YEAH Rachel (warning cyclocross content)

Finally. A good article in Velonews: Rachel's Return. You can't help but say "cool" when Rachel's mother is emailing my mother about Rachel's race.

Go give it a read. Then you can go watch the women's race if you haven't already.

The most poignant part of the article is this:

“I had been dirt-bagging it for so long, and part of me felt like if I’m going to be living like this I might as well just have fun and not stress about results,” Lloyd said. “I felt like if I was meant to be a bike racer, I should have been getting paid. I mean, most people don’t spend 10 years working a job where they don’t get paid.”

How often is that echoed. Pro Women travel around just as much or more than the men, yet i would be suprised if a local cat 2-3 man can make more $$ in prize money pimping crits all summer.

I applaud the work and effort Myles is putting into the sport on that front. I wish other New England Promoters would take his lead. Take all the cash out of the Masters races. None of them 'need' the cash, sure it is nice getting a $50 blank check of some cash. But is that going to make a difference in a Master racer's season? Not that $50 would be a big drop in a PRO woman's pocketbook, but it certainly would make more of an impact on a female pro cyclists than some master racer who has bought all his own gear and can afford to drop a few hundred on a new set of dugasts at will.

Now speaking of fixing things that are broken.

OBRA seems (to me) to have one upped USAC on the category side of things. Personally I think it makes WAY more sense.

Check it out at K-man's page.

So there. something different than yogurt wars for a change
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