[RBW] Re: Dearth of female riders in SoCal was: The myth of the all-rounder.

2009-09-09 Thread David Estes
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:52 PM, CycloFiend wrote: > > on 9/9/09 3:36 PM, Lisa -S.H. at harmo...@fairpoint.net wrote: > > > > Ryan Watson wrote: > >> A while back on one of these lists someone asked about "how to get > >> more chicks into cycling?" > >> The best response was "stop calling them chi

[RBW] Re: Dearth of female riders in SoCal was: The myth of the all-rounder.

2009-09-09 Thread CycloFiend
on 9/9/09 3:36 PM, Lisa -S.H. at harmo...@fairpoint.net wrote: > > Ryan Watson wrote: >> A while back on one of these lists someone asked about "how to get >> more chicks into cycling?" >> The best response was "stop calling them chicks!" > > My own take on some guy asking about "how to get mor

[RBW] Re: Dearth of female riders in SoCal was: The myth of the all-rounder.

2009-09-09 Thread Lisa -S.H.
Ryan Watson wrote: > A while back on one of these lists someone asked about "how to get > more chicks into cycling?" > The best response was "stop calling them chicks!" My own take on some guy asking about "how to get more chicks into cycling?" would be: to stop thinking that it takes men to

[RBW] Re: Dearth of female riders in SoCal was: The myth of the all-rounder.

2009-09-09 Thread Ryan Watson
n terms of gender balance. Maybe we just need a different way of > promoting > these things? > > What's not to like about a bunch of guys wearing sweaty wool? > > Dustin > > >> From: Aaron Thomas >> Reply-To: >> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:58:35 -

[RBW] Re: Dearth of female riders in SoCal was: The myth of the all-rounder.

2009-09-09 Thread Dustin Sharp
t; Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:58:35 -0700 (PDT) > To: RBW Owners Bunch > Subject: [RBW] Re: Dearth of female riders in SoCal was: The myth of the > all-rounder. > > > For what it's worth, I invited two women friends out for Sunday's > ride . One, who doesn't hav

[RBW] Re: Dearth of female riders in SoCal was: The myth of the all-rounder.

2009-09-09 Thread Aaron Thomas
For what it's worth, I invited two women friends out for Sunday's ride . One, who doesn't have an off-road appropriate bike (or even a BOBish bike), said she'd be up for riding, but could naturally only do paved rides on her modern, tight clearance rig. The other, who has a cross bike, was basical

[RBW] Re: Dearth of female riders in SoCal was: The myth of the all-rounder.

2009-09-09 Thread doug peterson
And you don't have to ride a Rivendell! On last Sunday's ride, someone counted 3 Rivs among about a dozen bikes. It's a tolerant bunch that way. dougP On Sep 9, 9:48 am, Esteban wrote: > Yea - here's a call out - if you are one of the 25 million or so souls > living in Southern California, an

[RBW] Re: Dearth of female riders in SoCal was: The myth of the all-rounder.

2009-09-09 Thread Esteban
Yea - here's a call out - if you are one of the 25 million or so souls living in Southern California, and are a woman, and like and ride bobbish bikes, then come out! Esteban San Diego, Calif. On Sep 8, 7:58 pm, jason wrote: > for what its worth...i've only ever seen 3 rivendell bikes being > r

[RBW] Re: Dearth of female riders in SoCal was: The myth of the all-rounder.

2009-09-09 Thread jason
for what its worth...i've only ever seen 3 rivendell bikes being ridden here in new york city ...and 2 of them were being ridden by women... 2 bleriots and 1 atlantis... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[RBW] Re: Dearth of female riders in SoCal was: The myth of the all-rounder.

2009-09-09 Thread Lisa -S.H.
I own two bikes, both are steel. My first was a 54cm Rambouillet, which despite all our tweaks still leaves me feeling unbalanced and with some elbow pain. I set it up with rack and panniers to use as an errand bike now. After 2 years I got a custom made TIG-welded Luna steel bike, which I fee