs run in 2023 and 2024 in partnership with WestCycle and funded by the Western Australian State Government enabled us to design and test a range of creative activities to arrive at methods that work with Australian women and girls.
#andshecycles was created by Green-Schools Ireland, with support from the Government of Ireland’s Department of Transport. To find out more visit greenschoolsireland.org . This inspired a campaign of the same name to encourage more teenage girls to cycle for everyday journeys by Sustrans Scotland funded by the Scottish Government sustrans.org.uk .
Image: Andy Caitlin