According to the poll, just 12% of low-income women possessed a vehicle, yet 34% owned a bicycle! While 35% said that the journey would be too long on a bicycle, more than 65% indicated that they lived within biking distance (10 miles or less roundtrip). It's worth noting that, although the 39-question survey was designed largely to elicit information on low-income women's hurdles to biking, it found more similarities than differences across women of all income levels. We've always made wild assumptions about why so few women biked, so with the backing of a Women's Foundation grant and the assistance of David Binder Research, we conducted the first-ever transportation research study concentrating only on women and bicycles. SFBC volunteers conducted a field intercept survey of 416 randomly selected women with the purpose of determining why women ride bikes at a much lower rate than males.
