Woman Racers, Grid Girls, and feminists!

[ophic]

Originally Posted by Quedos

whipping the boys backsides.

Don't all Scottish girls do that though?
EDIT: born in 1994 - i take it back!

no probs with pit girls they are just walking adverts as per david becham in his Calvin clines and to be honest theres not a huge amount of ******s learing at them

But the 'glamour stars' they used at the NEC last year on the custom bikes were wrong all they did was play to the pervs

(and i wouldn't have wanted to clean the crome on those after they had done thier show)

Originally Posted by pencil shavings

I once had the most crazy debate with a girl who claimed that women rugby players could play equally aganst men. come on, lets not be silly.

They can....

You try training a womens rugby team, then have 3 beefy girls jump on you, squeezing nipples, grabbing your balls........ 3 of us blokes didn't have a chance... But when we turned round and ran at them properly... Litterally walked straight over the top of them (well ran...). Soon as our shoulders dropper properly... BOOM, wipeout.... (our girl rugby team were proper beefcakes )

I went down, bundle ensued......

But could they? No..... Fact...

Does it just boil down to boys are encouraged and girls aren't?

Sexist I know but even in these days of equality there are still many things that are kept apart.

Risk taking has always been a "male" area even in the simple things in life - to climb a tree or not. Theres always an exception to a rule and that girl would go on to try and break in to the male dominated areas - a tomboy!

Do those fathers who race instinctively want to protect their females from risk ?

I could go on as to the many reasons why females will not break into the elite racing fraternity - see F1

Maybe someone needs to stick their neck out and have female only racing to see how many females are actually interested in the competive side of the sport.

There will always be the watchers, the doers and the why doesnt this happen regardless of the sport

It seems it will be one of those questions that fit the same ilk as the answer to life , the universe and everything.

[ophic]

we've had topless darts. Topless racing, anyone?

[TEC]

Originally Posted by sinbad

... The sponsors would probably choose to invest in a girl rather than a young lad if they were of equal (fairly competitive) speed.....

Not in the lower classes they don't ....

Originally Posted by Kate SV650

There was a woman in 125 GP's a few years back.

I believe you mean Lisa Ross, a very good friend of mine who spent a lot of time and effort trying to get sponsorship form anyone and everyone with very limited success even though she consitantly won races or took 2nd place at her level. A young lad at the time had no problems getting sponsorship from the same places Lisa had tried but never been on the podium before.

I'll let the video do the talking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CpOAODZbz8

BTW, She was about 13 or 14 when that video was shot.

Originally Posted by Lozzo

I'll let the video do the talking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CpOAODZbz8

BTW, She was about 13 or 14 when that video was shot.

And that is impressive..

see this lot who are very active in BMSEE racing and som,e of them are very good


http://www.bikegirl.co.uk/ladies/feistyracing.html

Woww for some reason i think that looks really good.