The Story Behind VeloVixen
The Story Behind VeloVixen
When our founders, Liz and Phil, set off on a bike ride in 2010, barely 6 months after they had met, little did they know where it would take them. In any sense.
They spent a year riding over 10,000km through the Americas, an adventure that would change their lives forever.
At the end, in Argentina, they got engaged. In 2012, they launched VeloVixen - inspired equally by a reaffirmed love of cycling and by the problems Liz encountered finding great clothing for the trip. Today, their two cycling-mad young daughters are living testament of the power of cycling!
This picture shows them mid-adventure, on the Salar de Uyuni, 4000m up in the Bolivian Andes. As it turned out the VeloVixen journey has only just begun...
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