Lady KBers - do you think you are more blokey in traits if you ride?

**buellbabe** · 11th June 2007, 07:42

One thing that has become apparent from reading this thread is that us 'ladies/girls/women' who ride bikes ARE different to the average female.
Whether we are total tomboys or girly-girls there is something that sets us apart from women who don't ride...
I don't know what it is...I can't explain my all consuming passion for my bike and riding it...
But I am happy to be a part of the greater motorcycling community who accept me for who I am!

**surfchick** · 11th June 2007, 17:42

need for speed baby!
seperates us from the male & female mossbacks
i grow moss sometimes teaching...and being an amoeba behind a desk all week...so that's what the bike is for...and the surfboard...and the snowboard...to kind of shake off all the krusty slowness of the week

amoeba

amoeba
amoeba

then after a bike ride become:

**Stella** · 11th June 2007, 19:34

I am fairly girly, but also fairly not as well. I love dressing up, true I am a trousers girl, but love accessories. Love doing 'boy' things, am very practical and VERY proud of my tool box

Once I sat down and thought of what traits the 'woman I want to be' would have. It was an interesting 50/50 split of supposedly male/female traits.

I do love the idea that is surprises people that I am a girl biker (albeit newbie biker) but it PISSES ME OFF when people think I mean SCOOTER when I say MOTORCYCLE

and when they say "oh, well, you be careful now, won't you?". They so wouldn't say it if I had a y-chromosome.

Oh.... and I have decided I lean more towards girls

than boys.... just I am too girly to be properly a dyke on a bike!!

**KATWYN** · 11th June 2007, 20:09

Has this thread digressed to "coming outa the closet" confessions now?

**Stella** · 11th June 2007, 20:12

There was a closet?!?!?!

I think I have heard about this place..... sounds far too dark and scary. I never went in there ;P

**KATWYN** · 11th June 2007, 20:33

Originally Posted by Stella

There was a closet?!?!?!

I think I have heard about this place..... sounds far too dark and scary. I never went in there ;P

My closet doesn't even have doors on it. ...and its stuffed full of shoes, clothes & bags

**Chickadee** · 11th June 2007, 23:12

As Stella was saying, I'm sure we get judged by non-bikers frequently being chicks on bikes. Ooh you ride, you be careful out there. I'd love to know what pops into their little pea brains when they see girls riding bikes.

Loved the previous girly ride - when there were around 20 of us out West and had stopped - lots of people looking as they drove past, and guys on bikes out for a ride too..... looking, and double taking - 'shit they're all girls'.

I think the difference with us ladies is we live & enjoy life - we don't just exist in a stereotypical fashion.

**buellbabe** · 12th June 2007, 06:50

Originally Posted by KATWYN

My closet doesn't even have doors on it. ...and its stuffed full of shoes, clothes & bags

Ditto! 'cept mine are chocka of clothes,shoes and boots...lots of boots! I use every closet in my house! And one is totally devoted to bike jackets

**KATWYN** · 12th June 2007, 08:46

Originally Posted by buellbabe

Ditto! 'cept mine are chocka of clothes,shoes and boots...lots of boots!

Oh oh oh boots...! don't get me started on boots

Are there any biker girls that don't lurve boots?? I bet there aren't any.

**Reckless** · 12th June 2007, 10:10

Originally Posted by buellbabe

One thing that has become apparent from reading this thread is that us 'ladies/girls/women' who ride bikes ARE different to the average female.
Whether we are total tomboys or girly-girls there is something that sets us apart from women who don't ride...
I don't know what it is...I can't explain my all consuming passion for my bike and riding it...
But I am happy to be a part of the greater motorcycling community who accept me for who I am!

Exactly the same for a bloke who rides!! Can't see why any of the above are a problem for a girl. Its what we guys are proud of and what gives us lifes personal indentity. Don't forget even as guys and bikers we are in the minority as well and thank god for that.

Originally Posted by Chickadee

As Stella was saying, I'm sure we get judged by non-bikers frequently being chicks on bikes. Ooh you ride, you be careful out there. I'd love to know what pops into their little pea brains when they see girls riding bikes.

