Many, many years ago, I went to Catholic school.
How many years ago?, you ask. Well, the nuns who taught us were covered from head to toe, except for their faces, in black. I remembered them when, years later, I learned about the severe sartorial codes conservative Islamic states impose on women.
Needless to say, women who live under such restrictions don't do much cycling. To be fair, that also has to do with other restrictions--arguably, the most extreme have been imposed by the Taliban in Afghanistan--on where, when and with whom women can work, travel or simply be in a public space.
To my knowledge, even the most conservative orders of nuns aren't so constrained in their day-to-day movements. Still, I have a hard time imagining a woman riding a bicycle in one of those long habits. Unless...
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