Another female bike commuter here. We are a car-lite family, and my husband uses our car to get to work.

I take my son to preschool most weekdays on my bike. We're trying to work out a good solution for cycling in the winter rain. This is our first winter in the PNW and while we've been sucking it up for a while, the chill is getting to both of us (maybe more my conscience about having a toddler out on the bike in the rain?). I am getting a new bike soon (woo hoo!) and want to set up something like this for him to make the ride a bit more comfortable for him: http://youaintgotjack.blogspot.com/p...rotection.html

In any case, I still see a fair amount of commuters in the town where we live, but like someone else mentioned, it's hard to tell whether they are male or female a lot of times.