To the ladies, have you ever tried mounting a bike with a pencil skirt before and your skirt just went like, "prrrrrrrr...."? I tell you, it is usually such an embarrassment!
To guide against this, here are few tips that will help you:
1. If you'd be up and down on a bike during the day and you must wear skirt, please don't make it a pencil, fitted skirt. A flare skirt is always a better option, or better still, a carribean, long skirt.
2. Choose a bike that is low, otherwise you'd really have to raise up your legs before you can mount.
3. Irrespective of the kind of skirt you wear, always mount a bike from your left hand side. It protects you against the hot silencer.
4.If there is a pedestrial walk-way on the road, do mount from the walk-way, it'd give you height advantage as you wouldn't have to raise your legs too high to get on the bike.
5. This is how to climb: Stand beside the bike and raise your right leg gently over the passenger seat of the bike. If you raise it abruptly, your skirt will most likely get torn. Also, if your skirt is not too short, you can raise it up a little. Sit comfortably and then adjust your legs better on the footrest.
6. In climbing: Don't raise up your legs so high; else your underwear will be all out in the open for public glare.
7. An alternative way to climb: If your bike has a good foothold that is still firmly placed, you can climb just the left foothold with your left leg (this raises you up already) and then, holding the bike man by the shoulder (hehehe), you can then put your right leg on the right foothold. This is usually a lot easier.
8. Once you are on the bike, standing with both of your legs on the footrests to draw down your skirt before sitting again will ensure that your skirt covers your laps through the ride.
9. Better still, you can arm yourself with a scarf to cover whatever it is you are not comfortable with.
10. In alighting, never forget to request that the bikeman bends the bike, so you simply put your left foot down and raise your right leg gently from the bike.
So, you don't have to worry about your skirt anymore when you have to take a bike. Plus, I forgot to add...a skirt ride is better as a ride for one and not for two!
