[Closed] how many women are they on stw?

check out the "what lights for your shed" post - that where the chicks will be cruising

you obviously haven't been using this forum long enough 😉

since 2006 🙂

they used to frequent the 'Friday Sexy Bloke' threads but since the hack the've gone quiet......... well except aleigh that is 😆

Ok, think it's time to get the Friday sexy bloke going again!
If only I could find him!!! 😉

Look around at any trailcenter and about 80-90 percent maybe more of the mountainbikers are male and many of the females that are there are only there because their other half is a mountainbiker. That doesn't leave many women seriously interested in mountainbiking. And then there is the fact that internet forums on any subject are generally frequented by men. Combine these two facts and you will see why there are so few females on here. Although there a few women I've seen on here.

I'm on here when I'm not stuck in the office! But I'm a "proper" MTBer I started at 13 and have been serious since, used to race nationally and now do downhilling in Morzine every summer! Have been with other half for last 6 years after we met at 24 hour race (SITS) when I stepped in at the last minute to fill a space on the team! I cannot imagine dating a bloke that isn't into MTBing ... I LOVE it more than anything .. so much fun!!!

It could be argued that half the people at trails centres aren't proper mountain bikers. I've ridden with women that will put a lot men to shame on the trails. It's funny watching the men try to keep up with them thinking they can take them.

Me too! Only just got round to re-registering.
Mountain biked for 10 years or more, does't mean I'm any good tho! (I bake good cakes to make up for my slowness)
Can't even do that at the moment 🙁 Off the bike due to surgery on my hand. Looks like it'll be a while yet too...... 😥

Better phrased as two questions, i.e. "How many women? Are they on STW?"

Good for assessing [i]any[/i] situation, imo.

@Spesh99 - I dont think there are any women that would want to post on here if they weren't into mountain biking.

Though my other half got me into biking, I have always been outdoorsy and I can see how that would lead women into mountain biking.

I'm a lady. Would you like to meet taka?

"It could be argued that half the people at trails centres aren't proper mountain bikers."

yup, i am more of a gentle-incline biker

i'm always here 😉

Not heard from Bunnyhop, Bumley, Clarey, Mamadirt, Mrs Flash and so on for ages.

I miss 'em, they made the place more civilised.

[i]"It could be argued that half the people at trails centres aren't proper mountain bikers"[/i]

Only in the sense that the cat in the box may - or may not - be dead.

nearly dead, but only i know that........

steve i would like to keep me anal vaginity but thanks for the offer

you see loads of women out when your riding but they always look fed up like theyve been dragged out i saw one in guisburn forest (lancs) on a v10 she was saying its a cr@p bike for going down hills on i offered my 1993 marin but she declined and said she wouldnt be seen dead on it i felt getted =(

hands off Austin, I've been grooming Taka for months!

=(

Don't you worry - we are always here ;-D

i ride like a girl.....no scratch that, i'm not that good 🙁

thinkin of buyin this....

[img] http://www.spreadshirt.net/en/GB/Create-t-shirt/Create-your-own--59/article/5030716/department/1/ [/img]

Me too, but I mainly lurk or write teeny tiny posts in teeny tiny threads which disappear very quickly.

anna, you must have started the single geekyest titled thread in the history of STW!

"Bulk image file size reduction - Mac"

There are less geeky subections of the mandelbrot set!

only on STW could you get a topic giving information about how to shrink your porn stash to make room for more porn. Allongside such ultimate questions as.....................

is 2 girls 1 cup for real? or is it chocolate ice cream?

oh yeah..... but that was during the day and doesn't count. the names annabananna to you anyway, thisisnotaspoon.

And don't be forgetting it Spoony.

I can call you Spoony, right ?

And another girlie here, but I post much less frequently than I used to, and given I've been off the bike since August last year, due to a dodgy knee, I don't feel much like a mtb'er at the moment... But come summer I hope to be back to my full strength.

Must restart the Friday Bloke thread...

I'm still around, just not posting much atm.

I hope some of you girls will be coming to the Big bike Bash. I don't much fancy a weekend of live music, biking and beer festival with just 500 other blokes.

And I have ordered seperate toilet and shower blocks so you are not contaminated with man cleaning.

spoony and tina(s)seem to be popular.

*must resist remptation to say "thats not what your mum/fatsimons wife calls me"

I lurk in the stw shadows occasionally popping my head out to see whats going on inbetween bouts of work!

I've got quite girly breasts. Does that count?

I've been around for years, only occasional poster, and changed my name with the new forum.

I love getting out and riding, but I'm not interested in bikes as such, so I rarely post on the bike forum. Luckily I have a Mr Cooroo (aka StuE) to maintain, fettle and clean the bikes.

It's a good forum for a woman to just lurk on, you get a lot of insight into the male psyche. Or to be fair, lots of male psyches.

psyches or psychos?

Im still here

Tracey

I lurk. But then my work doesn't involve computers much (except for the end user!) so I rarely go on the internet!

Well I'm totally new and I'm not a lurker!

I've counted at least 10 or 11 ladies on just this thread, so I reckon there are more out there than the fellas thought.
Lets make this "our" thread!

Anyone live in the south-east as I am trying to drum up some gals to come to Bedgeburys women only training course on the 14th and 21st March.

http://www.boarsonbikes.co.uk/courses.html

any takers? should be fun!

Ali. 🙂

I know a couple of ladies who are in to mountain biking and were registered on here before the hack. However unlike a lot of the blokes on here they posted when they wanted a specific piece of information or advice, rather than wasting away their lives debating the merits of various tyre treads.

[i]Anyone live in the south-east as I am trying to drum up some gals to come to Bedgeburys women only training course ......... any takers? should be fun! [/i]

Giggidy!

