New Biker, Was recently shunned!

[Pedal Wench]

I just rode my mtb for the 3-Day, with pink streamers, a pink stuffed hare on my seatpost bag, and every inch of the top tube covered by a fuzzy pink boa. And people thought I was a hero for doing it. Proud to be Pink.

[teresa]

Sorry, don't know what was going on with my fingers. What I was trying to type was "secure", not "secury". Now I'm not feeling very "secury" about my typing.

[alicestrong]

Hey there

Sorry that happened...

I'm building my first fixed gear bike and it's going to be pink. Yeah! Proud to be pink!

[caribou]

What a great thread!

Check this out for something similar from Seana Hogan, multiple-time Race Across America woman winner who gave the guys a run for their money, too:

http://gainesvillecyclingclub.org/1995/10seana.html

I also had a snitty comment from a woman rider once, re. my Speedplay cleats, of all things. She seemed put out the whole ride that I was there; everybody else was nice. This was a group ride I was trying for the first time. At our rest stop, she said loudly, in a snarky voice, in my hearing, "Those cleats she's wearing. Those are the ones that are supposed to be hard to walk in, aren't they?"

I was too shocked to give the obvious answer--"They're a little awkward to walk in, but they're meant for riding and they're great for that"--which would have been delivered with a sweet smile and tone of voice that made it clear that I was the much nicer person of the two of us . Needless to say, never tried a ride with that group again.

Thank heavens most riders, women AND men, are nice, supportive, etc. etc.

Re. FatBottom Girls Ride: maybe we need multiple venues at once!! An International FatBottom Girls Day. Complete with bike bells encourageed on all bikes. I would SO go for that!

And, is that Slug shirt available somewhere??????

Okay, enough time wasted reading about riding. Time to get on the bike.

[KnottedYet]

The hill slug shirt is here on TE: http://www.teamestrogen.com/products.asp?pID=23089

Maybe the rude chickie was just jealous of your cleats. I've heard of road bike riders getting a little friendly harrassement for using mtb cleats, but can't say I've heard of someone getting it for road cleats! (and SPEEDPLAY of all things!)

[KnottedYet]

And I totally agre with Seana Hogan: I love whuppin' the racer types on my steel bikes while wearing a skirt and all the fred reflectors and screaming yellow I own. It's especially sweet when I'm also wearing my flip-flop sandals.

(the best one yet was when I did it on an uphill riding a steel mixte singlespeed! Wheeeeee!)