Riding astride is sometimes recommended for women.
Crouched astride a bike was a great place to think and he surely needed training with his July week in Iowa getting closer all the time.
Ladies ride asses and sit astride.
By nightfall the situation was all in favour of the allies; for Grouchy was now actually outside the four Prussian corps, who were by this time concentrated astride the Dyle at Wavre.
But in the following observations we deal generally with the more important features of riding as practised astride.