If you see a woman riding a roadie on a sunday morning, it is the exception rather than the rule. I've seen a few out on the roads...some take it very seriously, but they are very much in the minority.
Just saying
II don't want to take it seriously, I don't want a "roadie", I rarely ride on a Sunday morning (Papa takes eldest small person on his bike and youngest small person in her trailer attached to his electric bike to the river on a Sunday morning - I sit with Nana and drink tea and talk about stuff). I chose Bertha because she is pretty and had all the stuff I wanted on her, hub thingies and dynamo lights and a integral lock and skirt guards etc.
I ride from A to B to either get or do stuff sometimes it is shopping stuff, sometimes it is wear the little buggers out stuff, crabbing, collecting shells, going for an ice-cream, to the cinema etc, I did my highest mileage ever in one go on Friday and I posted about it. I did not post how many miles as that is irrelevant to me, apart from it was further away from the shire I had ever been type ride if I took one more rotation of the wheels, it quashed my personal fears of being so far from home with two small people and no back up if something went wrong.
Anyhoo enough about that, I have no issue in posting my piddley ride "today" and the details, I do not find that thread a wee-ing contest, nor testosterone fueled, perhaps that is because it goes over my head the I did 100 miles in eleven seconds, and I am more distracted by ooh cake or aah a pretty cow, not because I am female just because I am not a competitive person. I do not strive to be faster, go longer just "because", if there is a need for me to get to a place then I will cycle, I quite like hills, downhill I hasten to add, freewheeling down a hill and shouting woo hoo makes me feel totally care free.
Strangely the only person that has got their testosterone on and made snide comments about "my ride today" has been female.
No Robert, self control now, behave. Have a cuppa and calm down
