If you're a pretty woman, men will help you steal a bike

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

FFS 

[tonycollinet]

FFS 

Indeed!

[andygates]

If you're a pretty woman, men will help you

Nuff said. 

Over on another forum, I had to point out to someone who just weathered a big ol American storm that the reason the laydeez were asking to borrow his generator was not because the men were all Davy Crockett, it's because he's more likely to say "yes"...

[Rhys W]

If you're a pretty woman, men will help you

Nuff said. 

Any reasonably young and attractive woman on any of our clubruns will never have to fix a puncture. 

[Cunobelin]

If you're a pretty woman, men will help you

Nuff said. 

Any reasonably young and attractive woman on any of our clubruns will never have to fix a puncture. 

Slightly OT

I had a p*nct*re the other night on the way home on the Trike - so started to repair. Got to the stage of putting the tyre back on when a rather nice young lady pulled up and offered to help.

She noted I was using tyre levers (Marathon plus) and started a conversation about how to put tyres on without levers.

(At this point everything is rosey - approached by a nice young lady, pleasant conversation, blue sky, birds singing etc)

Then she had to spoil it with, but then again at your age the hands aren't as subtle or strong so you would probably find it difficult.

I am only in my mid 50"s!

[greenmeansgo]

This youtube video reminds me of a program on TV called something like the Real Hustle - there's a pretty girl who is one of the hustlers and it's amazing what she gets away with!

[Cudzoziemiec]

OTOH we only see a bit of what happened. We don't know how many men refused to help her or maybe even called the police. Nor do we see what happened when the woman called the police - did they arrive to arrest the 'thief'? For those men (and any women) who helped the thief,    go straight to court, but overall it's tv for entertainment not a serious study.

[Charlotte]

Any reasonably young and attractive woman on any of our clubruns will never have to fix a puncture. 

I am neither young, nor particularly attractive, but when I first started riding out on club runs, on the occasions I had pu****res, I practically had the frame pump wrested from my hands by well meaning, but annoyingly patronising (male) clubmates.

It took them a number of months to realise that:

(1) I didn't want their help
(2) I didn't need their help
(3) I can fix a pu****re about twice as fast and with a much higher success rate than most of them can

One particular member of this parish once came very close to having his own CO2 cartridge inserted where the sun doesn't shine for attempting to take a wheel from my hands whilst I was fettling a flat tyre...

[Biggsy]

I really don't think I would help someone to unlock a bike if I suspected it wasn't theirs, no matter how pretty they were.  Maybe it's different for Americans?

One particular member of this parish once came very close to having his own CO2 cartridge inserted where the sun doesn't shine for attempting to take a wheel from my hands whilst I was fettling a flat tyre...

Doesn't bear thinking about if you punctured the cartridge during insertion.  

[Manotea]

Um, if any nubile cyclists of the female persuasion see me mending a puncture, they are welcome to rush over, wrest the tools from my hands and take over whilst their friends make me comfortable.

Well, I can dream...

[Charlotte]

But...Charlotte, didn't you win some sort of competition for repairing a puncture at speed?

I certainly did.  It was an Evans ladies' promotional night a few years ago.  I managed under a minute to get a tyre off, swop out the tube and get it back up to 100psi, beating a fabulously butch, snarly courier to the £100 prize...

[Jaded]

That's outrageous. I wouldn't have stopped.





She wasn't wearing a nurses uniform.

[bobb]

I kept thinking it was going to turn into a porn film at any moment....

[Kim]

I don't get enough punctures to have a representative sample, but my experience of YACFers (regardless of gender) is that they have the sense to let me fettle my own mechanicals, but will happily offer to do useful things like hold the bike while I get the wheel in/out or start going over the tyre while I locate the hole in the tube or vice-versa.

I can only assume you're all scared of me and/or think I'm much better at mechanical stuff than I actually am...

[bobb]

About 15 years ago I offered to help a woman get her child's pushchair off the train at Braintree station. She barked I CAN MANAGE!

I haven't offered to help a woman with anything since!

[jogler]

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I can only assume you're all scared of me and/or think I'm much better at mechanical stuff than I actually am... me

that's my take on the issue

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

About 15 years ago I offered to help a woman get her child's pushchair off the train at Braintree station. She barked I CAN MANAGE!

I haven't offered to help a woman with anything since!

You offered to help me with something the other day. I can't remember what, but you did. 

[Cunobelin]

I have found it safer to ask any cyclist if they have everything they need, that gives them the opportunity to ask for help without implying that they are either incapable

[mattc]

I usually KISS with
"You OK?"    cos it's easy to shout and hear.

Did this on <name drops famous climb> at the weekend, day before a big sportive. Rider replies:
"No problem, I'm just waiting for a spare wheel."

 

[andygates]

I don't get enough punctures to have a representative sample, but my experience of YACFers (regardless of gender) is that they have the sense to let me fettle my own mechanicals, but will happily offer to do useful things like hold the bike while I get the wheel in/out or start going over the tyre while I locate the hole in the tube or vice-versa.

I can only assume you're all scared of me and/or think I'm much better at mechanical stuff than I actually am...

Engineery-nerd trumps damsel-in-distress

[redshift]

Any reasonably young and attractive woman on any of our clubruns will never have to fix a puncture. 

I am neither young, nor particularly attractive...

I can't believe you lot allowed Charlotte get away with saying this.  What are you all thinking?   

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Do you want to argue with her?

[redshift]

Do you want to argue with her?

Wouldn't mind.   

[clarion]

Any reasonably young and attractive woman on any of our clubruns will never have to fix a puncture. 

I am neither young, nor particularly attractive...

I can't believe you lot allowed Charlotte get away with saying this.  What are you all thinking?   

I was away. 

[rower40]

I am neither young, nor particularly attractive...

I can't believe you lot allowed Charlotte get away with saying this.  What are you all thinking?   

It was at the Petrol Station in Epping Forest on the Dun Run when Charlotte found out that Roger had sigged this.  Her face was a picture, and the threats she issued painted a different one.

I too concurred with the general idea of "Disagreeing with Charlotte leads to a world of pain".  Nod sagely and walk away.