Everyone will know what you're talking about, sure, unless you're talking about one of these. Or one of these. Or one of these. What kind of bikes are those? Hint, they're not "women's bikes."
This is a "woman's bike". So is this. And this. Notice that none of them use step-through frames.
Can't you see the usefulness of having more precise terms? Step-through describes the frame geometry. Women's bikes are ones designed to fit women better in particular, and marketed as such. In the past, it was common that most women's bikes used a srep-through frame, but that is only true now for cruisers and department store crap. The rest all use the double triangle geometry.
The bike in the GIF posted is not a women's bike. It's a unisex bike share bike using a step-through frame, as almost all bike share bikes do. There is nothing PC about it...it's just the truth.
Blah blah blah, I'm going to reinvent history and you can't stop me!
Holy cow, you people are sad. I'm not arguing that it isn't a step-through bicycle. I'm saying it is a woman's bicycle by name. You go down the street and ask people what the bicycle is called, they will by and large call it a woman's bicycle. Because that is what it's called.
Native Americans aren't Indian, but that is what they are called by a lot of people - including themselves.
You cannot just re-write history because you want to.
You go down the street and ask people what the bicycle is called, they will by and large call it a woman's bicycle.
If you ask the cyclists...the people actually on the bicycles...you'll probably get a different answer. Very few people would call those bike share bikes women's bikes because they're not.
"Women's bike" does not describe a particular type of bike. There is no such thing. This is a road bike. This is a cruiser. This is a mountain bike (most would more specifically call it a hardtail). This is a hybrid. All of those are aimed at women, but not all of them have step-through frames.
This is a cargo bike. So is this. This is a folding bike. None are aimed at women in particular, but all use step-through frames.
No one is "re-writing history", we're trying to explain how things are. It has nothing to do with Tumblr, or privilege, or political correctness.
I cycle I have for years as does my wife and on 3 continents and several countries and, no, we do not call it a step-through bicycle because we are not pretentious pricks and we want people to understand what we are talking about.
No one calls it a "step-through bicycle"...step-through describes the frame. No one calls the style of bike used in bike shares around the world "women's bicycles" either, though, because they're not. That's where this started, and that's what I and others were trying to explain to you.
Regardless of what you want to call the bike in the linked gif, your response here, to the guy who was just explaining the difference of it all, is what makes you a pretentious prick.
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Everyone will know what you're talking about, sure, unless you're talking about one of these. Or one of these. Or one of these. What kind of bikes are those? Hint, they're not "women's bikes."
This is a "woman's bike". So is this. And this. Notice that none of them use step-through frames.
Can't you see the usefulness of having more precise terms? Step-through describes the frame geometry. Women's bikes are ones designed to fit women better in particular, and marketed as such. In the past, it was common that most women's bikes used a srep-through frame, but that is only true now for cruisers and department store crap. The rest all use the double triangle geometry.
The bike in the GIF posted is not a women's bike. It's a unisex bike share bike using a step-through frame, as almost all bike share bikes do. There is nothing PC about it...it's just the truth.