Female Glaswegian Cyclists

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dhd.evans

Veteran
Location
Dundee
Incidentally I pass 2 or 3 female commuters daily in Dundee. Latest one this morning looked a little larger (oo er) and I thought i'd pedal right past. Turns out the largeness (spied from about 1/4 mile away) was in fact all muscle.

I was thoroughly burned as she averaged 20mph for 3 miles of my 10 mile commute. My little legs hurt. My pride hurts more!
 

DougieAB

Getting the messages
On my way home through the centre of Edinburgh I thought of this post as I passed two girls on road bikes followed a few seconds later by another two student types on town bikes.
Not long ago on my morning commute I saw a woman on a bike within striking distance. She then shot up the hill and left me for dead. Fortunately the next morning I got close enough to see she was riding an electric bike. Pride restored!
 

Jim_Noir

New Member
On the way home from work this morning I saw 6 females and one male on the road. Now this is around 7am and between the airport and the west end... so maybe more females do shift work.. or they are nurses heading off to the southern (or coming home from).
 

AnythingButVanilla

Über Member
Location
London
I don't remember seeing many cyclists in the ten years that I was in Glasgow and certainly very few in town. I would have cycled to work myself but was too feart to use the cycle track between Yoker and Clydebank at stupid o'clock at night in case I got mugged/chibbed/my bike stolen. The joys of shift work, living in a dodgy area and having to depend on the shoot public transport instead. I did work with a woman who regularly cycled in from Uddingston to Clydebank in time for her 11pm shift but was a triathlete who was made of sterner stuff and enjoyed doing the Iron Man thing for fun.
 

Mad Doug Biker

Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
Location
Craggy Island
I don't remember seeing many cyclists in the ten years that I was in Glasgow and certainly very few in town. I would have cycled to work myself but was too feart to use the cycle track between Yoker and Clydebank at stupid o'clock at night in case I got mugged/chibbed/my bike stolen.

I tend to cycle along Dumbarton Road when it is at night, although I did cycle along the Cycle track there one night at high speed as I couldn't be arsed going up onto the road. 'Twas fine, and that was a Saturday night too!

on the shoot public transport instead.

The buses are still bad - I got one the other week there that seemed to have nonexistent suspension (does ANY bus have it?), it was filthy, there were things hanging off the windows where adverts had obviously originally been, it was PACKED and there was a newspaper stuck in the door mechanism. On top of that, unlike the trains, the timetable seems to be a work of COMPLETE fiction and there are no screens telling you when the next one is due, so you could be stood there for 5 minutes or 50 minutes, and when you DO get on a bus, the journey takes about 3 times longer than anything else, (including walking)...... AND you can't even take your bike on! (In fact, the only good bit about my last bus journey was that there was a young woman with a really cute arse standing near me :biggrin::tongue:).


Thoroughly vile, wretched things buses
 

AnythingButVanilla

Über Member
Location
London
It was Dumbarton Road that I lived on :biggrin: First Bus are an absolute joke though and their timetables appear to be a work of fiction. I was regularly late for my 7am shift due to drivers being late or just not turning up and there was many a time where I walked the three miles home at midnight because the 62 just couldn't be bothered to stop. The fares seem to have went up every time I'm home and I cannot understand how they feel they can charge so much money for such a poor service. My oystercard may be expensive but at least I'm more or less guaranteed to be able to get home at all hours.
 

Jim_Noir

New Member
BTW, anyone else find the clyde tunnel like an ice rink these days? Glesga cooncil are a joke with the up keep of the tunnel.
 

format

Über Member
Location
Glasgow.
Town was packed full of cyclists yesterday with the hot weather. Annoyingly I had to walk my bike from Maryhill to the Gorbals to get it to the shop :/

Still, in my experience there are about 4 male cyclists to ever 1 female in Glasgow, at least in the areas that I cycle in.
 

gavintc

Guru
Location
Southsea
When I lived in Edinburgh and worked in Glasgow, I used to take my bike on the train from Edinburgh to Glasgow and then complete the commute by bike. There were 2-3 women that did the same and I'd see them regularly on the morning or evening train.
 

soulful dog

Veteran
Location
Glasgow
I only 'commute' twice a month via the city centre (and never during peak times) so I don't really count.... but of the other cyclists I spot, the majority are male. I'd go along with format's rough calculation, maybe only 1 in 4 or 5 are female. That might be different during normal commuting hours though.
 

Fuzzball

Well-Known Member
I commute about 3 times a week from royston road to glasgow airport, for shift work, so to airport for 7am/or leaving then from night shift, and then for 2pm leaving morning shift/going in for start of afternoon shift, and 10pm in/out of work.

Most of the commuters i see are men, and when i do see ladies it tends to be from squinty bridge into town and their bikes tend to be retro or basic hybrids. Can't recall last woman on road bike i have seen, i'm on the road bike at the mo as my commute bike was trashed in an rtc a fortnight ago.
 
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