good point ed
just been a week MTB'ing in Spain and one of the girls on that trip was a fecking good biker - up, down or flat, she was strong and also technically very good. she rode a very good Giant MTB but tricked out in pink bits (brake levers, disk blocks, saddle etc) and when I asked her why she said it was because too many people thought she rode like a bloke (she was a roadie as well) so it was her little way of showing she was a girl. I did point out that she had tits and looked like a girl - albeit no oil painting imho - but it was just her way of stating it.
as they say - whatever floats the boat....