World Bike Girl - Coventry Twisted Barrel Brewery and Tap House

Presented by: Random Adventure

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0	COVENTRY: Twisted Barrel Brewery and Tap House
P	Monday 20th August, 2018
N	6:30pm

Event information

Online tickets down, still door entry available.

Coventry Twisted Barrel Brewery and Tap House proudly presents Ishbel Holmes AKA World Bike Girl

Ishbel is cycling a UK wide speaking tour with her dog Maria, whom she rescued whilst cycling across Brazil last year. Before setting off on an epic bike ride around the world, Ishbel, who is British, Iranian with a Scottish accent, was racing internationally for Iran as a velodrome sprinter and spent years road and track racing around the UK. Ishbel has pedalled across 20 countries solo, rescues street dogs (and the odd cat!) on her travels, is a principal campaigner for every woman’s right to cycle and has inspired many to get outdoors and ride their bikes.

Ishbel will be talking about her adventures of cycling the world solo, including pedalling 5000 metres high when crossing the Andes, cycling through the Pantanal Jungle, biking Che Guevara’s final footsteps, crossing a country with no money, animal rescue by bike and the first street dog she rescued whilst cycling across Turkey, her one woman protest in Bolivia that went viral and how she faces 20 years in prison if she returns to Iran for defending every women’s right to cycle in Iran, a country where women are arrested and beaten for riding their bikes.

Most of all Ishbel hopes to inspire people to take on all the little or big things they've been too scared to do in life.

Ishbel will also be launching her book; Me, My Bike and a Street Dog Called Lucy, which is being made into a film.