HELP NEEDED PLEASE! Opinions and comments wanted :)

[tangentgirl]

Also alot of women who don't bike, have been turned off by the experience of cycling a bike that doesn't fit them. Bike fit is something I find myself repeating patiently, over and over and over.

I have to jump on this bandwagon too. I remember a bike I had in high school, that I was supposed to use to commute my senior year. This is years after I stopped riding my fun kid bike around the neighborhood. It was a free bike, and it was way too big, and the seat hurt, and my back hurt after riding, and it generally sucked to ride it. I ended up begging rides off of friends with cars for the year, because it just wasn't fun. It was kind of a fluke that I even considered cycling again.

[MomOnBike]

Judging from my athletic daughter in that age range, one reason is, yes, helmet head - and the related problem of arriving somewhere all sweaty.

Also, it's just not Cool.

Me, I ride because I dislike driving a car and walking is slow.

[shootingstar]

Gave my ideas why more women don't cycle.

But why I cycle and I have been for past 18 years after returning to cycling at 31... is: for fitness-enjoyment, transportation since we are car-free in our lifestyle for many years...for getting around city and also for vacation trips.

I can also transport things such as heavy groceries more easily on bike compared to walking.

As for students who are "poor", not denying that stage that I and many TE folks have experienced. However it floors me, how many students these days have money to pay for gas, car maintenance and drive to university/college. It wasn't quite like that when I was a student awhile back.

[zoom-zoom]

As for students who are "poor", not denying that stage that I and many TE folks have experienced. However it floors me, how many students these days have money to pay for gas, car maintenance and drive to university/college. It wasn't quite like that when I was a student awhile back.

I was poor because I had to pay for those things...on top of rent, groceries, and tuition. We also got married just before I turned 24, so from about 22.5 until then I was saving for wedding costs, too. Mom and dad couldn't afford to foot the bill on any of this for me, as I was the eldest of 3 with a sibling still at home and another in college, as well.