Super cool women doing neat things on bikes

The CTC are moving their tanks onto the BC's lawn. This is a reprisal for the BC/SKY armoured columns currently churning up the CTC's garden.

CTC , having just completed the change to a charity status fiasco have now t noticed Sky Ride and BC's ambitions to move out of Cycle sport into campainging for cyclists rights- which has always been the CTC's role.

So actually this is a good thing- not least that Sky/BC/Rapha contiue to ignore women's cycle sport.

But yes, a bit odd .

Exactly. WTF is a charity doing sponsoring a cycling team? Aside from placing CTC in the deeply dodgy company of Livestrong, it seems like a total waste of energy and money, preaching to the converted and undermining what should be a core value of the organisation, that cycling is not just about lycra-clad athletes. I'm pretty sure the values of the CTC could be advanced to greater effect and for less money by any number of other activities without getting involved in road racing, and I'm absolutely certain that I don't want my subs pissed away on this useless little vanity project for the trustees.

It's nice that they're all trying.

Is there anything that Marianne Vos can't do on a bike?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vos-shines-in-pro-mountain-bike-debut

Is there anything that Marianne Vos can't do on a bike?

Found on Tumblr;

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Krista Park is impressive. She builds her bikes herself, here modifiying her regular bike to race the singlespeed category at the MBAA Sierra Vista. Yes it has a 650b front wheel… Did I mention she raced in the men’s race? And finished 4th? She wanted to race longer than if she raced in the women’s race but ended beating all the guys except those who podiumed… She’s fast!

Photo by Dave McElwaine

Nice work Serena!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/21915779

"Woman goes to work by bicycle"

I think you'll find that's a super cool woman going to work on a bicycle. Though how much role model power it has alongside the statement "I really don't do bicycles" is admittedly questionable.

True, but she also said '"Riding to the match was probably one of my best memories ever."

Is it a vanity project for the CTC?

It's still VERY hard for most sports for women to go pro compared to men (tennis is one of the few sports where the balance is quite even) and cycling is no exception (female tour the France cancelled anyone?) therefore I personally don't have any problems with the CTC trying to balance the field.

Other members maybe disagree obviously but I haven't seen any pissy letters yet.

The women's Tour of Britain was also announced a couple of days ago, being planned for 2014: http://totalwomenscycling.com/news/womens-tour-of-britain-set-for-2014-2924/

Apropos Serena and her I-don't-do-bicycles, frankly she's not the only one at the moment. I've barely even looked at any of mine in months. Weather, gtfo

It's still VERY hard for most sports for women to go pro compared to men (tennis is one of the few sports where the balance is quite even) and cycling is no exception (female tour the France cancelled anyone?)

This might be true, but it still doesn't make it right for CTC to have anything to do with it. There is not some God given right for everybody to get equal treatment in professional sport, a branch of show business. It is a considerable stretch to see how funding a little side show is either good value for the marketing budget (simple test: if you can score advertising space at all in a space open to all the usual commercial competitors, you're probably over-paying, i.e. it's a vanity project) or a valid revenue spend in terms of the objects of the charity

(a) the relief of poverty by providing legal advice, assistance and representation to members of the public in relation to cycling.
(b) to advance the education of the public in the rights, liberties and duties of all citizens and public servants by publications, lectures or other similar forms of communication pr by commissioning research (and publishing the results of such research)
(c) to advance the education of the public in road safety and the safe use of bicycles including their maintenance.
(d) to advance the education of the public in non-polluting transport methods.
(e) to promote and encourage for the public benefit the development in the community of and the provision of safe routes, paths and facilities for cycling, walking and other forms of low energy transport.
(f) to promote healthful recreation, the conservation and protection of the environment, and the conservation of energy resources by promoting cycling as a means of transport.
(g) to provide facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation.
(h) to preserve and protect the health and safety of the public by encouraging and facilitating safe cycling

I don't see anything there which makes it a core activity of the charity to step in to commercial markets in an attempt to distort them towards somebody's idea of a politically correct Utopia.

Liz Clarke,

My hero: Co-director of Bikeright! Manchester
http://totalwomenscycling.com/news/interviews/five-minutes-with-liz-clarke-bikeright-3417/

I rarely use cycle lanes, because they’re for people who cycle 10mph and that’s great. But once you’re part of the traffic, you’re not going to be travelling at 10mph

sounds like our kind of leader.
wish you were here?
http://blog.wiggle.com/2013/03/26/wiggle-honda-team-training-camp-image-gallery-part-one/

Ah cool RE women's tour of Britain :)

QUOTE: This might be true, but it still doesn't make it right for CTC to have anything to do with it. There is not some God given right for everybody to get equal treatment in professional sport, a branch of show business.
###Nope there's no God given right but I support it. Female cycling publicity also seems to may have gotten women cycling.
If it's a good way to spend CTC money, that indeed depends. If cycling uptake increases, you may say it is. If it's the most cost effective way, that's another discussion...hard to say w/o any meaningful measuring of effect.

The cycle paths here usually are Sustrans dual use with pedestrians on them, with small kids and/or dogs and therefore aren't suitable for ripping it up. Liz' 10 mph applies...ones on the road are full of parked cars generally.

Bad public transport and no license are highly effective in keeping me on the bike. £10 a week for public transport, that's money I can spend on bike stuff or food instead of sitting in a narrow bus on a narrow seat with stuffy air with 40 grumpy people that don't want to be in it...

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omfgamazeballs

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can't stop watching...

Good to see both women's and men's races at the Ronde. Marianne Vos wins the women's edition.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/ronde-van-vlaanderen-tour-des-flandres-2013/results

Who is she and why she's on a bicycle that's too big for her?

not sure she is nice tho ...shoes look abit naff

Ah, reported.

? have i posted up someones girlfriend or something

This thread is for achievements greater than simply looking pretty

http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/04/news/rebecca-rusch-smashes-kokpelli-trail-record_284147

"I felt my left index finger in the wrong place. Without thinking I put it back in place, flexed it to see if I could still operate the brake, and hopped back on."