Abundance of Female Cyclists

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However the fact that you really need to wear different clothes than your normal stuff is a bit irritating,

I think that depends on what your normal stuff is. I commute in the same jeans I wear daily, and if I'm going out on a longer ride, then cycling gear is my normal stuff, if you see what I mean.

It's perfectly possible, if you want to, with the right bike and the right kind of cycling, to wear whatever you like. Padded shorts or underwear is probably the only essential item - and even then, I don't wear padding for my local about town trips. None of my female friends who cycle for utillity wear anything but normal clothes.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Yesterday for the first time ever I think there was a much higher proportion of female cyclists on my commute in to work in the morning. I would say 80 to 90 % female, I was amazed.
Quite a few students but otherwise a real mix of old and young, slim and not.

I thought it was fantastic, I recon the key to getting more people on bikes is if more women took to it so its not seen as something middle aged white males do.

Typical, my eldest has bad stomach pains and doesn't eat all day Monday so I have to look after her and take her to the Docs, instead of joining Tharg on our commute route.... just my luck to miss all the lovely totty young females on their bikes.

 

[Tharg2007]

it was hardly like the girls in lycra thread, quite the opposite in fact

 

[summerdays]

I would say definitely more men than women on my routes but I don't mind that

However I did see one today that I did think the male members of CC might appreciate - long knee high boots, little flappy skirt and nice top, on a purple sit up and beg bike. She turned off the hill before I could see if she could make it to the top in a lazy style.

 

[CatVert]

never mind. she probably needed go off and barf from all that attention.

 

[Wigsie]

I obviously live in the wrong place

You and me both Red!

I would say definitely more men than women on my routes but I don't mind that

However I did see one today that I did think the male members of CC might appreciate - long knee high boots, little flappy skirt and nice top, on a purple sit up and beg bike. She turned off the hill before I could see if she could make it to the top in a lazy style.

To re-itterate what Magnatom said, that is useless without some sort of up skirt spy shot evidence.

 

[summerdays]

I was going to take a photo once I got to the top of the hill as I liked the stylish way she was dressed - that's how I would like appear on a bike.

(I actually figured that for once I could beat someone up that hill!!)

 

[CatVert]

nothing like a bit of stalking... you could have carried her coat and hand bag as she struggled up the hill i suppose, she may not have turned off and everyone's a winner.

 

[redjedi]

I would say definitely more men than women on my routes but I don't mind that

However I did see one today that I did think the male members of CC might appreciate - long knee high boots, little flappy skirt and nice top, on a purple sit up and beg bike. She turned off the hill before I could see if she could make it to the top in a lazy style.

After that teaser, the least you could do is wait at the same junction until you see her again, and take a few piccies

All for research purposes you understand.

 

[Tharg2007]

After that teaser, the least you could do is wait at the same junction until you see her again, and take a few piccies

All for research purposes you understand.

yes, then follow her taking more pictures, follow her to work then take pictures of that too then wait until she finishes and take more pics before following her home

 

[CatVert]

lucky girl, she should charge. she might end up as someones profile if she works at it.

 

[gemsno4]

I was going to take a photo once I got to the top of the hill as I liked the stylish way she was dressed - that's how I would like appear on a bike.

(I actually figured that for once I could beat someone up that hill!!)

I wouldn't necessarily be sure you could beat her! I ride a pashley and if i am feeling lazy wear my work clothes (skirt & heels). I can hear people puffing away behind me trying to overtake and always want to point out I am doing about 15-17 mph and am 25 years younger than most of them so don't feel too bad. I think that would make it worse though

Note - I am still really slow and get overtaken all of the time so I have to take pleasure on the rare occassions I can manage it.

 

[summerdays]

After that teaser, the least you could do is wait at the same junction until you see her again, and take a few piccies

All for research purposes you understand.

I had to get to school to pick up my youngest but I'll be going through that junction for the next 3 weeks yet I think.

I wouldn't necessarily be sure you could beat her! I ride a pashley and if i am feeling lazy wear my work clothes (skirt & heels). I can hear people puffing away behind me trying to overtake and always want to point out I am doing about 15-17 mph and am 25 years younger than most of them so don't feel too bad. I think that would make it worse though

Note - I am still really slow and get overtaken all of the time so I have to take pleasure on the rare occassions I can manage it.

It wasn't the bike so much as the way she rode it ... I usually find if I wear a skirt it rides up all the time .. I haven't mastered that yet... so stick to trousers and shorts mostly if I'm going somewhere on the bike.

 

[gemsno4]

It wasn't the bike so much as the way she rode it ... I usually find if I wear a skirt it rides up all the time .. I haven't mastered that yet... so stick to trousers and shorts mostly if I'm going somewhere on the bike.

I can help with that. It depends on the skirt, the tighter the more it rides up I find. A-line are better but you need to keep an eye out for the wind catching it then. The risks of trying to cycle whilst looking cool and not causing crashes by giving everyone an eyeful!

 

[purplepolly]

This has made me think and I can safely say that apart from a colleague leaving the car park and the odd granny out shopping in the evenings I've never seen another woman on a bike when I've been commuting.