Author Topic: Women, show us yer bike face...  (Read 5473 times)

ravenbait

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Re: Women, show us yer bike face...
« Reply #25 on: 09 July, 2021, 12:14:55 pm »
And this is why I have never berated any woman offering that reason. Fortunately, we do not yet have thought police.

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Re: Women, show us yer bike face...
« Reply #26 on: 09 July, 2021, 12:54:57 pm »
Remove that post IMMEDIATELY!

ravenbait

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Re: Women, show us yer bike face...
« Reply #27 on: 09 July, 2021, 01:35:52 pm »
Also, of course, because it's not women's fault society and their employers have inculcated them with the expectation they look like they've stepped from a Vogue advert.

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Re: Women, show us yer bike face...
« Reply #28 on: 09 July, 2021, 01:38:26 pm »
I was told a couple of weeks ago about a woman in her late 60s who is cycling LEJOG on a Brompton with a small dog in a basket. Alas, I don't know how to contact her to get her photo for this. 

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Re: Women, show us yer bike face...
« Reply #29 on: 09 July, 2021, 01:41:25 pm »
If I'm riding my bike somewhere where helmet hair may be an issue (it definitely is a thing if you're climbing 280m in 14km to get to work where there are no showers), I take the radical approach of... [don't tell my mum] ...

not wearing a helmet.

Anyways, as ever, I'm not the target audience.

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Re: Women, show us yer bike face...
« Reply #30 on: 09 July, 2021, 06:06:28 pm »
No. No, it is not.

Some of us start with the left foot on the pedal :D

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J

It gets worse.  Sometimes I've been known to start with both feet on the pedals and a hand on the ground…
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Re: Women, show us yer bike face...
« Reply #31 on: 09 July, 2021, 06:36:32 pm »
Alas, I lack the ape-factor required for that trick.  Or a sufficiently-reclined bike, I suppose, but I like to have a vague idea of what I'm crashing into.

Anyway, put me down as an ambi-footrous weirdo.

ETA: Barakta points out that she starts off with both feet on the pedals and *no* hands on the ground.

Re: Women, show us yer bike face...
« Reply #32 on: 09 July, 2021, 06:38:31 pm »
No. No, it is not.

Some of us start with the left foot on the pedal :D

Sinister weirdo :p

J

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Re: Women, show us yer bike face...
« Reply #33 on: 09 July, 2021, 09:53:50 pm »
I have most definitely cycled with a beer in one hand. I'm not crazy though, it was a plastic glass, and I'd drunk enough not to spill it, which is important when you're cycling all way from Embankment to Bermondsey (which is thirsty work, so go prepared).

I've also cycled down Brick Lane at 4am while eating a bagel.