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i started this thread because it was a daily occurrence and i knew it happened to other ladies as well. i don't wear particularly revealing or saucy clothes, i don't bat my eyelashes at men in ven or titter at their disgusting remarks (nb - absolutely no excuse at all for their behaviour, but some people have this awfully shortsighted opinion that women somehow "ask for it" where "it" is any kind of gross remark/behaviour) - i am a bog standard girl in jeans and a jumper waiting at the lights. i just wanted to ride my bike. but my commute was always, always subject to this input.
i've had a lot of time off the bike, but last week i rode from home to the train station for the first time in a few months. i got (i kid you not!) fifty metres and i got a wolf whistle from some builders.
weird observation - it NEVER happens on the brompton. only on traditional looking bikes. maybe the brompton looks dowdy?!