special women's section!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Received the latest issue of Bicycling magazine yesterday in the mail. On the cover is a gold sticker that says "Special 24-page women's section inside!"
When I rule the world, they will need a gold sticker for their special men's section.

You said it, sister. What a load of BS. How insulting!

I just subscribed to this biking magazine that Mimi brought to my attention:
http://www.momentumplanet.ca/
Seems to have a pretty balanced emphasis on all kinds of bike riding and all kinds of people who ride bikes, and a general bike-friendly earth-friendly attitude. Definitely not emphasizing road racing over everything else.
Seems pretty cool.

[beccaB]

Women don't get equal treatment in the bike stores as well as bike magazines. I went to four bike stores and not one of them had more than one pair of shoes for me to try on. Even my favorite bike shop had to special order a few pairs for me to try on. It's been 2 weeks, and they're still not in yet. It's maddening!

[ny biker]

Women don't get equal treatment in the bike stores as well as bike magazines. I went to four bike stores and not one of them had more than one pair of shoes for me to try on. Even my favorite bike shop had to special order a few pairs for me to try on. It's been 2 weeks, and they're still not in yet. It's maddening!

That's why the shop I go to the most is one that is owned by a married couple. Both the husband and the wife are very active in the management of the shop. They are very supportive of the local cycling community in general and specifically they make a point of supporting women who ride.

[missjulied]

I was quite shocked getting into cycling after having been into climbing at how second-class we're considered. With climbing there was never an issue with getting woman-specific or smaller clothes/shoes, I was never treated differently at the gyms, and Climbing magazine seems to contain an equal proportion of men to women.

But cycling? What a difference! Tough to get clothes/bikes/shoes, mentioned as an aside in magazines, and forget about ever seeing any women's races on tv.

What's really weird is that the proportion of women to men that I see riding really isn't that different from what I saw at the climbing gym.