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cQiVQImW comentou em 11/03/2012 06:03:07:
Interesting response to Elly's post. However the cotracaerizatihn of bicycling as rich yuppie types in the U.S., I think is overstated by many. Income class status of cyclists is roughly pretty evenly split from studies I have seen. Sure there are rich yuppie types riding, but more often I see those folks driving a Prius. In Santa Monica California where I'm at, I see just as many day laborers on beater used mountain bikes as I do roadies on $3000 bikes, and everything in-between.I think the bigger economic hurdle, that translates into gender disparity, is the lack of conveniently close services needed for day to day life in many areas in the U.S., and the tendency for women to be saddled with a lot of the errand running and trip chaining that is more difficult by bike when services are not close. This seems to be supported in Tom Vanderbilt's book Traffic, which looks at driving behavior in America, and points out woman make more varieties of smaller and more frequent car trips than men. By economy I do not view that to mean just literal money with which to buy a bike, but time value, and how much unpaid work women do that costs time.

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