Glossy photos of girls on bikes!

The real thing is, RP, that nearly everything out there that has to do with women and cycling, at least in mainstream media, is about how hot they look on their bike. I'm tired of seeing loads and loads of the attitude that women are only there to look good, not to ride hard.

There is a difference between meeting and talking to real people, and the over all attitude there is in society about women. I'm not exactly a man hating femi-bike natzi, but I prefer seeing other female cyclists doing something more interesting then getting their kit off on or near a bike.

Hi Nat, you said it yourself 'in mainstream media'. I personally believe the general public have little idea how hard it is to ride a bike fast or well. Much of the interest in cyclesport on the continent is generated by the fact that the public DO ride bikes and can therefore understand. On that basis the mainstream media would have an impossible task explaining heroic cycling stories. What they are doing is riding the wave that is a cycling rennaisance by the only means they can find, the use of glamour. This isn't isolated to cycling or women...

........why isn't there a massive groundswell of negative opinion to Paul Sackey promoting rugby?