Riding a Bike in a Skirt

[derail3]

Here is a video on how to mount a mens style bike wearing a short skirt without flashing your panties.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mwlyWt7H7IA

[denimini]

Here is a video on how to mount a mens style bike wearing a short skirt without flashing your panties.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mwlyWt7H7IA

A similar action I resorted to after running over a snake which got caught up around the pedals - and was very angry.

[skirtingtoday]

Indeed denimini!

Hope the snake wasn't any of these ones! :- http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/ ... us-snakes/

[denimini]

Actually it was an Eastern Brown - hence why my feet were instinctively above the handlebars.
I have had a few close encounters with them in the house.

[hairy]

Why bother about it, if I can wear a mini skirt on a motorbike as I said on my other post, then why so much trouble on a push bike?
Still I expect the fuel tank on motorbike shields the skirt from too much breeze.

[johnb]

I tried riding in a knee length skirt yesterday, but found that the hem came up well above my knees. I'm currently trying to figure what would work.

John

[partlyscot]

Convenient that this thread came back around, I've been riding more places in a skirt. Normally just around the knee, the thin material tends to ride up to mid thigh when riding. The front edge tends to flip down between my legs, and I experimented with a mirror at the end of the garden. With a pair of bright briefs on under, I couldn't see any flashes as I rode towards the mirror. Still feels a bit exposed as I ride, though I'm fairly certain that to see anything you'd have be head near the kerb line as I rode past. I'm sure it looks, like I'm flashing or about to flash.

With the mirror again, I've found that getting on and off requires me to be a little slower. I had been swinging the leg across fast, but this was exactly the wrong thing. I need to deliberately bend my leg strongly at the knee, and bring the leg over the saddle with the bike at an angle. rushing that ends up with me staggering a bit, and could have me going down and flashing everything.

[Jim2]

I have bicycled a few times wearing a sportkilt hiking kilt, and felt it was no problem as the front stays down flat. I guess I could accidentally flash, but it hasn't happened - and I do wear underwear.

[skirted_in_SF]

I'm reminded why I'm a member here - there is lots of useful information just a quick search away. A week ago I bought my first bike in over 20 years and this afternoon was my first ride while wearing a skirt. The skirt I wore is about mid-calf length, fairly A-line in shape in a heavy cotton fabric that was called French Terry when I bought it. I found that between the usual afternoon wind here plus the air flow from riding, the skirt would blow up as high as the top of my knees. At first I tried to push it back down, but after awhile I realized I wasn't showing anything that I didn't want other than a bit more leg than I show when walking around. I may try a less full, knee length skirt for my next outing.
I bought what the vendor calls a 'Dutch Bike' or step through. This one: http://publicbikes.com/p/PUBLIC-C7i-201 ... le-reviews

[janrok]

Stuart, your bike is known here in the Netherlands as an "oma fiets" or Granny Bike.
They are very popular for their simplicity, ruggedness and affordability
http://omafiets.nl/omafiets-nl-omafiets-28-inch-zwart


Jan.

[Couya]

If anyone knows about bikes, it's the Dutch -- they live on them, in spite of the dreadful weather!
I never saw anyone there riding in a skirt (I should say, never saw any men riding in skirts. In those days women still wore skirts whatever they were doing -- 50 years ago now, I was living in den Haag), but in the last 15 years cycling has been my favored form of transport, and of course, I have been skirted. I have never tried anything longer than knee-length, and prefer shorter skirts with no excess cloth to blow about.
I remember when I used to ride in a kilt (saddle high, so that the pleats would not touch the back wheel), I was very self-conscious when I showed more thigh than when I was walking; how daft !!!. Now I don't care, and for cycling, wear things shorter than I would when walking.

Martin

[crfriend]

If one is worried about getting his skirt caught in the rear wheel, or in the chain, there are things called skirt guards (as well as chain guards) to keep that from happening. Some are bare engineering works of sheet metal, but others are very artistic pieces of crochet work that apparently function just as well.

The Instructables site has a couple of articles on how to fashion skirt guards from stuff you may have lying around.

[pelmut]

Stuart, your bike is known here in the Netherlands as an "oma fiets" or Granny Bike.
They are very popular for their simplicity, ruggedness and affordability
http://omafiets.nl/omafiets-nl-omafiets-28-inch-zwart
Jan.

They don't seem to have any brakes. Is this an unfortunate trick of the photography, or does it tell us something about the priority given to bikes in the Netherlands?

[Reaper_Man]

They don't seem to have any brakes. Is this an unfortunate trick of the photography, or does it tell us something about the priority given to bikes in the Netherlands?

Looks to me like one of the old style bikes from many years ago, they were called Fixed Wheels because unlike most modern bikes the rear wheel chain sprocket does not have a ratchet system that would allow the wheel to keep rotating when the rider stops pedaling, these fixed wheel bikes are not designed for speed (low gear ratios) and so no brakes are needed as in order to stop the bike you simply stop pedaling

[skirtingtoday]

I occasionally have worn a skirt on a bike - up to 3 years ago - and wore a 17" khaki cargo skirt with short splits at the sides.

I didn't think there was any exposure to worry about with this length as I had previously tried some 12" skirts (which was worrying to say the least! )

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