Interesting collection of photos and stories of women cyclists

[C R]

As per the title on the beeb website

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-49661730

Left me wanting to find out more.

 

[Sharky]

Mustn't forget Eileen Sheridan
https://rouleur.cc/editorial/eileen-sheridan/

 

[steveindenmark]

Google The adventure syndicate.

 

[Drago]

That's a great article C R. All the more so because it's not sportswomen or slebs, but just normal women that happen to love cycling.

 

[C R]

That's a great article C R. All the more so because it's not sportswomen or slebs, but just normal women that happen to love cycling.

Indeed, that was the most interesting part.

 

[kapelmuur]

We’re going to Bolton next week to see the play about Beryl Burton.

 

[AuroraSaab]

I have mentioned this site on here before. It's a great site about women in sport, often not mainstream sport but endurance type events.

It covers so many amazing female athletes - I find it very inspiring. My favourite ones are the woman who rowed the Atlantic on four days notice, and the girl who survived a shipwreck by swimming a few miles to an island, and now she's a triathlon champ. Here are some of the biking ones:

http://lessonsinbadassery.com/tag/cycling/

 

[mudsticks]

More women on a group ride

https://www.businessinsider.com/r-k...y-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar

 

[T4tomo]

Mustn't forget Eileen Sheridan
https://rouleur.cc/editorial/eileen-sheridan/

Blue plaque unveiled for her
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lq5g1qvzo

a write up when she passed away in 2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-64663783

she still holds 4 "place to place" RRA she set in the 1950's. What a lady!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Beryl Burton.

I attended June Pitchford's funeral recently http://beaconrcc.org.uk/june-raw-pitchford/

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

"Chapeau!" to those ladies, especially those seen to be breaking (what are possibly?) cultural taboos?

As for the famous ones;
Val Rushworth (contemporary of BB) lived in the same village as me, when she married Alan Rainbow
Beryl Burton, I used to run with her nephew (her brothers son), before he emigrated, & sure that Denise (BBs daughter) picked him up once?

With Val in mind, another rather famous cyclist grew up in the same village as I did (quite a few years earlier)
I knew his dad & sister, a family by the surname of Hoban...

On the male side, Alistair, the father of one of the present GB track team (Ollie Wood) was in my year at secondary school, & was a damned good 'schoolboy racer'

 

[Chris S]

Those photos were taken near me. There are lots of cyclists in the B12/13/14 areas. School Rd in Kings Heath has a steady stream of cyclists taking their kids to school in the morning, probably because it's been partially blocked to motor vehicles.

 

[Chris S]

We’re going to Bolton next week to see the play about Beryl Burton.

Somebody in a 'steel bike' Facebook page used to swamp it with pictures of her. I used to wind him up by saying she looked like JFK.