What’s stopping women cycling?

[MontyVeda]

Can we remove all the caveman nonsense and move it elsewhere? Another women related thread ruined by off-topic male tubthumping....

it's all on topic when some men are claiming that women are too womanly to want to do anything strenuous such as cycling.

 

[vickster]

it's all just boll0cks when some men are claiming that women are too womanly to want to do anything strenuous such as cycling.

FTFY

 

[jay clock]

Interesting report on the Beeb. About 50% fewer women than men cycle twice a week or more, according to transport charity Sustrans, and when it comes to cycling on the roads, the number drops again.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-41737483

Can I just say that I am a friend of Maryam Amatullah mentioned in the article (we did this together at the Olympic opening ceremony in 2012
View: https://youtu.be/4As0e4de-rI?t=11573
) and you could not meet a more lovely and inspirational woman committed to promoting cycling

 

[MontyVeda]

FTFY

true... but it was boll0cks that needed addressing, although i wish i'd never bothered.

There's loads of activities that seem to attract so many more men than women, and since cycling (especially utility) is such a niche activity, shouldn't we be asking What's stopping people from cycling?

 

[vickster]

Just to ask has anyone on here ever seen a woman fixing her bike on the pavement like mending a puncture etc. I can honestly say that I have never seen one ever.

Why? Have you never done it?

 

[BoldonLad]

Just to ask has anyone on here ever seen a woman fixing her bike on the pavement like mending a puncture etc. I can honestly say that I have never seen one ever.

Yes, I have, on two different occasions. I also, once, loaned some spanners to a pair of cyclists (both women) staying on a campsite in France.

 

[Alan O]

Just to ask has anyone on here ever seen a woman fixing her bike on the pavement like mending a puncture etc. I can honestly say that I have never seen one ever.

Plenty of times - mostly my regular cycling friend from years ago, but I've seen other women doing it too.

 

[derrick]

Just to ask has anyone on here ever seen a woman fixing her bike on the pavement like mending a puncture etc. I can honestly say that I have never seen one ever.

All the women on our rides fix there own, will only help if they ask for help.

 

[ADarkDraconis]

Just to ask has anyone on here ever seen a woman fixing her bike on the pavement like mending a puncture etc. I can honestly say that I have never seen one ever.

I do. I have always been self reliant, have a pump and a spare tube/patch. What next, you have never seen a woman change a tire on a car before either?

 

[derrick]

I do. I have always been self reliant, have a pump and a spare tube/patch. What next, you have never seen a woman change a tire on a car before either? [/QUOTE

Change a car tyre? dont you have to have a special machine to get it off the rim? Do you mean change a wheel?
No I've never seen a woman change a car wheel outside. I have seen them on their mobiles when the car has broken down.
Theres absolutely no chance any of the women I know would change a car wheel, not a hope in hell.

Most guy's i know would call the AA,

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Change a car tyre? dont you have to have a special machine to get it off the rim? Do you mean change a wheel?
No I've never seen a woman change a car wheel outside. I have seen them on their mobiles when the car has broken down.
Theres absolutely no chance any of the women I know would change a car wheel, not a hope in hell.

If I offered to change the wheel on my sisters car she would probably lamp me with the wheel brace.

 

[Inertia]

Most guy's i know would call the AA,

Same here. The ones that will, don't do it because they have an innate tyre changing gene though. They do it because they have been told, that's what they are meant to do.

 

[derrick]

I thought a lot of new cars didn't have a spare wheel, so it would be a pointless exercise trying to change something that isn't there, I imagine this isn't a very constructive post.

Yes when do you ever see an old car on the road these days.

 

[MontyVeda]

I have to be careful as I've been deemed as non constructive, and not making sense.
but
there seems to be a belief that women just don't want to do sport or strenuous activity but I feel some men as missing the obvious, its not that women don't want to, they have been discouraged from birth, from hundreds of years of male domineering, from governments, the media, society in general telling women, no demanding women not to participate in sports or strenuous activity, it was and still is drummed into women that their place is still in the home chained to the kitchen sink, they have been and still are being brainwashed in to believing the same old shite about what makes a woman, we are not as progressive as we believe ourselves to be as a number of posts in this thread clearly show.

I'll bet someone comes along and points out that washing clothes by hand, kneading dough by hand, scrubbing floors and many other things deemed 'traditional woman's work' are in fact, really quite strenuous activities.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I thought a lot of new cars didn't have a spare wheel, so it would be a pointless exercise trying to change something that isn't there, I imagine this isn't a very constructive post.

I specifically asked for a spare wheel for my current car. The previous car had a blowout and no gloopy stuff was going to fix the tyre by the time I pulled up. It was a b/h and no local tyre places. So was ages before got back on road again.