The women's group I ride with was just talking about this a couple of weeks ago. Most of these women have been riding for many, many years and we all laughed that we ALL had grease on our calves in some way, shape or form.

We decided that the concept of it being a 'rookie' mistake was probably invented by some guy who needed yet another reason to rag on some other guy who was probably kicking his butt! We figured that if you aren't getting bike grease on you...you aren't riding enough!