Super cool women doing neat things on bikes

That amazing lady who passed the Coach and Horses on Sunday (we all clapped). Three kids, a dog and the shopping!

I forgot about her, Vee Vee! Glad I saw this thread to relive that moment! I can't imagine piloting all that with no help!

Harriet Fell (Sheldon Brown's missus) has some pretty incredible achievements on and off a bike, but her account of the 1975 Paris-Brest-Paris is nothing short of inspirational.

Slightly unfortunate surname for a bike rider. ;)

I forgot about her, Vee Vee! Glad I saw this thread to relive that moment! I can't imagine piloting all that with no help!

But she is getting help! Look at how the little one holds the duvet!

Just looked up the report:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/british-road-championships-ne/elite-womens-road-race/results

Race shortened to 48k? That's hardly a racing distance. Well done to Emma Pooley nonetheless.

There was a bad crash in the first lap which led to the race being shortened.

Pooley snuck away in the final kilometre to win. Armistead then outsprinted Cooke for second. Cooke has subsequently been moaning about team tactics, complaining that they aren't 'fair'. Suck it up.

She's still a very strong rider, but it seems to me that her knee problems are taking their toll, not to mention the team-finding difficulties. Let's see if she can up her game to hold off young riders like Armitstead. She's won everything you could win, anyway, so if her career ended tomorrow it would have been great.

While we're about it: Lizzie Armitstead did AMAZINGLY at the road race nationals - remember she's better known as a track cyclist. When Wiggo rode up a hill everyone was like "ooh, isn't he brave" - well, you didn't see him getting silver at the nationals this week, did you?!

(obv Bradley Wiggins is still amazing, but I'm just trying to point out that Armitstead might be just a teeny bit more amazing)

her hair is nicer than wiggo's

gold silver and bronze at the worlds was quite nice too.

(obv Bradley Wiggins is still amazing, but I'm just trying to point out that Armitstead might be just a teeny bit more amazing)

Maybe two years ago you would have had a point, but she's 21 now. :)

I agree, by the way.

2:16 is sexy

http://road.cc/content/news/19323-jeannie-longo-wins-her-9th-french-national-time-trial-championship%E2%80%A6-age-51

Pretty impressive, 9th TT title, and she's 51 years old! She's got good taste too, Cervélo = love.

from the Team Mule Bar Girl FB page:
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**TMBG Hannah STORMS the Marmotte, taking off over a 1hour20mins off last years time finishing in 8 hours 20mins. Getting a GOLD in the mens event. watch this space for how she did in the womens rankings.

Cha-muh-f***ing-peau!

It's not that great a time anyway, I did it quicker than that! :P

oh pur-lease....I have Team Mule Bar pervading every aspect of my internet life through their omnipresent internet spiel, d'you think we could hold off on the reposting of it here?!

(disclaimer: I am friends with various parts of Mule bar girls so I'm not having a go; jut saying I'm getting a bit bored of hearing how everything they do is AWESOME and EXCITING and OMG TMBG just GOT OUT OF BED BEFORE MIDDAY AND GUESS WHAT WE'RE HAVING COCOPOPS for BREAKFAST!)

do you have a link to this blog? i'm always interested in what elite athletes have for breakfast.

please excuse me while I go and stick a needle full of drugs into my eyeballs.

Kelloggs Drugsintomyeyeballs. Mmmm, fortified.

It starts off a bit crunchy when you blink but vision soon goes soggy.

congrats to Stelle
south east region womens track champion

Emma Pooley is having a great Giro Donne it seems! 5th in the GC, 2nd on a stage ending at the Stelvio, and way up there in the mountains classement! She's having a fantastic season.

http://www.cervelo.com/en_us/news-blog/testteam/article/emma-pooley-second-on-the-top-of-stelvio/753/

congrats to Stelle
south east region womens track champion

yay! congrats lady!

Stelle.
Does that mean you were just racing with a broken collarbone?

Connie Paraskevin Young

Connie Paraskevin Young

**Very nice photo! thanks!

**more at [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Paraskevin[/ame] here is an excerpt:

Constance Anne Paraskevin, known as Connie (married name Paraskevin-Young; born July 4, 1961) is a retired http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America professional track cyclist and speed skater. She is a four times sprint world champion, ten times national sprint champion and an Olympic bronze medalist.
Paraskevin began skating at the age of ten, she won two bronze medals at the world speed skating championships in 1978. At the age of 19, she was a member of the US team at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Winter_Olympics.
Paraskevin campaigned to have the women's sprint event included in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Summer_Olympics. She went on to compete at a further two Summer Olympics before retiring at the end of 1996.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, she is the former wife of the Olympic cyclist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Young when she briefly dabbled in track cycling. She is now a coach and motivational speaker.

two more photos from http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=28227 links section of Wikipedia...

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

We'll see if that's still true when Marianne Vos has finished.

Meanwhile, Shnaaaaayze!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8874205.stm

Also impressive: 2 Olympic golds in the winter, 2 national championships in the summer
http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/czech-road-championships-cn/elite-women-junior-road-races/results