Friday Night Activities at Little Red!

Our Friday Night Kick Off for Little Red

will have plenty of action and fun!

 

COSTUME CONTEST - It's always a treat to see the great costumes our ladies come up with and this year, with our BOLLYWOOD THEME, the costume contest is sure to be especially colorful and exciting!

DINNER -  A delicious Indian feast.

MUSIC, DECORATIONS & A FESTIVE ATMOSPHERE - Nobody does it better than Little Red and we promise not to disappoint. Come and groove to the sights, sounds, colors and ambience of Bollywood!

LITTLE RED BOUTIQUE - Our boutique sells out every year. Once you see our entire line of Little Red 2013 clothing, how can you possibly resist?

VENDOR EXPO - come visit our many exciting vendors. You'll want to be sure to bring some cash or a credit card because we guarantee that you will find one, two or ten things that you absolutely must have!!

CAMPING - If you don't have hotel reservations are you planning on camping? See below for camping details at the Lewiston Fairgrounds. You can camp for FREE! 

 

Buy Your Meal Tickets! 

 

• Dinner will be catered by TANDOORI OVEN, a local favorite for great Indian food, from Logan, Utah.
• From 5:30PM-8PM, they'll be serving up:

Mixed Green Salad with Yogurt Dressing

Chicken Tikka Masala

Vegetarian Coconut Kurma

Naan

Chocolate Brownies

For just $12.00 per person

Buy Your Meal tickets here! Click Now! Don't wait til its too late!
 

Costume Contest!

  

It's time to start working on your costume for Little Red!

 

The Costume Contest at Little Red is a beloved tradition that takes place Friday night.

  

Have your picture taken, dance a bit, strut your stuff and let the judges check out your costume. Coordinate with this year's theme, or plan your own crazy ensemble. Whether you're part of a team or on your own … great prizes will be awarded!

So get working on your costume NOW!
 

Camping! 
 

FREE, On Site

Overnight Accommodations

Lewiston Fair and Rodeo Grounds

100 East Center Street and 200 East Center Street 
 

v  Tent Campsites and RV Parking 

v  Available all day and night Friday and Saturday, May 31 – June 1 

v  Park next to your tent campsite – weather permitting 

v  RV Parking anywhere parking is allowed on the fairgrounds 

v  Facilities include portable restrooms and wash sinks 

v  Plenty of tent campsites and RV parking available 

v  No reservations required – First Come, First Served

 

Walking distance from these fun-filled weekend activities:

• Friday Dinner 5:30-7:30 PM ($12 advanced ticket purchase required)
• Friday night Women’s Expo from 5:30-8:30 PM
• Friday night Costume Contest
• Saturday Continental Breakfast starting at 7:00 AM/Lunch/Ice Cream
• Massages after the ride
• Friday night and Saturday afternoon Bollywood-style band entertainment
• Start Line and Finish Line activities 

Please note: No RV hookups or indoor showers available. No campfires allowed. Questions or concerns can be submitted to lrrh@bccutah.org or at the event at the LRRH Information Booth


You can also find information on other campgrounds and RV Parks at the links below:

Go Camping in Logan, UT area

 

RV Dump Stations in the area
 

Camping Near Lewiston, UT

Logan Canyon Campgrounds

A Short History of Women & Cycling - Annie Londonderry

On a Monday in late June 1894, Annie Cohen Kopchovsky (aka Annie Londonderry) climbed onto a Columbia bicycle in Boston, Mass and rode into history. Aside from two quick lessons in the previous days she had never ridden a bicycle, yet Annie was the first woman to bicycle around the world.

Her ride was described by the New York World on October 20, 1895, as “the most extraordinary journey ever undertaken by a woman.” Londonderry claimed that it was set in motion by a novel wager by two club members in Boston - a claim made by other travelers during the "round the world" fad. Londonderry’s challenge was to circle the globe by bicycle in 15 months and to earn $5,000.

The Londonderry Lithia Spring Water Company paid her $100 to carry its placard on her bike and also contracted with her to adopt its name. Travelling with a change of clothes and a pearl-handled revolver, Londonderry earned her way by turning her bicycle and body into a billboard, carrying advertising banners and ribbons through cities around the world. She was a remarkable sight to Victorian eyes!

The venture was a test of a woman’s ability to fend for herself. Despite having seldom ridden a bicycle, she pedalled out of Boston, leaving her husband and young children behind.


Read about the bike Annie rode

Having travelled onto New York and then to Chicago, she exchanged her skirts for bloomers, and her woman's 42-pound Columbia bicycle for a 21-pound men's Sterling. Possibly due to winter, she switched her route from west to east and headed to Europe via New York City. She arrived in Le Havre, France on December 3, 1894. Despite bureaucratic difficulties, Londonderry said her trip through France was the highlight of her experience. She made Paris to Marseilles in two weeks to public acclaim. She steamed across the Mediterranean to Egypt, making short tours throughout Egypt, Jerusalem and modern-day Yemen, before sailing to Colombo and Singapore.

