Meet the trailblazers: The female bike mechanics
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Meet Sharvari, Belinda and Brenna, three female bike mechanics from different corners of the world. From setting up a female run workshop in India, teaching skills to other women, or working within elite sport: these three are all making a living in the male dominated world of bike mechanics. Hear their stories and find out what happened when we got them all talking to each other.
Presenter/producer: Lexy O'Connor
(Photo: Bicycle mechanic Belinda Everett, Credit: Ryan Goff, #rygoff)
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| 0:00.0 | You know that? |
| 0:04.3 | Very cool. |
| 0:05.1 | I really like ratchet spanners. |
| 0:06.6 | They make life much easier. |
| 0:09.2 | There is a reason I'm hunched over a bicycle on a cold and windy morning. |
| 0:14.1 | Talking about spanners or wrenches if you're in the United States. |
| 0:18.1 | You know what this is called? |
| 0:19.8 | Oh yeah, these are, I'm going to get the name wrong. |
| 0:22.3 | They help you get your tire off the rim. |
| 0:23.9 | Perfect. |
| 0:24.4 | Tire levers and I love the fact that they are fluorescent pink. |
| 0:28.3 | Hello, I'm Lexi O'Connor and today on Business Daily we're looking at cycling. |
| 0:33.7 | Or more specifically, the mechanics who fix our bikes. |
| 0:37.8 | I want to know why so few of them are women. |
| 0:41.5 | We'll hear the stories of three intrepid female bike mechanics from India, the United States and the UK. |
| 0:48.7 | And we'll try and work out what's stopping other women from making this their career. |
| 0:53.4 | That's today's Business Daily on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:59.2 | Hi, Brenner. Hiya. |
| 1:01.2 | Nice to meet you. |
| 1:03.0 | Hi. |
| 1:04.2 | Meet Belinda, Brenner and Shavari. |
| 1:07.1 | They're talking for the first time via a Zoom call |
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