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Overcoming barriers for female cyclists: A cross-national bikesharing study
- 082349872349872 2y agoDarkness is a social problem, and inclement weather a textile problem, but hilliness might be a problem lessened by getting them on a bike while they're still small enough to bounce? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVFu2OgWQBU&t=120s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVFu2OgWQBU&t=120s Fish may not need bicycles, but these humans are throwing tricks I'd never attempt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D424_41uh3E&t=2422s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D424_41uh3E&t=2422s I never even managed a bootlegger reverse (although attempting to learn did teach me how to turn flying over handlebars into graceful dismounts), yet these women are getting over a meter of air: I'd call that enough to be chasing the clouds away. (unlike netball, which is a female-dominated sport with the recent addition of mixed [and even male-only] teams, it looks like cycle ball started out mixed[1] but these days, from what I can find on YouTube, is played segregated[2]: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_ball#/media/File:Liebig_bike_polo.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_ball#/media/File:Liebig_... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib0DhW1qGrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib0DhW1qGrU )
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