Why oh why can I not find a book about women throughout the history of cycling?

Does anyone have any links to decent articles about women + cycling?

this is one good one that i've found so far https://www.annielondonderry.com/womenWheels.html

Forrester's book "effective cycling" has interesting stuff about his familly, who were there when bikes were first made. There is an HG Wells novel. Also check out bicycle related museums, especially advertising directed at women.

The answer to that question lies down the road to Politics & Religion, I'm afraid.

There is a wiki and some other stuff on Beryl Burton.

It had as much to do with the fact that the Sixes at the Garden were a blood sport than discrimination against women.

There were even some women who competed with the men in the early days, but it was rare.

Start with the history of cycling in general, then dig a little deeper and you'll find your sisters

There is womens only forum here not open to everyone.
E-mail the mods to gain access permissions to enter that
forum.

Is that where they keep the books?

Rebecca Twigg and Connie Carpenter were cool cyclists back in the day. Not sure what they're doing now. I think that Connie is running a training camp with her husband, Davis Phinney, and doing benefit work for Parkinson's Disease.

Because you have not done a search in the right place...

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Edit: I realised this reply seemed a tad rude, twas not my intent. Sorry.

But I have done that exact search. They're mostly guide books for women. A fair few of them are quite modern. What I'm more interested in is, for example... the links between bicycle and womens liberation... back in the late 19th century and early 20th... and the first women to excel at track racing, long distance races etc...

i shall have a look for beryl burton, I'm sure she's mentioned in the book 'one more kilometre and we're in the showers'... didnt she do amazingly well in a 12/24 hour race... falling asleep on the bike and stuff?

Jose Dew has a whole series of books of her tours.

If you look up the history of the Paris-Brest-Paris (PBP), you'll see it talks about women in cycling. Back in the late 1800s people figured that if anyone did a 1200 km ride in such a short time he would drop dead ... but they figured that a woman would drop dead on a shorter ride than that. So they didn't allow women to ride the PBP at first, despite the fact that quite a few signed up.

I like most of "Effective Cycling" but the section in which he talks about women cyclist and in particular trying to hook up with them borders on creepy.

I read in the paper (NY Post or Daily News) sometime this week that there is going to be a pre-TdF ride along the first leg of the TdF in England. It is supposed to honor an English woman who was the first woman to ride around the world. I'm sure there must be some info on this around somewhere. From her picture it looked like she rode in the late 19th or early 20th century.

This may be a completely stupid question - But, are women specifically denied the right to compete in the TdF and other world class races? Do the rule books say no women allowed?

As far as I know, yes. But there is a seperate women's Tour de France, which Nicole Cooke won.

Does the separate women's TdF follow the same course as the mens? Is it sponsored by the same organization as the men's?

It would be great to see a TdF with men and women sharing the podium, mens class winners and female class winners.

I'm not into racing, but it would seem like a way of bringing bike racing into the 21st century and a way of expanding interest in the sport.

From what I have read, women are allowed to compete in the TDF, but rarely if ever make a qaulifying team.

No, the women's TDF does not follow the same course. It has not gained the popularity of women's tennis or golf. It was not even held in 2004:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Boucle

Money makes sporting events because they are entertainment. Sponsors want Return On Investment for money spent. Maybe sending letters to OLN for tv coverage may revive the women's tour.

I read the same article. Doing a search on Ask.com revealed this tidbit of information: 1894 - Annie "Londonderry" Kopchovsky, 23, sets out to become the first woman to bicycle around the world, a journey that lasted 15 months and earned her $5,000 along the way.