Returning to the United States at San Francisco on March 23, 1895 she cycled to Los Angeles, then El Paso, and north to Denver where she arrived on August 12, 1895. Along the way, she regaled audiences with fanciful tales of her journey, and seemed to thrive in the lime-light. She arrived in Boston on September 24, 15 months after she had left. Despite criticism that she traveled more "with" a bicycle than on one, she proved a formidable cyclist at impromptu local races en route across America.

After the trip, Annie Kopchovsky moved her family to New York, where under the by-line “The New Woman,” she wrote sensational features for several months for the New York World. Her first story was an account of her cycling adventure. “I am a journalist and ’a New Woman,’” she wrote, ”if that term means that I believe I can do anything that any man can do.”

In 2007, Annie's great nephew Peter Zheutlin, published her story in Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride. Revisit her amazing adventures as she cycled and traveled her way around the globe. Her story was also featured in Bicycling Magazine. You can read more about Annie's fascinating adventures and take inspiration from her remarkable courage, stamina and bravery over 100 years ago.

A Short History of Women & Cycling - The Early Years

The invention of the bicycle has had an enormous effect on society. A short hop around Wikipedia revealed the following, fascinating information.

Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century in Europe. As they became safer and cheaper, more women had access to the personal freedom they embodied, and so the bicycle came to symbolize the New Woman of the late 19th century, especially in Britain and the United States. The New Woman was a feminist ideal that emerged in the late 19th century and had a profound influence on feminism well into the twentieth. The term "New Woman" was popularized by American writer Henry James, to describe the growth in the number of feminist, educated, independent career women in Europe and the United States.

The bicycle craze in the 1890s also led to a movement for so-called Rational Dress, which helped liberate women from corsets and ankle-length skirts and other restrictive garments, substituting the then-shocking bloomers. The Rational Dress Society was an organization founded in 1881 in London. It described its purpose as follows:

The Rational Dress Society protests against the introduction of any fashion in dress that either deforms the figure, impedes the movements of the body, or in any way tends to injure the health. It protests against the wearing of tightly-fitting corsets; of high-heeled shoes; of heavily-weighted skirts, as rendering healthy exercise almost impossible; and of all tie down cloaks or other garments impeding on the movements of the arms. It requires all to be dressed healthily, comfortably, and beautifully, to seek what conduces to birth, comfort and beauty in our dress as a duty to ourselves and each other.”

The Lady Cyclists' Association, established in 1892, was the United Kingdom's - and probably the world's - first cycling organization expressly for women, set up to provide rides, tours and social gatherings for women cyclists. The organization published a handbook, containing details of reasonably priced places to stay while cycle touring, and a monthly journal, the Lady Cyclists' Association News.

The bicycle was recognized by 19th-century feminists and suffragists as a "freedom machine" for women. American Susan B. Anthony said in a New York World interview on February 2, 1896: "I think it has done more to emancipate woman than any one thing in the world.  I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood."


"Let go — but stand by"; Frances Willard  
learning to ride a bicycle.

In 1895 Frances Willard, the tightly laced president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, wrote A Wheel Within a Wheel: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle, with Some Reflections by the Way, a 75 page illustrated memoir praising "Gladys", her bicycle, for its "gladdening effect" on her health and political optimism.  Willard used a cycling metaphor to urge other suffragists to action.
 
 

In Western Society, the bicycle gave women unprecedented mobility, contributing to their emancipation in Western nations. Who knew the debt we owe to the humble but brilliant bicycle?

Wikipedia Sources:
History of the Bicycle
New Woman
Rational Dress and Victorian Dress Reform

GET TRAINING!!!

Little Red is coming up fast. Spring is just around the corner, the days are getting warmer, the sun is shining and it's time to get riding! We've been asked time and time again

"How do I train for Little Red?"

We've got a few ideas to get you out there on the road and ready for the big day. A few suggestions from some seasoned riders. Pick one, pick two or pick them all.

Just get riding!

Follow a training plan
There are plenty of training plans out there that will help you build up miles if you like a structured approach. These plans focus on riding 100 miles, but you can modify them to fit your personal goals:

Training For A Century Ride
Ride A Century in 8 weeks
The 100 Mile Goal



Grab Your Posse
Get your friends, neighbors and family together and get your riding group going! Its always more fun to ride with friends and it helps the miles to pass quickly. The more fun you have, the faster those miles seem to go.

 

Take It To The Next Level and

Cycle with the Bonneville Cycling Club

 

Make new friends, learn new routes! The BCC has rides throughout the year, for every level of cyclist. You do not have to be a member to ride with the BCC and we have a large variety of rides, routes, distances, challlenges and members.

 

 

Check out our Ride Calendar 

 

 ... then come and check us out! You'll find a fun & welcoming group of people - all ages - who simply love to bike for the pure joy of riding. The BCC has dozens of rides scheduled every month with a variety of terrains, routes and miles to choose from. Ride with us and you'll be ready for Little Red in no time.