Super cool women doing neat things on bikes

Now that, is skills.

who thought this kid how to skid??! what the eff! :-)

This will interest you lots;

Women of the Tour Divide

If anyone not read Jill Homer's account of her ride in the Great Divide, buy it.

Built this for a coffee shop bike for the nipper...

Dat Gear...

Pushing 80" to the coffee shop? Actually, as it's Jess, probably spinning 80" to the coffee shop.

no install brklsss?

haha....66"

Now she just needs a tea shop bike.

Now she just needs foot retention.

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I reckon thats a light relief from double straps and carbon Bonts for four hours a day..

Cool picture. Haters gonna hate and all that. Team sprint world record holder can ride whatever she likes.

Enter her in a alleycat for lulz, (after the olympics though obviously).

http://cycleseven.org/the-isle-of-man-lighthouse-challenge-8-july-2012#more-9777

Realise Scott's post about Cindy should be on here;

Cindy Whitehead...One of mountain bikings original heroes.
She will forever be a legend to me after breaking her seatpost less than ten miles into a 60 mile mountain bike race (in proper mountain terrain, not groomed trails) and instead of quitting she rode the remaining 50+ miles standing up and went on to beat the reigning champion for the win.
She continued to be a force to be reckoned with for many years.

Shown here with the remaining seatpost still sticking out of her frame...

If you're interested in the early days of mountain biking then check out the rest of Charlie Kelly's website from the Cindy Whitehead link above...Kelly was one of the true Godfathers of Mountain biking...it's a shame he doesn't get the recognition that Gary Fisher does.

http://cycleseven.org/the-isle-of-man-lighthouse-challenge-8-july-2012#more-9777

She look incredibly young and beautiful too.

Lovely Hetchins.

I'll be watching this on the Beeb tonight - Victoria Pendleton: Cycling's Golden Girl

That was interesting - and my god it exposed the proximity she has to mental fragility / anxiety. But I learned nothing at all about training techniques, the specifics of the sport, the competition structures, the ins and outs of race day etc. Bit of a shame that. I don't know much about the technical side of the sport and this left me none the wiser. I find it a tad patronising to her and to me that the edit seemed to spend longer with the soap opera of her personal life than with the nature of the sport itself and the type of (physical) agony she has to put herself through to achieve what she has. The politics of the team were interesting though.

Very interesting program, i found the whole thing about Scott being forced out after Beijing rather disturbing though and painted BC as a bit of an evil empire. I've always respected her as an athlete but never really liked the girl, and I must admit having learnt a lot more about her and how much it means to her (although maybe still for the wrong reasons) I like her a whole lot more.

I agree with both of you - I'd love to have learned more of what it takes to get to where she is and I also found the relationship stuff quite unnerving - it seems to have been really traumatic for her.

I liked her before this but have now seen what an emotional and passionate person she is too.

However, it felt like it was missing half the story. I suppose there's only so much you can do with an hour.

A few years back there was a doco on Redgrave and Pincent et al which covered their prep for redgraves final Olympics. That was brilliant! Proper fly on wall stuff, right up their arses during training and political wrangles. I guess I'd hoped that this would be the same.

^ I remember it! Yes, brilliant. So much suspense and intrigue.

The deal with these documentaries isn't to appease us cycling nerds though, it's to win the support of the general public, who will know next to nothing about cycling, so the best way is to present the most humane and relateable factors like family, relationships, rivalry etc rather than the technicalities of the sport which they don't understand or care about (yet).

You're right of course Scoot about their motives for pitching it like that, but I'm not a cycling nerd (at least I didn't think I was), I'm a novice really, late to he game and pretty clueless. I certainly know nothing at all about rowing, but a bit of an insight took me a long way towards empathising with the athletes.

^ Ditto to being pretty clueless (about nearly everything).

Sorry, by bike nerds I didn't mean bike experts (I know absolutely nothing about cycling as a sport either) but more like bike enthusiasts, since we're always on our bikes and talking about bikes.

...or Sumo, always buying bikes.

Or thinking about buying bikes.