Latina bicyclists answer macho bike culture with their own chain gang
By Denise Florez, Los Angeles Times
Growing up, Evelyn Martinez’s mother didn’t want her to ride a bike.
“She thinks it’s not safe for women to be riding late at night, and cars are dangerous too,” Martinez said.
Moreover, her mother told her: “Bicycles are for men.”
But after a chance meeting last year, Martinez joined an all-female, predominantly Latino cycling group that is both an answer and a challenge to the aggressive male biking culture. Like men’s bike crews, it defies L.A.’s monolithic car culture with an in-your-face ethic, reflected in its name: the Ovarian Psyco Cycles Brigade.
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