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  • Pardon my intrusion, but I asked this question on the any question answered forum and received only one response.

    This question follows on from the ( not entirely serious ) comments regarding the lack of forum females recently made on the moderator request thread.

    I know there are lots of girls/women/ladies on the forum, yet so few of you appear to post in current projects. The main one that comes to mind is LongAndWinding's beautiful Demon Frameworks project. http://www.lfgss.com/thread77424.html , but that was ages ago.

    I'm quite happy to be proved wrong. I might simply not notice, especially as gender isn't immediately obvious from a username or avatar. This thread about ladies bikes has had only seven pages worth in nearly three years. http://www.lfgss.com/thread46170.html

    Why? Tinkering with bike parts isn't an exclusively male preoccupation by any means. I once met a lady in real life and she told me so.

    Anyone?

    I've never really taken on a project tbh - although my Charge Plug became something of a Triggers Broom as I changed the wheels, crankset, bars, brakes etc but under guidance.

    I don't have the mechanical know-how to do the things I would need to in order to put together my own bike. I fear I would get laughed out of CP if I started a thread where I changed my saddle/seatpost/bars/stem/wheels/pedals.

    Which brings me onto raising something I've been pondering for a while - would any of the LFGSS Ladies want to learn some practical skills - like wheelbuilding or bike building? Have tentatively sounded our London Bike Kitchen who like the idea - how many here would be interested?

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