I think the difference with us ladies is we live & enjoy life - we don't just exist in a stereotypical fashion.

Ladies, I cold simply swap the words Ladies & chicks to the word blokes in both quotes above and there would be no difference. We all have the 'need for speed' and less 'passion for fashion'. So I hope you girls are not impying you feel different from other bikers, just the other girls and girly pressures. Cause us biker blokes are a bit different than the normal old boring jo blo, and we love it!! Welcome to the club!

**007XX** · 12th June 2007, 21:57

Originally Posted by KATWYN

Oh oh oh boots...! don't get me started on boots

Are there any biker girls that don't lurve boots?? I bet there aren't any.

Mmmmm...Oh yeah! I just bought a new pair, no later than this arvo. To the last count, this must be pair number 12...but who's counting?????

**007XX** · 12th June 2007, 22:06

Originally Posted by Reckless

Exactly the same for a bloke who rides!! Can't see why any of the above are a problem for a girl. Its what we guys are proud of and what gives us lifes personal indentity. Don't forget even as guys and bikers we are in the minority as well and thank god for that.

Ladies, I cold simply swap the words Ladies & chicks to the word blokes in both quotes above and there would be no difference. We all have the 'need for speed' and less 'passion for fashion'. So I hope you girls are not impying you feel different from other bikers, just the other girls and girly pressures. Cause us biker blokes are a bit different than the normal old boring jo blo, and we love it!! Welcome to the club!

Sorry Reckless, but I think you may have slightly misunderstood the subject of this thread: it is about us girl riders in comparison to other more "stereotypical", average chicks... Not about the differences between the men and women riders.

And it doesn't give us any problem. If anything, we are very proud of being different from the average and embrace these differences as they make us more alive.

Ladies ...Feel free to correct me if I got this one wrong! I obviously do not pretend to speak for all of us.

**buellbabe** · 13th June 2007, 06:56

Yes you got that right

Originally Posted by 007XX

Mmmmm...Oh yeah! I just bought a new pair, no later than this arvo. To the last count, this must be pair number 12...but who's counting?????

My boot collection (LOL)
2 pairs of stilletto boots at work
Another 3 at home
3 pairs of cowboy boots
2 pairs of platforms

4 pairs awaiting heel and sole repairs

and just purchased some Dionese ladies riding boots

mmm.... boots...

**KATWYN** · 13th June 2007, 08:30

Originally Posted by buellbabe

Yes you got that right

My boot collection (LOL)
2 pairs of stilletto boots at work
Another 3 at home
3 pairs of cowboy boots
2 pairs of platforms

4 pairs awaiting heel and sole repairs

and just purchased some Dionese ladies riding boots

mmm.... boots...

For anyone that has a thing for boots they have to see that movie "kinky boots" (don't get put off by the title - tis not as bad as it sounds). After watching it the first thing you want to do is buy some boots. The film is based on the true story of a little shoe shop in conservative South Hampton,that used to make boring old mens brown loafers, the company got into trouble financially (surprise surprise) then the owner found a niche market.....boots....but not just ANY kinda boots - with special emphasis on the heels of these boots. It was filmed in real shoe factories and made the relationship between a boring old peice of leather, cotton, industrial sewing machine and the sewer look like an artistic masterpiece.

Sorry back on topic for me

**007XX** · 13th June 2007, 08:35

Originally Posted by KATWYN

For anyone that has a thing for boots they have to see that movie "kinky boots" (don't get put off by the title - tis not as bad as it sounds). After watching it the first thing you want to do is buy some boots. The film is based on the true story of a little shoe shop in conservative South Hampton,that used to make boring old mens brown loafers, the company got into trouble financially (surprise surprise) then the owner found a niche market.....boots....but not just ANY kinda boots - with special emphasis on the heels of these boots. It was filmed in real shoe factories and made the relationship between a boring old peice of leather, cotton, industrial sewing machine and the sewer look like an artistic masterpiece.

Sorry back on topic for me

Sounds awesome...what really worries me is the part where you reckon that after seeing the movie, we'd want to buy more boots.

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