I don't see many other cyclists at all when I'm out, so I can't comment on actual riders, but I have learned that at the LBS it's best for me to ask for a female to assist me when I need something. The first time I went shopping for a road bike, a man "helped" me. He told me that a novice like me shouldn't be considering a road bike, that it's not normal to go from a hybrid to a road bike, and that I was foolish to consider that the increased hand positions of a road bike was going to offer me any relief from my wrist hurting on the flat handlebars of the hybrid. I left there without having tested ANY bikes, feeling dejected and amateurish. I was so mad!!!! No woman at the LBS has treated me that way.