More girls and bikes ... A trilogy ... I’m a curious lad :oD

Re-adjust your pre-conceptions and just accept that we ALL ride bikes for more or less the same reasons.

We are women, we ride bikes, we come in different sizes and shapes and different backgrounds and have different looks. Oddly enough, just like male bikers.

I'm getting tired of this crap.

Well, I for one was never around bikes as a kid and neither have I had a fella who was a biker.

For me it's all in the ride.

Seriously, whilst I'm a curious amateur with the mechanics and the asthetics appeal to my artistic nature - it really all boils down to the spirituality of the ride.

I've ridden horses since I was about 4 and bikes are simply a faster progression from that. To really appreciate both you can't just sit on them and go through the motions - no matter how technically proficient you are.

You have to bond with the beast, be it flesh and blood or mechanical. In doing so your senses are expanded to include theirs, their natural movements become yours and the end result is a strange, uniquely living hybrid creature ,that grants a sense of freedom from mundane life that is rarely equalled.

Perhaps this is why it is sometimes so hard to explain biking in mundane terms.

But then again, maybe I was warped by seeing Herbie movies as a kid!

Thoroughly object to being classified as on oddly enough male biker nothing odd about me ,strange, stupid,egotistic,chauvanistic maybe but not odd

Originally Posted by Ping

Re-adjust your pre-conceptions and just accept that we ALL ride bikes for more less the same reasons.

We are women, we ride bikes, we come in different sizes and shapes and different backgrounds and have different looks. Oddly enough, just like male bikers.

I'm getting tired of this crap.

Difference is that I’d say the majority of young boys like the idea of having a bike, many never will, but they still like the idea. Where as I’d say the overwhelming majority or girls wouldn’t even contemplate the idea.

Following on from what K said - horse riding is great example of this in reverse. It’s the majority of little girls dreams to ride a horse/have a pony, where as the majority of males just are not interested, especially as a boy.

I had couple of girlfriends in the past that were into horses (i.e. actually owned them, not just liked the idea). They have fundamentally been different sorts of people to the non-horsy girls I have gone out with. Again this might just be my sample set?!

So you see we are not all the same …

listen bud - don't even try to understand us

My point being why does it matter?

Rather than pointing at us and saying 'ooh you're different to other girls' why just not see us and think we have something in common?

I feel strongly that you're trying to categorise us.

all I have to say is fair play to all the women on the forum, not castrating him with a rusty spoon already.

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

Where as I’d say the overwhelming majority or girls wouldn’t even contemplate the idea.

I'd probably go further than that. In that most females have a pre conceived stereotypical vision that girls just dont ride bikes, in the same way that 30 years ago women stayed at home at brought up children and didnt go to work.

Then you get some girls that pass their test and then think that even though they've passed a test that they cant ride.

Then you get the whole male thing were some blokes think that women cant and shoudlnt ride. So therefore they dont, because in there head they think they cant do it as all there lives they've seen biking as a male pastime and nobody has ever told them that anybody can do whatever they want to, the only thing that stops you is you.

I can give you an example of this.

Liz is begining to look for a new bike, She wants an R1. We went to a Yamaha dealer a few weeks back and were nattering to the salesman, who thought it was me that was after the R1, when Liz said she was interested in it. His reply was "Why do you want a litre bike" and he looked utterly disgusted that my girlfriend wanted a bigger sports bike than he himself had the balls to ride ( he admited the he had an R1 and sold it as it scared him ) we both walked out the shop so in the long run he's lost a sale.

Is pre-convceived stereotypical blokes like that put girls off riding bikes.

End of.

Its refreshing IMHO that there are so many girls on this site that ride. It makes a plesant change that instead of the "oh I'm pathetic I cant do it" b*ll*x that I read on other websites, that Ping, K, Kate, RizzlaSV, Cazza, Lynw, Coolgirl, BBC, Need2ride all ride and of course Liz ( e.d. ) IMHO all ride well*

I think what I'm trying to say is that they want to be seen as bikers no different from any other and some people cant accept this and have to put them into a catergory where they can be defined. It shouldnt matter and doesnt matter what gender you are if you ride a bike you ride it.

*apologies for leavnig anybody out

Liz has been mistaken many times for a bloke she always laughs at the shocked reaction she gets from other bikers or people who dont expect to see a girl on a bike. I think its sad.

... and quite frankly Blue, up until now you've tempered every compliment with something incredibly chauvenistic.


Edit: Fizz - ooh, ta.

Blimey, I must have made a good impression, given that Fizz has only ever seen me ride once! (and under 'interesting' circumstances)


I have to say tho, that I did always get huge satisfaction from being able to outride any bloke in a car or on a bike that thought I was a soft target. Eat my flames, sucka!