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\"2015-11-25<\/a>Women won’t cycle.\u00a0 Or women women won’t cycle enough, that is the finding from a sustrans<\/a> survey this week.\u00a0 The survey was carried out in a number of British cites including Edinburgh.\u00a0 12% 0f women cycle at least once compared to 24% of men.\u00a0 As it happens I know a a number of these women and I’m married to one and the father of another!\u00a0 Funnily enough two of them turned up to our church homegroup on bikes last night.\u00a0 One had fallen off the day before as well.<\/p>\n

The reasons why women don’t cycle are very obvious.\u00a0 Safety.\u00a0 From cars rather than attacks.\u00a0 These latter incidents are rare I’ve been chased three times in 30 years (once by another cyclist since I overtook him – he clearly had mental problems).\u00a0 All three times I easily outpaced my pursuers.<\/p>\n

No the real problems are cars not people per say.\u00a0 Its not hair although there was a tendency a few years ago for most female cyclists I saw not to wear helmets, which I think must be the hair issue.\u00a0 This has changed and fortunately almost all cyclists in Edinburgh wear helmets (including all the ones I know).\u00a0 When I cycled to Paris for the Climate Conference a good proportion of us were female and they knew what they were doing and did not need any help from us men, which is as it should be.<\/p>\n

\"Day<\/a>Its clear if we have more segregated cycle lanes more people will cycle including more women.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Women won’t cycle.\u00a0 Or women women won’t cycle enough, that is the finding from a sustrans survey this week.\u00a0 The survey was carried out in a number of British cites including Edinburgh.\u00a0 12% 0f women cycle at least once compared … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week","category-practical-low-carbon-living"],"yoast_head":"\nOne thing we have learnt this week - women won't cycle - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8094\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8094\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8094\",\"name\":\"One thing we have learnt this week - 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