Super cool women doing neat things on bikes

Well done to both Gina and Charlotte!

this 83-year-old lady rode her bicycle 150 miles in two days to raise money for multiple sclerosis
she's been doing this for 25 years

amazing lady

Yeah! I love the basket too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b36Yi-Pb1wM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthecycleshow.tv%2F2009%2F08%2F18%2Fcycling-role-models-for-a-fixie-generation%2F&feature=player_embedded#t=223

A bump to mention a super cool woman who just sailed round Britain despite being quadraplegic. OK, it's a boat, rather than a bike, but she is bloody awesome and I think we can let that detail slide...
http://www.hilarylister.com/A96C9/Home.aspx

chrissie wellington - her 3rd successive world ironman win at the weekend, with a final time of 8:54:02 for the 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and 26.2 mile marathon. A. Mazing.

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Good bump, but the page at the new address doesn't load--server down or something?

Yes, it did come up eventually when I tried it again later.

Leontien van Moorsel best female cyclist to come out of the Netherlands ever.

just found this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5CNtIPd7IQ

^ha! I won that Alley cat. Well, Stef and I tied for first.

^ha! I won that Alley cat. Well, Stef and I tied for first.

About time we had another,no?

I have just spent the last hour reading through this thread and loved every minute. Nice work guys.

Kudos to your ma asm

Loved that video tricitybendix my hairs stood on end.

Also, velo libre, really fun to watch that video.

Eileen Sheridan - broke the record for cycling from Lands End to Jon O'Groats in June of 1954. After completing the 870 miles, she continued on another 130 to break the 1000 mile time record too!

More pics/info on this Flickr stream

Edit: Oh, and she's from my home town of Coventry, too :)

^ha! I won that Alley cat. Well, Stef and I tied for first.

About time we had another,no?

Alley cats are for couriers, you people need to stop faking it up.

Oh noes, fakengers are stealing the funs, call teh Daily Mail. Whatever next, chavs riding our bikes on our streets and old people on the BMX track. Britten are broked, it's am ite-rage.

Look at the size of them drops! The brake levers do not look like they have a usable hood position either. Imagine riding 1000miles like that!

YouTube- Fat bird on bike

Supercool fail
Neat things fail
On a bike fail

Re Eileen Sheridan

There is some you tube footage of her doing the 100mile record, which was run on a course from London to Norwich or up what would be the A11 and then the A12,

I think the film of that run explains her set up. She seems to have rode mainly on the drops to get a flat back.

If you read " One more Kilometre and we are in the Showers" by Tim Hilton, which I am amazed none of you mention, then there is a chapter on women and post war distance record breaking . Eileen and others feature in this

Of course that would be back in the day when people knew what drops were for.

If you read " One more Kilometre and we are in the Showers" by Tim Hilton, which I am amazed none of you mention, then there is a chapter on women and post war distance record breaking . Eileen and others feature in this

That book, quirky as it is, ought to be read by anyone interested in cycling in England. Indeed, I would go so far as to suggest that anyone who has not read it should pop off and buy or borrow it now and read it before posting on here again.

Excellent suggestion, what's your commision BTW

I ve also now met on the of the Rosslyn Ladies

They are very upset with what he wrote about them...

From the Telegraph

he admits himself, his information came from no more reliable source than a stranger in a public lavatory at Waltham Abbey.

Silly boy.