When buying a bike mag, like the new adventure mag that everyone seem to be talking about in the HUBB lately (yes I bought one!
) :
The writers are middle aged white blokes, females assumed to be only pillions (small box for one), or wives patiently waiting the hubby at home, assumed knitting? Obviously all (the said husbands) are usually on massive tall BMWs...
Obviously the clothes tested are only for blokes (Am I supposed to ride my bike around the world wearing a bikini or wearing some of the black leather bondage gear so popular in men's and bikes' mags where a chick is actually astrid a bike, usually in a very suggestive pose?- I wonder, where is the lad half naked then to compensate? )
No female role model... there are plenty of inspiring ladies out there though, I met many on the road or at the HUBB, why do we seem to not exist at all? Why none are writing in bike mags? Clothes, bikes, mags, it' all about the boys...
And as Charlotte said, the bikes and trip was MY IDEA on my side too!!! But people assume I'm just there to follow!
Time to get a voice. Go get them Lois! You should get a column on bikes mags. I would buy them more often if there was someone I can relate to.
As they stand, I am not interested on reading:
either about speed and thoughts (if such!) of some young lads testing bikes,
or,
about some old fart bloke (with receding hair line and bulging
belly) trying the latest BMW 152000000 GS model around France and how his wife at home is pissed off that he's gone again on an "Adventure!"! And that old fart will never get the balls to get on a bike and go round the world in the first place!
Am I getting a bit bichy here
?
Cheers,
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