Dirtbike- women ?

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MTRIDER

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• Oct 4, 2001

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How many of you guys (or ladies if its your preference) would like to be involved or meet a female biker ? I know its kinna like having your cake and eating it too.....

 

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Yamaholley

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our whole family rides, and everyone else that I know that rides....their whole families ride as well.
I think this a BIG family sport....

 

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AnneBrooks

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I ride and am always looking for other women riders to ride with!! I ride with my Husband and all his friends. We have a few female riders, but they don't ride as often as I do. We need more!!

 

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I rode with a girl once, well, kinda just followed her around the track until I got sick of being roosted. So I passed her and haven't seen her at the track since. I only ever did see her one time, she was pretty good, didn't avoid any obstacles, better than me with technique. She rocked...

My gf is a sun baby and would NEVER set foot on a motorized anything (ok except for maybe a car). This kinda gets to me sometimes, but I realized that I need my own time with my own friends. So its worked out pretty good.

 

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Girls I've been with seem to consider dirtbiking some kind of male bonding ritual. Although I don't disagree, I would like to know a girl (or gf) who rides, preferably a little faster than me, just for practice.

As it is now, the trail rides I go on usually end with the guys having a few beers and swapping colorful stories... Then, shortly before dusk, the cell phones start ringing :silly: :). I wouldn't want that to change, but it would have to if there was a girl there :).

 

firecracker22

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• Oct 6, 2001

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So this is odd to hear . . . riding is a male bonding ritual? I thought the biggest argument against riding with women is not wanting to wait for them. Not that we're all slow but I am. Now what if the girls all went riding together and it was a female bonding ritual?

The other issue that pops up with male/female riders is jealous significant others. How many's wives/husbands/whatever would get jealous if they had a riding partner of the opposite sex?

 

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Burning a little mid night oil FC22?

man , women, child as long as they kinda keep up (not to tough with my spudly abilities.) is fine with me. wifey would blow a gasget if I had a female riding partner!

 

firecracker22

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SInce I began riding, I have had one and a half boyfriends who did not ride. The one didn't work out at all. He was no help in the pits at races, he continually told glory stories of riding his uncles 1979 Elsinore in the back yard when he was 12, and he hated it when I went riding instead of spending time with him. He got sent down the road. The one-half was a "half" because he raced snowmobiles, which is close. He would have gotten a bike, I think, had I continued to convince him to. That worked out a little better. He never got mad when I went riding without him since he did it to me plenty of times. We broke up for other reasons, such as me moving 300 miles away to get a new job.

Anyway, that's too bad that riding partners of the opposite sex can cause jealousy.

 

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Firecracker, I never thought of it that way. But to me, riding my bike with my buddies is nothing but male bonding. When else can I act like an ass, swear without being hit in the back of the head and get dirty without my gf being there :)

Hey, if woman go riding to bond with other woman then hey, why shouldn't they? Nothing different than I said above..

 

JuliusPleaser

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My ex was jealous of my bike :silly: ...and my car, and my truck, and my socks, and my happiness, and,....well, you get the idea. If there had been a woman in the equation, I would prolly be dead now.

I like women. A lot. A WHOLE lot. Other than Dirtweek, I've only ridden with a couple of women in my life. Angie was the most recent, and she rode very well. I'll ride with women anytime--just tell me where to go. :)

 

firecracker22

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So if you go riding with a girl AND a guy, is it male bonding or female bonding or . . . nevermind, I’ll drop that one. :p

I guess I’m too much of a guy myself. I have a dirty sense of humor and cuss and swear and joke around.

 

Jeff Gilbert

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I guess I don't share the same outlook.

Though I agree that riding is a bonding thing it's not just a male bonding thing for me. I ride mostly tracks and have become friends with a lot of good people, riders or not. There are a few girls that ride where I do and most of the time they have someone with them (ie parent, brother husband etc.) so it's more of a people bonding thing.

I'm a people person and enjoy my surrounding. The part I like about riding is most people are eager to be friendly and involves everyone, even if they aren't riding.

When I am playing in the band it's quite the opposite, though I've met a lot of intresting people there too. In the band situation my band mates and I have a bond between us that most do not understand unless they have been there but it doesn't allow for outside people as in dirtbiking. Seems that there is the band and the people that come to see the band. Often times I'll see competition from the patrons for the attention that the band gets, maybe it's because of the alcohol they consume, seems to go with being a musician.

 

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smb_katoomer

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• Oct 7, 2001

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i think dirt biking is looked upon as male bonding because, well, the female riders are few and far between. Personally, i wouldn't care if a man, woman or child waxed me, i would just try to keep up, and waiting on slower riders is never an issue because i know people have waited on me.
i am trying to teach my girlfriend to ride. she does pretty good considering she's never rode at all, and i would love to go riding with my best friend/girlfriend because just the experience of sharing what i love with her would be great. Plus if i could get her to ride, that means i could go riding much more often.

 

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When I was a kid in the 70's my whole extended family rode together; Aunts, uncles, cousins, bother, sister, Mom and Dad. It was a beautiful thing and definitely the best time period in my life. Now, I am the only one still actively riding. My sister and her husband want to restart the tradition with their two sons. As a kid I would brag about my moms moto skills to my friends, who’s mothers never rode.
I would love to be with a woman that rode dirt bikes and mt bikes with me. Just this morning I was having this same conversation with one of my best female friends. If my dream women rode better then me I would be stoked about it. I went to school with two girls that raced motocross and whipped up on me at the track, and I was just in awe with them, plus they were hot. I am envious of my friends who have wives and girl friends that ride.
The women that I tend to like are at least as, or more intelligent then me. I like being with people that are knowledgeable, as I have learned so much from such relationships. Ability is such a turn on; I cannot be with a person I don't respect as an equal. So, I guess like the old saying goes, I am looking for women just like Mom. :)

 

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• Oct 8, 2001

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Originally posted by KXaggerator
So, I guess like the old saying goes, I am looking for women just like Mom. :)

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THAT explains my son's current crush on the only little girl in class that rides - she races quads but at least she rides.

 

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Yamaholley

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• Oct 8, 2001

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Originally posted by firecracker22
So if you go riding with a girl AND a guy, is it male bonding or female bonding or . . . nevermind, I’ll drop that one. :p

I guess I’m too much of a guy myself. I have a dirty sense of humor and cuss and swear and joke around.

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you and me both! riding with me, is just like riding with the guys (cept I'm slower, and I cuss more!)
My b/f and I go riding with whomever we please, gender doesn't matter one bit. The only thing I don't do (or should I say, Haven't done) is go riding with just females. Part of that is that none of the ones I know will go without their partners....don't know why...but maybe part of it is lack of knowledge about trailside maintenence? Or having someone along that can haul your bike back up a cliff...I don't know....
Anyway, for us, dirt biking isn't any different than other activities in that both my boyfriend and I go to dinner, or movies, or anywhere else we feel like with our friends of the opposite sex...it's not a big deal