Annie aka annieridesiee

Like many women mountain bike riders, I started riding bikes because of a boy. What started in 2017 as me being a co-pilot on long drives to races where he raced and I studied - under gum trees in state forest, in a tent by a river or just in the back of the car - has turned into a life of bikes and bike-adjacent adventures.

I married that boy and have since found my own groove on the bike: after dabbling in racing downhill and enduro, running a local clubbie downhill series and riding anything and everything, now I just love the feeling of dirt under my tyres and the wind in my hair as I zoom down trails.

I started coaching in October 2024 with Dirt Maidens and now I get to share the joy and excitement that is riding bikes with beginner to intermediate women bike riders in and around beautiful Canberra.

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Ride bikes

be happy

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The handle ‘annieridesiee’ comes from my family nickname (and long-time instagram handle) Annie Rosiee - a diminuntive of my name, Annie Rose. I started an instagram with that handle back in 2012, and eventually found all I was sharing there was bikes. Wanting to create space for the part of my life that is entirely bikes, while also holding space for everything else, I created a new handle. Paying homage to my past while creating space for my future and all things bikes, annieridesiee was the springboard for this website and all my plans and dreams for the mountain bike media space!

First laps for the season at Thredbo and I got to call it continuing professional development 🌞 @dirtmaidens took on the hill with riders getting expert tutelage from some very excellent @thredbomtb coaches while some of us Dirt Maidens coaches got
Five months postpartum! Not trying to bounce back or set the world on fire, just riding my bike when I can. For joy, for solo time, for connection and community, for coaching, for time outside, for me. I still can’t finish a thought and I&rsq
Took me a week to recover from Sea Otter (not cos I did anything gnarly, I’m just living that postpartum life) but still not over the Juliana Women’s Ride. It was a morning spent with about 40 women sharing stories (yapping), riding bike
ICYMI: the first ever Sea Otter down under just happened and it was pretty cool, soz if you missed it! Jazzed to have guided the @julianabicycles women’s ride on Saturday with @dirtmaidens - got to ride with 30+ women including the lovely @ra

A bit more about me and my why…

As a teenager or university student, I would never have imagined I would be building a website to spruik myself as somebody who rides mountain bikes or who has something to say about riding mountain bikes. Though I had grown up riding bikes up and down the driveway of our farm and later to and from the public library and Five Star supermarket (as a very metropolitan tween in the streets of Kempsey, NSW), and would eventually graduate with a Bachelors of Journalism/Bachelor of International Studies in 2012, the world of adventure sport media never appealed to me.

Indeed, I went on to work in agricultural media and then as a personal trainer in Sydney’s bougie Eastern Suburbs.

Now, many years later, as a woman in a male-dominated sport, I see the scope and potential for building and promoting female-friendly spaces within the mountain bike scene. With my journalism background, enthusiasm for mountain biking and hyping up the gals and my gift for yapping, that is exactly what I aim to do.