We likes girls 'ere....

[rubs thighs with hands]

😉

psyches or psychos?

That too...

Flexgirl nice to meet you. I come from south east but ran away to Yorkshire many years ago. Rode at Bedgebury once, and wasn't madly impressed, but it should be fine for training. Enjoy!

I'm female, last time I looked. I wouldn't get away with saying I'm a lady though.

I wouldn't get away with saying I'm a lady though.

You are about the nicest lady one here my dear Jojo 😉
X

I'm female, last time I looked. I wouldn't get away with saying I'm a lady though

Well yeah who wants to be that! The "ladies" in little britain springs to mind. 😆

Flexgirl - Member

I'm female, last time I looked. I wouldn't get away with saying I'm a lady though

Well yeah who wants to be that! The "ladies" in little britain springs to mind.

Well there are those who say my facial hair is more luxurious than that of David Walliams in that sketch.... 🙂

hello boys, I'm here!

[s]waves willy[/s] [tucks willy between his legs and does the little "i'm a girl" dance]

But PK, we're just reminded of that scene in Silence of the Lambs... 😥

Careful, or Jodie Foster may come and kill you.

Another lurker here, decided to get an account after the hack, but I don't post that often.

well im another lady ! joined the forum about a year ago but since this website got hacked it took me ages to get back online and become registered agin..it wouldnt let me register for ages ??? anyway i use my real name now, isnstead of my old one..... so anyway im here now, hopefully to stay !

Another regular reader here, but dont post often, every time I have a query someone else has already asked something similar anyway so I end up just reading the thread.

so theres more of you than i thought better watch my mouth then =0

I've been around since 2004. Used to post as Cyclenaut, and spend a lot of time just lurking.

Yet another lurker 🙂 tend to avoid posting, and more likely to ask questions on Shecycles, which has now been resurected - hurrah! here: http://shecycles.forumdes.com/

Hi Punkass - good to see you again before Christmas - I was thinking of you yesterday cos I biked past my first lambs of the year 🙂

Waves.

Bumley was registered on the old site but not seen her online since before Christmas!

Mrs Hop.... for somebody that is meant to be on a Skiing hol you are spending far too much time on here!!!

I'm another girl - don't post very often though as I can't ride my bike due to a long-term leg injury.

MrsT

I am another lurker, and also tend ask q's/ post on the (new) Shecycles website, although its a bit quiet! Any other women from the South West/ Devon on here?

hullo 😀 also tend to read more than I write...

ok then theres lots of you

[i]Not heard from Bunnyhop, Bumley, Clarey, Mamadirt, Mrs Flash and so on for ages.[/i]

I'm permanently logged in - been a bit quiet today though as I've been busy researching [url= http://www.sandmbikes.com/ ]S and M[/url] for my new project 😉

I miss Bumley. She had a nice tattoo...

indeed bumley has great tattoos

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm still here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jedi and Coyote - Thanks i'm glad you like them!!

What I'm interested in is how [i]old[/i] the women on here are? If we're allowed to ask a lady such questions!

I think it's a fair point that most women get into mtbing when they get together with a man. So have we any female teenage/young twenties mtbers?

So have we any female teenage/young twenties mtbers?

Next comment's going to be from some stalking lecher "...useless without pics".

Oh. 😳

That's a funny thing to be interested in, allyharp. Unless of course you're the stalking lecher from kit's post.....
Sorry but weird question, illogical assumption.

Next comment's going to be from some stalking lecher "...useless without pics"

Yes it probably is a strange thing to wonder and probably my assumption was wrong, but it's just based on an observation of who I see out on the trails. You see men of all ages but there's an obvious gap in the ages of females I've passed, I don't I've ever seen any between about 12-26.

OK..... so by trails do you mean places like Afan? I started going xc/offroad before I'd had any b/fs into MTB, but only started going to places like Afan since going out with guys who were into biking too. I think that the trail centres are the more blokey side of a rather blokey sport. Dunno if that helps your great conundrum......

What can I say, I'm a statistician so constantly reading the demographics of my surroundings! All I was suggesting is that you don't see many teenage girls on bikes - surely somebody else has noticed?!

As far as trails go though I'm not really reading from a good sample, as most of my riding is just what's local to Glasgow. Not quite the busy-ness of trail centres but you do often see another 10 or so bikers out on a ride.

There were two ladies ridng at Leith Hill yesterday, one had a black Thorn Enduro - anyone on this thread?

I lurk here most evenings. It's better entertainment than the telly 🙂 I keep meaning to post more...

Well, I'm relatively new and sadly can be lumped in with the boys in the "wasting away their lives debating the merits of various tyre treads" category... I'm a geek...

allyharp, I fit your statistic nicely. 34 and got into riding through my boyfriend (as he was then).

I started riding at about 12/13, but that was all road riding.

Now 30 and do so much more mtb'ing than road riding
(well when my knee is back to full form i will be doing more mtb'ing - currently just doing a bit on the Turbo to strength it)

Nowt sexier than a lass on a bike
nom nom!
am i right in thinking this new forum doesnt support mugshots? :'(

New Grillfiend cant really ride a bike (shes very wobbly on the flat in the park)
but i see this more as a blank canvas more than a problem 😉

Another one here.
Been riding for about 3 years although not been riding much for the last 6 months (got into kayaking). Prefer to read threads on here than post. Have done all the 24hr enduro races, did Mega last year, ridden TMB unguided...

i'm still around too, but don't like this new forum so not been on here much.

allyharp - i started riding when i was 23 (now 29). Only road riding at the moment though, not been on my mtb since the Alps in August.