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i don't retract my post though, i'm hardly bothered by someone's opinion on some admittedly pretty cheesy comments in a video or their "post-ironic" thoughts on fixed gear and the people who ride it and enjoy it (as if it's homologous!). i genuinely really enjoy organising fun little things and i also don't expect bros to understand what it's like to be a female rider in this city. i'm also DEFINITELY not trying to speak for other female riders, just for myself. like i said at the end, if people think it's lame, whatever! newsflash: people disagreeing on forum and talking shit about dissenting opinions, oh no :'(

hahahaha

sure this video must have done the rounds by now but it's short (under ten mins) and the last two minutes really sum up a lot of my feels about riding with other rad ladies:

http://www.itchy-themovement.com/fixed-on-fixed/

ITCHY was born out of our love of fixed gear track bikes, nature and culture.
Also from a grim evidence of male hegemony in the bicycle world which makes
it difficult for girls to have visibility and acquire social value as cyclists
despite there having been some very great female representatives of the sport.
Besides generating multimedia knowledge ITCHY want to create a global team with
a focus on women who ride in fixed gear. With the intention of organizing local
events and also on a larger more ambitious scale to once a year organize a mass
meeting somewhere in the world to ride a long route together and have lots of fun!
Although we have a specific focus on female fixed gear cyclists we also welcome
all female cycling enthusiasts even if you ride with gears, singlespeed, BMX etc.
Virginia and Melissa (sanso) x

i run the risk of sounding like a soppy git but all the women i've met in london through riding fixed have been vivacious, intelligent, super cool and genuinely really nice people. videos like this remind me of why i love organising fun things to do and ride bikes and why i'm so happy when i meet other women who love it too.

i know the video's been around for a bit but i wanted to centralise discussion of organising something regular and fun/motivational, both to progress our own skills and bike handling and city riding, and also to encourage more women to cycle. nothing mega, and nothing onerous, just whatever people want to do, like the ladies have been doing with the "DO ALL THE THINGS" initiative; i've benefited so much already for our rad excursions! @mands mentioned a regular ride she was interested in?

i'm also not forcing anyone to join in if you think it's lame, haha. whatever you're comfortable with - i just want to ride moar bikes and enjoy the friendship that comes out of it!

sorry to herp a derp - are we doing drinks on the first thursday and the 17th or just the latter?

@T4NY4 and rob on camberwell road, wanted to DAS but was in full buswanka mode so just pawed at the window from the upper deck as you went past. HAI

after a convo with @Cazakstan and others about how rad @Sam_Dunn (her website's here) is i was talking to her yesterday and wondered how many ladies would be interested in a forum ladies' winter jersey? it seems from the comments above that the yasi design is for a tee which we customise which is also ace. i'm mad keen on a jersey as well so let me know, happy to coordinate!

also sam just started racing for VCL and she and @Danifej did their first races last week, 25mph average and 50 lap scratch races! HARD LASSES REP

going to have to respectfully bail on this as i now have stuff to finish before heading to the pub for 7 - if you aren't all pooped by the time you head home, please swing by the captain kidd for cake and beers! gutted to be missing mini golf and amazing pizza.

1. Dr Cake
   
2. mands
   
3. cafewanda
   
4. pops
   
5. lucyh
   

if the weather is absolutely terrible i will probably adjourn to a pub for birthday chips and shandies. ain't nobody got time for being soggy on their birthday #notaeuph

i did love it.

smashing

sweet, thanks kev. only question would be if there was any srs damage from polo,i only remember you saying the front wheel had taken a couple of dings, but everything else was fine. still interested, cheers!

super night! i'm excited for bday mini golfing next weekend and xmas party plus anything else we do, happy to help organise.

special mention to nicola's accent (intrigued to know how many ways, in fact, there ARE to do that thing) and @ecunard HTFUing to join us >^.^<

also thx for allowing birthday interloper #lfgssladiesandsomeothers (sorry @clefty for making you sit through the painful ripping up of sandman #17)

@Chung and i have had plenty of chats going over waterloo & london bridges, traffic or no! do it

ya!

idk how to embed video so bear with me while i try and illustrate:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/-D4UKEa7B8A

track cyclists sit static up the camber of the velodrome (right foot forward) - but as i said, if you're using it to avoid unclipping at lights rather than a sprint tactic, it ain't no thang to do whatever feels most comfortable for you

ambidextrous trackstanding is easier than ambidextrous skidding, for me at least - once you build up your core strength enough trackstanding on either side is fairly straightforward though you might have a preference. just depends how hard you push yourself to stay ambidextrous in the learning phase!

really doesn't matter

*realises there may be a sudden influx of corrective forum responses on this from people who spend more time on the forum than they do working *

this can be arranged! technically i trackstand US/non velodrome standard by preference (forever awkward leg dominance) but can teach you how to do it both ways. if you're mostly only going to be doing it on the road it really doesn't matter

same, probably between 6/6:30. see you later!

who did i DAS on the north side of burgess park earlier? think you were on a dolan. very obliging skid, cheers

also @xkittyx what are you riding tonight?

meet us from half 8 if you can so we have time to do everyone! i will make sure it definitely looks like corpse paint ride and not juggalo dress up night.

will probably bring doughnuts. chung i can't tell what's on your bike but YAY

"commute"? don't you work from your sofa?

did you go to this in the end? never seen celeste live, gutted!

i stopped putting out records a couple of years ago but i recently put out a 7" of my friend's band now that i've firmly graduated into an old lady who listens to nothing but boring instrumental music - if you like this too (there's not a post-rock thread but w/e close enough to hardcore & punk rite) and you want a listen you can find it through here

sweet, thanks!

found some lols searching for the last corpse paint ride

"ladies love my ding"