Ladies and Bike Shops

Awesomely lady-friendly bike shops? They exist? Where?

Enid, female mechs are desperately needed in shops for us wimmin who are complete newbies/nervous about approaching said shops for advice/information etc. In the 4 shops close to where I live, I can only think of one that has a woman staff member. She's front of house, not a mech though.

I've not had any hostile experiences and I have to say my very local lbs has been good to me since I banged my way into their shop 5 years ago.

Ha, yeah I wish there were more! I've always found Brixton Cycles to be super friendly and helpful, and they've given me a lot of confidence to expect to be treated the same elsewhere.

There definitely needs to be more female mechanics, cos really, riding a bike a woman is very different to being a man on a bike in so many different ways. But like you say they usually end up front of shop. In fact the place commented on my dress said they wanted a mechanic but said I would mainly be a shop girl. Sigh.

That's bike yard east...and next on my hit list!