Originally Posted by
Baby Puke
This is an interesting topic. Why is cycling so dude-centric? It's certainly a bummer. I'm a guy who hated the typical dude sports in high school (football, hockey, baseball), and cycling to me was very opposite of those sports. But there are so few women who participate in competition. Why is that?
I would guess that it's largely a historical issue. Cycling isn't the greatest at promoting itself at the lower echelons of the sport, so it tends to be word of mouth...so if it's largely populated by men then by and large it tended to follow in the same vein.
I see this myself as someone who has only picked up a bike in the past 2-3 years having been totally unaware of the cycling clubs that surrounded me until almost in my 30's.
(Aside from roaming the streets on a mtb as a kid)
Happily, it seems this is changing somewhat, in Scotland at least. From my anecdotal evidence it looks a far more even balance these days in the young kids picking it up, especially around the velodrome and the track racing scene.