True stories from the life of a recovering asshole

November 8, 2011

canarycoal:

alexbaca:

I’ve lost two pairs of jeans to nearly a year of daily riding and I am fed the fuck up with the lack of technical-but-stylish cycling-focused gear for women. Outlier has been out of stock of their women’s daily riding pant in the size I need for almost as long as I’ve had my Jamis, and Levi’s does not appear to be extending their commuter styles to women’s cuts anytime soon.
Women on bikes are a pathetically underserved market. Our choices are spandex (and I refuse to wear spandex, because my cycling is transportation, not sport), or wiping chain grease on our probably-pretty-nice jeans that most certainly aren’t designed for ambling around on a bike.
I’ve thought seriously about starting a women’s cycling fashion product blog—not a cycle chic blog but, rather, a place where I find and review technical-but-normal-looking clothing and gear—but I’m just so disheartened by the true lack of options.
Sure, a lack of cycling-specific clothing for women is just some dumb fashion blogger bullshit whine, right? Except it’s not at all. Studies have shown that office dress codes can disincentivize biking to work for women, and I’m willing to bet that the repeated destruction of everyday clothing—which is not designed for riding—taps into a similar mindset. I just think it’s so, so stupid there are literally zero options for someone like me: a daily rider not subject to a dress code who’s fucking fed up with ripping out the crotches of her jeans. I’d pay good fucking money for appropriate clothing, but it doesn’t exist.
TL;DR female citizen cyclists are not taken as seriously as their male counterparts and if I started this blog would anyone read it?

yea i just buy super cheap jeans

Roll up your pant legs? Tuck your pants into socks? Buy some of those goofy pant-leg-fasteners that keep them in place? There’s a lot of options here you aren’t looking at…

alexbaca:

I’ve lost two pairs of jeans to nearly a year of daily riding and I am fed the fuck up with the lack of technical-but-stylish cycling-focused gear for women. Outlier has been out of stock of their women’s daily riding pant in the size I need for almost as long as I’ve had my Jamis, and Levi’s does not appear to be extending their commuter styles to women’s cuts anytime soon.

Women on bikes are a pathetically underserved market. Our choices are spandex (and I refuse to wear spandex, because my cycling is transportation, not sport), or wiping chain grease on our probably-pretty-nice jeans that most certainly aren’t designed for ambling around on a bike.

I’ve thought seriously about starting a women’s cycling fashion product blog—not a cycle chic blog but, rather, a place where I find and review technical-but-normal-looking clothing and gear—but I’m just so disheartened by the true lack of options.

Sure, a lack of cycling-specific clothing for women is just some dumb fashion blogger bullshit whine, right? Except it’s not at all. Studies have shown that office dress codes can disincentivize biking to work for women, and I’m willing to bet that the repeated destruction of everyday clothing—which is not designed for riding—taps into a similar mindset. I just think it’s so, so stupid there are literally zero options for someone like me: a daily rider not subject to a dress code who’s fucking fed up with ripping out the crotches of her jeans. I’d pay good fucking money for appropriate clothing, but it doesn’t exist.

TL;DR female citizen cyclists are not taken as seriously as their male counterparts and if I started this blog would anyone read it?

yea i just buy super cheap jeans

Roll up your pant legs? Tuck your pants into socks? Buy some of those goofy pant-leg-fasteners that keep them in place? There’s a lot of options here you aren’t looking at…

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