I'd say I see as many women cycling on the streets as men, but when it comes to mountainbiking, I tend to be the only woman in a group. Or, as in my recent holiday, I tend to be the only one among some other women who ends up cycling with a bunch of men, because the others find things "too hard" or "scary".

In my experience a lot of women like this position of "not being able to do something", being "too fragile", "too weak" etc. - a mindset that every woman can easily change on her own.

What I find interesting is that I often see men in nice cycling gear with top-end bikes, accompanied by women on heavy bikes towing a trailer or having a childseat on the rack. I remember that it was just this way when I was a kid - dad cycling off on his nice roadbike, mom following with us kids on the back of her bike or our little bikes. I can imagine that this can't be fun...