Cycling is a testosterone fueled pastime

[400bhp]

You will have to elaborate.

I see you changed your post

For example, some (quite a lot) of men will take up sports for daft reasons like wanting to impress (golf FFS) or some pseudo masculine nuance (man tries to beat other man at squash etc). It's really unlikely women will choose the same reasons to take up sports IMO.

 

[Glow worm]

Certainly not here. My ambition each time I go for a ride is to make sure it's slower than the last one! I got to work in 52 minutes one day last week beating my previous personal best of 49 minutes by quite a margin.

 

[potsy]

I think the Op's mixing up the 'your ride today' and 'silly strava racing' threads

 

[Linford]

I expect this is all just an excuse for Linf to post a photo of a woman riding a motorbike.

Already done that of a friend of mine, she is a quicker rider than I am (I have no issue in stating this), and she has pursued it into competitive road racing with some success (which I've not)...she is also very much in the minority.

 

[Rob3rt]

I see you changed your post

For example, some (quite a lot) of men will take up sports for daft reasons like wanting to impress (golf FFS) or some pseudo masculine nuance (man tries to beat other man at squash etc). It's really unlikely women will choose the same reasons to take up sports IMO.

I didn't change the post, I made the same point a second time, the second time I elaborated a bit. If I were to survey the male and female members of our club on why they took up and continue to take part in cycling (I am not going to do it, because I don't have the time to wrestle with getting people to respond), I would be pretty surprised if the answers were significantly different.

 

[400bhp]

I didn't change the post, I made the same point a second time, the second time I elaborated a bit. If I were to survey the male and female members of our club on why they took up and continue to take part in cycling, I would be pretty surprised if the answers were significantly different.

Fine, but that's not what you stated.

Let's leave it there, me and you aint the types to to a Mr Paul & Linford.

 

[winjim]

My wife runs. I cycle. She is concerned with improving her times. I am not. I would suggest you retract your implications regarding myself and my spouse.

 

[Rob3rt]

Side comment, in a club of 350 members, with women being a minority membership (but growing healthily) it is indeed 2 women who sit at the top of our road racing/crit race league in terms of points and it will be a women who takes the club road race trophy this year.

 

[400bhp]

We have a turb trainer in the house.

Which one is doing LT based training?

 

[Linford]

Don't confuse your idea of a misogynist with someone who cares little for flirting with members of the opposite sex on internet forums.
What happened to good old fashioned respect for someones abilities and achievements ?

 

[Hip Priest]

It took me 17 seconds to realise this thread was a load of nonsense.

Beat that!

 

[Linford]

[QUOTE 2747511, member: 45"]Are you suggesting women aren't competitive?

Have you ever met one?[/quote]

My daughter was/is incredibly competitive in show jumping/XC, and she has boxes of trophies for her efforts.

 

[400bhp]

Already done that of a friend of mine, she is a quicker rider than I am (I have no issue in stating this), and she has pursued it into competitive road racing with some success (which I've not)...she is also very much in the minority.

Now, one could read that post as you stating that very very few people (the minority) are quicker than you.

I'm sure that's not what you meant.

 

[Linford]

Now, one could read that post as you stating that very very few people (the minority) are quicker than you.

I'm sure that's not what you meant.

Plenty are quicker, but she is right out there...seriously quick to the point I'm happy to back off and hold my hand up. Riding sports bikes are much the same. It is also a male dominated pursuit. I would have said that there seem to be slightly more women interested in PTWs than riding roadies (from 11 years of involvement in a sportsbike forum).

 

[400bhp]

Plenty are quicker, but she is right out there...seriously quick to the point I'm happy to back off and hold my hand up. Riding sports bikes are much the same. It is also a male dominated pursuit. I would have said that there seem to be slightly more women interested in PTWs than riding roadies (from 11 years of involvement in a sportsbike forum).

See, that's wear bollox comes into it.

Most men will think they can and can't. Those women that think they can, do.