Date: 2022/12/01 - Itchy is the mouse - Themes: bicycle, words-ism, opinions

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in the ground

Let's talk about some itchy softspot of bicycle world a little bit, i'm currently in a phase of looking out for a unpaid internship. All the thing i don't wanted to see are becoming more and more visible. Like some kind of culture in bicycle shops, workshop. That said i don't care about bicycle bros circlejerk and i don't try to be one of them.

repartition

First of all. I spend a lot of time in a bike workshop, and because the world is really huge i always allow myself that what i know can be wrong and will gladly update what i know about various subjects.
Since the begining i saw mostly utilitarian kind of cyclists and by this status i assume, utilitarian cyclists are the main customers of bicycle collectives. ut-cyclists are mostly men but it's maybe a 60/40 and growing numbers on the other side of balance.

Shops have a more unfair balance of repartition, i don't know all the reason about it but i assume it's because the current state of the population and repartition in sport. Less women there, less women represented in shops and stuff. AND THATS IT. I don't have other any thoughts about it.

In frame building shop. it's the same, because of history i guess???? And since it change even slowly.

the itch

I getting tired of the current state of all of it. I need to see more normal people "not sport cycling hyperbros" I need to see normal bicycle enthusiasts. and i need to see weird bikes framebuilders and female ones. and also framebuilders not interrested in perfomance bikes, classic road diamond frames. pls i need to see the fun of framebuilding pls. where are the fun ones?

Ending

That said. i also getting tired of Tour de France fans but i don't mind them. i quite having fun trolling them by give them that amazing bullshit stat that Utilitarian cyclist are doing as much as any TdF cyclist IN ONE YEAR. I mean, us people don't have the money and sponsors to always bicycle in clean road and traveling to sunny places in winter to keep training. So kudos to all of us. i'm not sure if all of them will survive a year of cohabitation with angry drivers, with traffic lights, with the full winter weather.

That's it. i'm less tired of all of it now