I’ve been working in cycling and – by nature of being a woman working in cycling – women’s cycling for around 15 years, and if there’s one sentence I’m sick off, it’s “well, things are improving, it’s just slow.”
“Progress is there, but it’s incremental.”
The same stock response, over and over, to explain why women’s gear always follows several years after the men’s version of the same; why headline races in the men’s calendar have not existed for women; why joining the average club ride still feels like being the rare species attraction in a zoo: “Here, we have the female variant of the cyclist. It has a monthly cycle which occasionally inte
