There are not many issues I feel strongly about, but this is one of them.
I feel cycling, in any form, is good for personal well being, for the environment too, of course.
When CC Ecosse toured from Glasgow to Inverness, there was a very tough stage.
I found myself pedaling up yet another hill, exhausted, still going though, remembering two men in my past.
They would have said " you can't, you can't, you can't ...."
They loved me, you see.
Well, I can, I am doing it, so can all women that want to.
Nay, I'm suggesting they should shut up
I'm adding something too:
guys (the ones that do this) please don't try to get the women in your life up Mount Ventoux if they rather like a poodle along the canal.
Don't buy them a bike with a basket if they are looking fondly at a road bike - or indeed the opposite.
Most women compromise somehow in a relationship about many things, cycling should not be one of them.
Let us enjoy our little cycling conquests without putting us down: I hear lots of Belles saying " my husband is a good cyclist, he wants me to do more hills faster, he wants me to ride that bike, he wants me to wear this clothing, he wants me to ride the road, I need to train because he wants to ride that long route with me".
We had men on CC on past threads asking why is there the need of female cycling groups, well, this is why.
Oh, and another thing, the Belles would never leave a sick, injured or tired rider to find their own way home, while some groups lead by men do, I have witnessed this quite a few times, that's why I never go with a mixed group without having the route loaded on my Garmin.
But maybe I'm going a wee bit off topic now.
