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Hi everyone!

Here's some info regarding the girl event Milkshake Series.

As last year, the event will gather girls from everywhere to ride and chill out together in sunny south of France. The dates: 26th-27th of August.

This year, the event will take place in Poussan, a friendly little park near Sete. It is supported by TAMTAMshop, etnies, Nikita, Jeevice, trauma and scORP. Also as partners Spade, Sunex, ex-templar (frenchys), twenty, ALK13, bmx up, cream and agoride, and of course Poussan city council and the general council.

BMX and skateboard comps are organised as well as some demos of rollerblades, streetboard...
As usual, the comp is merely an excuse to get together and have fun, there is no pressure and no level required, so even if you've just been starting up, you're more than welcome to join the fun. The idea is to support girls in their riding, to keep BMX open to everyone who wants to give it a try.

A jam will also be held on Saturday night for both guys and gals, so guys can bring not only their cheerleader pompoms, but also their bike, skateboard...

BMX wise, we are expecting about 15 riders from France, UK, Sweden, Finland..., hoping for more, but mainly in park.
In flatland, there is a basketball court onsite, very nice, very smooth, so perfect for riding. Hope to see some flatlanders coming over this year!

Free onsite camping for the entrants and some accomodation around for public.

Regarding transportation, please email us if you don't have any so we can sort things out: juliebmx@hotmail.com (mostly for French speaker) or cakebmx@hotmail.com (both French-English speaker)
Any questions, as before, feel free contact us.

Hope to see you there!

Caro

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^no it brings all the boys

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Joined: A long time ago...

^no it brings all the boys

Joined: A long time ago...

^no it brings all the boys

notice the question mark.


and i hafto say, i REALLY  wanna see a girl riding street or park. especially if shes hot and all tatted up and watnot. id get a half chubb in 2 seconds.

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where is the girl for bmx who can step it up to the mens level of riding?

i have yet to see a girl get beyond the basics of flatland, and have yet to see any girl riding street or trails.

I have seen a few amount of girls skateboarding get to a level where they can compete with AM guy riders ,let alone pro.

I have seen no pro girl snowboarders keep up with pro male riders.

Whats the fuss about girl riders?

show me something that proves me wrong if you wanna try and discredit this.

why do girls need to prove something? why can't you just accept we also like riding, whatever our level?
What do we care about how good others are? why when it comes to girl riding, level is so important?
why so little girls riding? maybe because each time we pick up a bike, we have to prove something to other.
How intolerant are you?
Do you also have high expectations to every of your mates, or every kids starting up?
What's wrong with you?

I just posted to give some info on an initiative we have, something to develop the feminine scene and the BMX scene in general: more girls riding, more BMX riders in general, and more variety...
VARIETY! this is what makes things interesting! why can't you tolerate people that are not as you, not same gender, not same level of riding, not the same point of view regarding riding and how they live it...

1 post for info on an event, 4 stupid irrelevant replies.
Many girls are skilled, not as good as guys, true, but think! Not same metabolism, this is a sport, physical, think about the difference of morphology and metabolism between the two genders.
Think as well that girl riding is only starting to developp while BMX has been around for a while, things are fresh for most of us.
Think also that the kind of comments received is not very supportive, many girls have already issues with their confidence when it comes to riding, because it's male-orientated sport, sometimes close-minded as you've just proved, and it can be difficult to find a place in it, because you have to PROVE you deserve it. I don't agree, if anyone is interested in bmx riding and pick up a bike to give it a try, then he/she deserves to be supported and doesn't have to prove anything.

Accept that we are different.

As for the "especially if shes hot and all tatted up and watnot"
so when you're not good-looking, then you don't really deserve to be supported either. Fucking society where image is so important when you're a girl...contradictory, when a girl is a bit too "good-looking", or too girly, then she cannot be a rider either.
Sad.

Yeah, this is feminism, because each time girls want to do something they enjoy and if this something has so far been reserved to guys, then we have to fight for being accepted as we are, we have always to prove something, as if riding wasn't hard enough to learn...don't you think you tend to make things even a bit harder for us?

Oh, and the "you" does not necessarily mean you in particular, it's for a general purpose of close-minded people like you.

And by the way, apart from sitting in front of your computer and asking girls to prove themselves while we are currently trying to do something for the BMX scene, what are YOU doing for it?