lonefrontranger

cranky GenX nerd she/her cycling and general chaos the horrors persist and so do I

[picascribit]

There are 2 types of fanfic:

fanfic that I like

fanfic that is none of my business

[everyonewooeverywhere]

life would be so peaceful if more people understood this lol

[radioclashh]

wake up babe another patlef classic just dropped

[roglaert]

DIVA!

Wout at the team presentation before stage 2 of Criterium du Dauphiné 2026

[2colde]

im getting on the crazy bus to crazy city

[mont-ventoux]

my beautiful wife useless attack dot mp4

[tourdeflop]

Oh and ANOTHER thing I’m angry about: the women’s trophy being so much smaller and more boring than the men’s.

[tourdeflop]

Anna van der Breggen is going to win the giro 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[lonefrontranger]

:)

[dorothylarouge]

[ihni]

Tell me an inside joke between you and a friend, without context.

[ihni]

I beg of everyone to read the tags to this post, as they are all random and hilarious and read kind of like a poem, if the poem was written by someone who was on a lot of drugs.

[famylee83]

This man needs to be hunted for sport.

[highway-61-revisited]

i think ive gotta dance myself clean yk

[tourdeflop]

[tourdeflop]

wow i’m so happy professional women’s cycling is taken so serious that we can get a whole whopping 15 km of coverage 😍😍😍 huge win for feminism

[doctor-whoop]

four cyclocrossers on a train.

[thelittlebirdthatkeptsomanywarm]

liking women's sport is truly like. there's always some bullshit.

[mont-ventoux]

genuinely what do we need to do for 2-week women’s gts because this is balls

[mont-ventoux]

with LESS sprint stages because who wants to watch one billion flat sprints and like 2 real gc days

[lonefrontranger]

fucking… giro donne event management, UCI, the absolute slapstick comedy of how poorly women’s cycling is STILL BEING HANDLED

if anyone wonders why, as a woman road cyclist and former elite racer I don’t engage much with women’s cycling beyond just watching what coverage is available, it’s because it’s too fucking enraging and exhausting to see the same bullshit attitudes perpetuated by the media and the establishment for the last forty years. and yes there’s been progress over the past two decades but a lot of it still feels like window dressing.

don’t get me wrong I am SO PROUD of how far the sport has come since my peak when women racers were effectively unpaid amateurs and a UCI professional women’s license didn’t even exist. we had to change under blanket tents in parking lots and pee in hidden corners behind bushes because women’s facilities didn’t exist. women’s elite events were dominated by one or two outliers (several of whom were ultimately proven to be doped off their asses) and the rest of us were just pack fill. after I put in those killing turns in the mountains for my leader I got left to fall behind the rolling enclosure and find my way back to the finish as best as possible on open roads. the vast majority of us had to pay for our own equipment, entry fees and travel, some of us were trying to manage a family or university or both on top of that.

fortunately a lot of this has improved for the very top of the sport however there’s still so much work yet to be done and I am so so very tired