Someone gave me the heads up about this, I'm damn sure alot of you will have read it. But i thought I'd stick it up for those that missed it like i did. Makes for really good reading and raises quite a few good point's about females and mountain biking.
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Why-No-Y-Mitchell-Scott-2012.html
The main point within it i think actually need's addressing is this stigma that guy's want to ride with guys and girls ride with girl's.. And yeah it has ended up being like that within all discipline's. And if you ask me it's not our choice i know a girl who ride's trials and she don't really ride with her other half because he like's riding with his friends so to make him happy she leaves him to it.
On the other side of the coin my other half seem's to always want me out riding with him, if i can't be bothered one day he end's up not going (hence why 90% of the time to save argument i end up going). I have always rode bike's and before meeting my other half i generally did ride with other girl's and the guy's were off being general men wanting to do the massive hill's and drop off's while we were more happy chilling down the slow walking path's and avoiding certain jump's.
And if people do want more girl's to ride bikes then we need to be made to feel a little more welcome, I wouldn't say i have had any bad experiences with other riders but i'm still quite fresh to it all. Some of the other girl's have some right horror story's witch i think we are a little too quick to share, and this can put new rider's off. But if guy's didn't for some reason believe it's a men's sport then there would be more female's riding.
Quick question to everyone, why do i seem to be the only active girl on here that post's. Admittedly i'm very slow so i have probably missed some of the snide comment's or miss read them as a compliment and yes there can be some complete knob head keyboard warriors on here, but there's some really cool people too.
Shit stick's and people only remember the bad. And I'm very sorry that this post has turned into a complete rant!