Pro-cycling thread

Emma Pooley makes a good point, but of course the main question is still why there isn't a women's Tour de France. I appreciate that she's talking about a race that actually exists, though (and that needs to give women the other half of the road by becoming bigger). :)

I hope it will 'do a women's tennis', where I strongly suspect (not knowing much about it) that its current prominence owes much to the activities of Billie Jean King and others. That was decades ago, and perhaps it'll take that long, but there have been such excellent female road racing stars in the last few years that perhaps it'll continue to gain momentum.