I for one think it's a shame that the women's forum got closed off to the general public. I'm not sure why women's topics need to be only accessable to women. A saw a lot of women asking questions that exacted plenty of good advice and information from the men. I also saw some very valid threads in that forum started by men who were inquiring on behalf of their female friends. Besides... what's to stop someone from pretending to be female to get into Women's Cycling? This is the Internet... that kind of thing happens all the time.