We could not have been happier with how Babes in Bikeland turned out this year! A big thanks to everyone involved who helped make this the best Babes yet. We could not have made it happen without the tremendous support of our volunteers and incredibly generous sponsors.

Congratulations to Jana for coming in first place this year! She biked away with a custom bike from Peacock Groove (valued at over $2k!!) and a custom messenger bag from Minneapolis' own Trash Bags! Not an easy feat, since 162 girls registered to race this year!

Head on over to the results page to see how you did.

Photo by Bjorn Christensen

So what next?

You've met a bunch of other amazing women who bike. You've dabbled in your competitive side. Check out these female-friendly bike events that are going in Minneapolis.

Grease Rag Ride

Grease Rag Ride is a blog, and short ride and open shop event for
women to learn about and work on bicycles in a fun and supportive
environment. The event, and the blog are free and open to women of
all experience levels. For our calendar of events or for more
information, email us at greaseragmpls@gmail.com or join the lively
discussion happening at http://greaseragmpls.wordpress.com/. Grease
Rag Ride is graciously sponsored by Sunrise Cyclery, 901 W. Lake St.,
Minneapolis.

Cirque du SoGay Queer Alleycat

Queer Bike Gang's Alleycat race will feature beginner and advanced routes. We want all you bike homos/lezzies/transzies/et.al. to come out and ride for coming out weekend. We got some hott prizes already and are expecting more. We're gonna figure out some kind of registration system (hopefully) and are working on lining up space for the afterparty, which will hopefully keep the registration fee $5 or less. It's gonna be a hott mess. check myspace.com/queerbikegang and/or stalk queer bike gang on facebook for more as this story develops.