[Closed] Its awful, there are hardly any female mountain bikers

It's the spelling that's awful!!!

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or AWFUL...? you decide....

Or he might be full of awe

Offal?

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i saw some female MTBers at Grizedale t'other week. Both wearing pink and navigating some north shore.

Jiblob!

i started riding in 87 or so, but by 90/91 had slacked right of. then met a girl in the pub who was fully into mountainbiking, she dragged me out and got me all stoked on it again (hav'nt stopped since). had some of the most fun biking i've ever had with her up on woodbury common, and though we've long lost touch i still look back with much fondness to those easy days.

personally i'd much rather ride with girls than blokes any day, never seem to get the silly oneupmanship as with an all bloke group.

There were a couple of lovely lady MTBers at Sherwood Pines last Saturday who were being given some skills tuition.

Well if you ride around Ashton Court in Bristol after work or on a sunny weekend, I reckon around 60% of the riders are women.

Away from trail centers etc, the ratio is a lot lower but then again I reckon I only see 4 or 5 riders a day when I am riding with a map rather than being spoon fed routes.

Jokes aside.
personally I'm not surprised. i know/speak for two ladies that visit here (mostly to sell their stuff, one being my girlfriend) they would never post here due to trolling/attitudes/internet ego's of some ppl.
don't see that changing at any point.

and even less that do DH

Tbh im not surprise. Im female and I ride with guys and the amount of inappripriate jokes and behaviour is rediculous if they've had too much suger 😛 but yeah i only know about 3? other women who ride and they ride XC n i ride DH....im not too fussed though still have a good laugh with males or females...

An ex-housemate of mine is well into mtbing and she is HOTT.

oh dear... i should have suffixed with (sic) or at least quotes.

"ts aweful, there are hardly any female mountain bikers" is a quote from the other thread. someone said 'I've never seen some post... 'it's aweful, there are hardly any female mountain bikers'...

... so, as a joke...

oh, never mind

I'm well into biking and weirdly my boss just asked if I had to choice between MTB and boyfriend what would I do!! Oh dear what a dilemma .... 😉 especially as I met Mr MC at a 23 hour MTB race.
I love DH and certainly find myself in the minority in Morzine, what makes me laugh is men and their ego about getting overtaking by a woman! Brilliant!!

never seem to get the silly oneupmanship as with an all bloke group.

and that's a [i]good[/i] thing. Nah! 8)

Met my wife riding in Ashton court.

Well if you ride around Ashton Court in Bristol after work or on a sunny weekend, I reckon around 60% of the riders are women.

[i]REALLY[/i] ???

I'll grant you there are more women riders out in AC than I've seen just about anywhere else, but I'd still have said they represented only about 10-15% of the riders I encounter.

Or maybe they're all just avoiding me and my garish lycra.

Yep, if its Sunny seems to be about that ratio. My missus (who normally works away in the week) thought I was winding her up about it. However she went out the other week, and agreed with me the women outnumbered the men on the trail.

I have to say though that if its raining, it ratio seems drop off a little. 😉

either that or I am being stalked by gangs of fit women who are into mountain biking, but don't like to ride anywhere else but Ashton court. Which regardless of how much I would like to be true, I doubt is.

Tis getting more and more poplular for the ladies...

Guess it's a way for them to go out and find out way their husbands/partners are coming home tired and sweaty after several hrs away from home...

My missus rides more often than I do.

fozzybear-totally agree with everything you've written.

I've been riding (well pootling) around the Peaks on an mtb. for over 10 years, there are more Ladies around now than then.

I'm awful too.

Will I be hounded as sexist if I said I couldn't give a crap? 😐

Probably but I agree!

Where's Ashton?

My gf rides more than I do and i'm no great slacker!

Who on earth would want girls on the trails? They might need a puncture fixed 😉

Ashton Court Bristol, and yes there is a strangely high proportion of girls riding there.

I'd fix your puncture anytime, CG... 😉

In reality, Bristol is the Transsexual capital of the UK, so all maybe not as it seems....

seriously, i've ridden up there lots and they all pee standing up!!!

And yes i've taken a peek..

Weeners lol

back in the uk days my riding was based out of windermere and on numerous occasions i glimpsed an uber hot brunette on a cindercone always on her own, she was always finishing her ride into sawrey as we were pounding up the climb from the ferry, "konababe" still haunts my dreams.....

woman are designed for cooking, cleaning and looking after kids NOT riding bikes....

in reality, Bristol is the Transsexual capital of the UK, so all maybe not as it seems....

Is it really? That's cheered me up no end.

"they all pee standing up"

But all Bristol girls do that don't they?

I'm sure this is OT, but, yep, Bris has got a lot of transexuals. When I worked on Glossy rd, we had several regulars as customers. Always difficult to know how to address them of choose a product for them when you couldn't really define their gender. We had one "woman" who was 6 foot plus, dressed in over-feminised pink dresses and had very hairy hands. And the legendry Sapphire was a regular punter too - always good to see him camping it up on the streets, added a splash of colour! He once offered me a tenner for my saturday boy! I miss Gloucester rd!

I miss Gloucester rd!

It's still a great street. The chains haven't really ever got a foothold there. Still full of great pubs and independent traders.

There were almost as many women MTBers as men in my close friends, but since they've had kids they've let it slip a bit unfortunately.

I think its great seeing more women getting into biking, perhaps you ladies should encourage your non biking girlfriends to give it a try. My partner and I took her Niece out around pines - first time on a mountain bike, rode the lot and loved it!

Releuctant,
Sapphire is still going strong - I had a brief chat on Saturday, and you could see the 6-pack below the crop-top he was wearing. Where did you work?

Hunnybop - Ashton COurt is a park just outside Bristol which used to be a stately home estate owned by the Wills (cigarette) family.

yeah me and haddock saw tonnes on Sunday