By Ellen Lapham Ellen Lapham, a female entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, CA. wrote this eMail to all her women friends and acquaintances. I thought our Girl Groove readers would really relate and appreciate her odyssey in search of the ultimate bike. She makes a lot of great points. We would love to start compiling a list of bike shops all over the country who get it, who know how to work with their female customers, who appreciate this growing group of riders. So, please drop me a quick eMail with all the pertinent information on your favorite bike shop and what they do to deserve to be on this special list.
Women entrepreneurs, too.
In late June, I picked up my size small Wylder Juliana bike the day before driving with boyfriend Lee to Ketchum, Idaho by way of north Lake Tahoe. I had ridden a demonstrator bike 6 weeks previous for about 4 hours in the Santa Cruz mountains, but this would be my virgin opportunity to put the first rock scratch and trail dust streaks on my very own high tech bike. First ride was an 18-mile jaunt through forest and boulders north of Truckee on the Emigrant Trail. Next step, the bucolic multi-use bike paths of the city of Ketchum. I will admit to fright on a steep gravelly downhill with sharp hairpins.