Obelix@feddit.org to Bicycling@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoThe Picture of Free, Untrammeled Womanhood - How the bicycle liberated womenworldhistory.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down10
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minus-squareShowroom7561@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoI love how they basically wore parachutes on their bikes back then, but they still enjoyed the hell out of the ride!
minus-squarepet1t@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoImagine the bike snobs back in the day: “this corset saves 3 watts!” “fellas, do you wear your monocle chain over or under your bowtie?”
minus-squareShowroom7561@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months ago“Aero top hats were 16” tall." 😂
minus-squareObelix@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoJust imagine how people back then would be thinking about women riding in lycra
minus-squareShowroom7561@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThey’d lose their minds. 😂 Even women riding as they were must have pissed off so many people back then.
I love how they basically wore parachutes on their bikes back then, but they still enjoyed the hell out of the ride!
Imagine the bike snobs back in the day: “this corset saves 3 watts!” “fellas, do you wear your monocle chain over or under your bowtie?”
“Aero top hats were 16” tall." 😂
Just imagine how people back then would be thinking about women riding in lycra
They’d lose their minds. 😂 Even women riding as they were must have pissed off so many people back then.