InfraSisters

This is a women-organised and led ride, but we welcome anyone as an ally.
More info on our website.

A campaign poster for InfraSisters x Cycling UK. Showing an image of 3 silhouettes of women riding bikes. Light up your bike and join us! To call for better cycling infrastructure, safer for women at night. Friday 24th October 7.30pm Middle Meadow Walk Together with a QR code linking back to our website.

We're back! We've teamed up with @cyclinguk.bsky.social for a Glow Ride on Friday 24th October. Like us, they want to see more women cycling, and for councils to provide more safe infrastructure to enable that.
Light up your bike with lights and sparkle and join us at Middle Meadow Walk at 7.30pm.

Logo saying InfraSisters cycling for safe streets, with a series of images of various bicycle types

24th October 2025. Do you have any plans?
#OurStreetsOurNights
#MyRideOurRight

A rainbow Pride flag, including the colours representing trans people.

After last week's Supreme Court ruling we want to be clear that we welcome & support all women and girls. Trans & non-binary people are as important to us as biological women & are a valued part of our crew.
We remain welcome to allies from any sex, gender or background.
#transrightsarehumanrights

It looks as though the UN have chosen a different theme for their recognition of the day. Both are admirable and valid, but we're using the IWD theme.

Hi Chelle

Accelerate Action is the theme for IWD2025
www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme

infrasisters.org.uk/post/safe-spac…
See our website for more info.

The IWD 2025 campaign theme is 'Accelerate Action'. We ask planners to build infrastructure that's safe & comfortable for women & girls. Many groups have ridden, campaigned, and yet Edinburgh hasn't seen the change it needs as a city to thrive. How can we accelerate action?

If you're wondering how to decorate your bike to make your presence felt in the middle of the day, we suggest using your noodle. Specifically, your pool noodle. The legal distance when overtaking a cyclist is 1.5m...

Noodles are optionsl; we'd love to see you regardless.

A woman in a blue hi viz vest on a bike. The bike has two pool noodles pointing out from the right side bearing signs saying For A Life Thanks Please Leave Space. The legal minimum distance for a vehicle to give a cyclist is 1.5m, the length of the noodles.

This year for #IWD2025 we're doing something a little different. A lunchtime pop-up "safe space" ride around the city centre on Monday 10th March. We'll start outside the City of Edinburgh Council's offices at Waverley Court on East Market Street at 12:30. Bring your noodles!

Multicoloured poster with wording We Are Cycling UK Proud to be one of Cycling UK's 100 Women in Cycling 2024

We're incredibly proud to announce that our founder Kirsty Lewin has been recognised as one of @wearecyclinguk #100WomenInCycling
Kirsty has been a long term advocate for cycling, active travel and women's rights.

www.cyclinguk.org/biography/ki...

A group of brightly lit cyclists waiting at a red light in a city junction.

A group of cyclists decorated in fairy lights heading along a wide path lined with trees.

A brightly lit fairground with a big wheel and sky ride in a city centre.

Out with the @infrasisters.bsky.social last night, campaigning for better cycle infrastructure for women. Riding along Grassmarket, conscious that we first passed the place where a cyclist was choked by an angry motorist, then the narrow crowded pavements where a pedestrian was killed by a coach.

andycatlin.com - InfraSisters #NoExcuse - 29 November 2024 (all images © Andy Catlin www.andycatlin.com) • Find out more at https://www.infrasisters.org.uk

Photo album from last night's @infrasisters.bsky.social #NoExcuse bike ride around #Edinburgh is now live at andycatlin.myportfolio.com/infrasisters.... Big shout to the organisers and marshals for getting us through the city safely on a Friday night 👏👏👏

Riding in solidarity for my wife, as she is away for the weekend. I hate when she comes home and gives me gory details of near misses with buses, male arseholes giving her grief and the general shitness of it all in Edinburgh. I don’t want my boys, or me to lose an amazing, beautiful mother & wife.❤️

Andy's photos are always brilliant. Thank you so much for coming along and taking the photos.

Massive thanks to all the women and allies who came along tonight to call for safe infrastructure. More photos to follow but here's how we ended the evening.
#OurStreetsOurNights
#edinburgh
#Cycling

It was great having you along!

A coloured cycleway post with two posters. One says Here! Today! 7.30pm! The second says #NoExcuse.

Here! Today! 7.30pm!
#OurStreetsOurNights
##NoExcuse

Campaign poster for InfraSisters 39th November 7.30pm #NoExcuse Middle Meadow Walk

Dr Grace, we all would!
We campaign in Edinburgh specifically for that: infrastructure that's safe for women and girls, day or night. Our next protest ride is tonight.

A red haired woman speaking at a lectern into a microphone.

Our InfraSister Julie spoke at #SpokesMtg last night about how we were formed, how we campaign and how we can share and learn with other groups.
www.youtube.com/live/j3FXi9Y...
@spokeslothian.bsky.social
@jarlathflynn.bsky.social
@edcriticalmass.bsky.social
@edi.bike

Photo of Julia speaking to the Spokes public meeting, with four other speakers waiting to speak and two audience members in the foreground.

Julia from @infrasisters.bsky.social on the need for safe, well-lit cycle infrastructure for women & girls.

Next ride, next Friday (29th) 7.30pm at middle meadow work. If you support safe infrastructure for women & girls, you’re welcome to join.

A view from the audience of a panel of 5 people on a stage at a public meeting.

What a fantastic @spokeslothian.bsky.social public meeting this evening! Great presentations and discussion. Thanks to all speakers:
@derekhalden.bsky.social
@edi.bike
@infrasisters.bsky.social
@edcriticalmass.bsky.social
@jarlathflynn.bsky.social #Spokesmtg

Our next campaign ride: 29th November at 7.30pm, starting from Middle Meadow Walk Edinburgh.
#NoExcuse for unsafe infrastructure
#NoExcuse for forcing us to choose between unsafe roads and unsafe cycle routes.
#OurStreetsOurNights