lack of girl riders..YES..lack of teenage girl riders..YES..

Bod · Traffic Copper Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Karma :

Look, its regardless of how you spell, we all know what you meant Laura.
Bod

Hex · Party Boy Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Bod · Traffic Copper Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Karma :

Nah, wasn't meant to be mate..... Wink

Hex · Party Boy Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Noggin · Traffic Copper Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Karma :

My mate charlie, she rides, got some sort of suzuki v twin chopper thingy, too shiny and low for my liking, but she claims it'll do 80 (125cc).

And in the bike park at college, we have (125s) my NSR, a CBR, charlie's bike, and non 125s, we have a restricted sv650, a DNA, and loads of peds, some girls ride them, but mostly, there are only 4 real bikes, if you include 125s as bikes, like I like to!

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hush · Scooby Slapper Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Karma :

Woman I work with 'used' to ride a bike, whilst she was living abroad. However, now she has come back to England has said she will not ride again... Aparently the roads are too narrow, and as such, dangerous.

Still, maybe she'll come back to her senses again one day Rolling Eyes

Dup · Nova Slayer Joined: 25 Apr 2004 Karma :

Woman i know was in the RAF for 20 years, she left to have kids and the what not and they gave her a VFR 800 as a leaving kinda present. She's one big lady you don't want to mess with.

I see loads of girl riders. I met an older woman just passed her CBT, riding some scootery thing. She rode alonside me for a while so i could direct her somehwere. She was really nervous.
Theres also this hot hot girl i saw getting on a scooter and i see riding a lot. Phwoar.. Never goes my way dammit. Plus i jump all queues even if theres only minute gaps and the girls tend to find the nearest gap in the queue and hide in that if at all.

I need to get out and meet some bikers/125ers. Im a lone bike/scootery person.

izzi81 · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Karma :

I'm a girl, I ride a Ninja zx6r (I'm 28, is that still a girl? are women always girls? I don't know Laughing

) I didn't ride when I was a teenager though, got my first bike (NSR125) when I was 23.

fazed · Korn is my hero! Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Karma :

my gf who is 18 rides a 98" cbr250rr ,she loves it ! Only downside is she uses my bike more than hers Neutral

as she can never be asked to fill up with petrol. Confused

hush · Scooby Slapper Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Karma :

Dup - for goodness sake, change your route man!!!

Izzi, much as I have been told off for it by some, all women are girls in my book... I don't like the term woman(women) nope, girls and guys.... And jealous of that bike - I wanted a Ninja (all beit a 9r)... never mind...

I've got my heart set on passing my test, getting an R1 (and an R6 for my fiancee), until such time as I can find an immaculate, low mileage older style ZZR1100 in pearl black Drooling

(Mind you, it'll be the R1 for everyday riding and the ZZR for Sunday/Special day riding...

Hex · Party Boy Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Bendy · Mrs Sensible Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Karma :

<insert selection of shortarsed nothern monkey jokes here> Razz

Sorry I just woke up and my brain hasn't finished booting. Smile

'Girl' is derogatory ONLY when blokes aren't referred to as boys. 'Men and girls' pisses me off. 'Boys and girls' - no problem.

Penny Coin

FWIW, when you're talking teenagers, yeah you don't see that many girls riding, but that could have something to do with the parents being more likely to encourage their son to ride than their daughter (and face it, when you're a teenager you *generally* need some form of parental support in order to own a bike) due to a whole number of reasons.
I didn't start riding until I was 21 and that was a scooter for practicality and cheapness, didn't get the big bike bug until I was 24.

Laura · Playboy Bunny Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Karma :

hush · Scooby Slapper Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Karma :

Hex, definately. I've had a major soft spot (or should that be hard Laughing

) since I first saw a ZZR1100 in Superbike, hmmm must have been the early 90s. Anyhow, it's almost a childhood dream - I'm just not prepared to be one of these mid-life crisis cases...

Hex · Party Boy Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

hush · Scooby Slapper Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Karma :

I figured I had to be at least old enough to legally ride something... Laughing

izzi81 · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Karma :

Hex · Party Boy Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Bendy · Mrs Sensible Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Karma :

I think a lot of girls don't realise how many other girls do actually ride, and get all worried about being the only girl when they go to do their CBT or whatever - which is completely illogical but does seem to be the case from what a few of my friends have said. Or they think that you have to be really strong to handle a bike or other irrational things like that. :S

Personally, the 'being the only girl' thing never bothered me in the slightest. And nor does dressing like a scruffbag, helmet hair or any of the other reasons you could think of that would put girls off bikes. Smile

Laura · Playboy Bunny Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Karma :

Jinx · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Karma :

I am a girl... not a teenager either but definitely a girl the last time I checked the bumps under the jumper!
Some of the people I ride with include Mel, Colleen, Brenda, Rita, second Mel, Jackie, ...... can't think of any more off hand, but at the bike nights I go to there are quite a lot of girlie bikers!
We are out there (something to do with the speed and the sexy leathers I think!) You just need to look harder!!
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Shark · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 11 Apr 2004 Karma :

well i'm not from the UK but here in SA we have a few lady riders,in PTA where i'm from loads of school girls have scooters,my ex has one,ill try and post a pic if i've still got anything of her.
not bikes thought,but about 6months ago i went on a breakfastrun,and there was a lady in full leathers riding a TL,what a babe,we heard that her actual bike was a 748,which her boyfriend rode on that day,but she pulled out drove infront of her group like the leader of the pack and just turned heads where she went.
now that proved to me that there is ladies who RIDE

swifty_mcvay · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 25 Apr 2004 Karma :

finally i saw a lady around 25-30 ( i guess Rolling Eyes

) in full leathers on a FZR i think it was..i mean she wasn't a teenager..but then maybe it was just me not paying enough attention or maybe its because the only time i'm actually on the road (for now and the next week) is in mum/familys cars ! ..maybe next week wen i ride around il see a few il keep you all posted Razz

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Craig_ · Trackday Trickster Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Karma :

*The shock of it!* Women riding bikes, you've seen them this cant be true, i mean its 2004, women still cook in the kitchen all day!

As Bendy said, hard to tell when wrapped up in leather, unless there wearing a very curvy set of leathers. Thumbs Up

But its no rarity anymore, theres a lot of women bikers these days.

Like on this forum, theres:

M (who likes to burn out clutches @ elvington Wink

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Bendy
Laura (Of course)
Annabella
Viper
MrsHippy
Izzy

And theres a lot more who i have forgotten, or cant be bothered to mention.
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fazed · Korn is my hero! Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Karma :

oh and i was taught how to ride a bike (carefully worded) by a women as well for my bike test etc Razz