Saudi Arabian women can ride bikes, sort of
April 3, 2013, 08:41
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: abaya, America's Gas Station, bicycle ban, bicycle smile, bicycling, cycling ban, desert cycling, KSA, MIA, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian oil consumption, this is largely our fault
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: abaya, America's Gas Station, bicycle ban, bicycle smile, bicycling, cycling ban, desert cycling, KSA, MIA, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian oil consumption, this is largely our fault
The kingdom’s religious police are now allowing women to ride bikes in parks and recreational areas.
However, they have to be accompanied by a male relative and dressed in the full Islamic head-to-toe abaya.
via Saudi Arabia lifts ban on women riding motorbikes and bicycles | Mail Online.
No cycling for transportation of course. Not in the Big Gas Station. A strange policy considering that every time somebody gets into a car in SA, it comes straight out of the profits of the princes.
I guess the Saudi religious police have never heard of ‘bicycle smile.’
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