Dear Bike Companies:

[Kimmyt]

I hate the color on my bike. It's what I like to call 'My Little Pony Teal'. I'm considering putting pink or orange or purple handlebar tape on it, to complete the obnoxious color scheme thing.

I figure, if it's already ugly, I might as well have a little fun with it.

K.

[SouthernBelle]

Lynskey has their frames painted by motorcycle customizing shops.

[kat_h]

Honestly I don't even like the term WSD. I'd rather see them identified by what actually makes them different, smaller frames, narrower bars, whatever. I'm friends with a guy who is fairly short and really struggled to find a touring bike that fit. He probably would have done well with a WSD bike, but it didn't occur to him to look at them, and it didn't occur to bike shop guys to point him towards them. If they'd been labelled purely by size he might have checked them out.

[li10up]

Just to throw in my 2 cents... I too don't like the color schemes on most WSD bikes. I'm not 10 anymore and don't typically like my sporting equipment to look like they are marketed to young girls.

My other pet peeve about marketing to women....why do all the jerseys in the catalogs look like they belong on a woman with scoliosis? I and none of the women I know have ever stood in that position - all bent to the side.... I think it looks rediciculos....like we wouldn't know it's a woman's jersey if she wasn't posed all crooked...geez!