Q: What is this site about?

A: It's almost strictly about the top pro greatest women of the last 30 years, their palmares, stats, highlights and short stories of their career. This site was created to educated young and old alike, and especially young enthusiasts who might want to enter the sport of women's cycling. This site hopes to provide a history of how the sport evolved, the races and the riders.

Q: Is this strictly a roadie site?

A: Yes, 99 percent roadie, with a tiny bit of track, but mostly roadie.

Q: Is there any Cross, BMX or Mountain bike stuff on this site?

A: No, Zip, Ziltch, Nada, None. I am a roadie fan strictly, but I don't have the time either for anything else.

Q: Does this site report on any real time live events?

A: No, sites like CN and Velonews do that, but this site is more like a women's hall of fame, it's mostly historical in content, but I do post photos from some California NRC events yearly, as well as a few east coast events like Tour De Toona, Liberty Classic.

Q: How many riders will be indexed total?

A: I would like to keep it at most, the top 150 pro women of all times.

Q: When will the palmares be complete on all the riders?

A: I don't know!

Q: Why do some palmares say that X rider won stage 3, when you know it was stage 4 they won?

A: Because its depends on how the palmares or stage results are written. For instance CN uses stage 3a and 3b on some races. Others will write 3b as being stage 4, which then changes all the stage numbers that follow that. Also some call the prologue stage 1, when they write results, but others call the stage after the prologue stage 1. The best thing to do is to match the name of city, place or date to the exact stage you know about or are looking for, which then will correct the order of all the stages for your interests. Bit tricky, but no one follows a standard for writing results in the same fashion. Not a perfect world.

Q: When will the articles be complete?

A: I don't know!

Q: Will you add photos for all the riders?

A: Yes, in time, although some are quite rare, and not only takes finding them, but paying sometimes a hefty price.

Q: Where do you get your photos?

A: They are mostly ones I took at races, and also a friend donates photos taken at east coast events. Also I have a number of friends in Italy, France, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland who either donate, loan or sell me photos.

Q: Are photos free?

A: Photos are free to view, but not to use without permission. Photos on loan to this site must require the permission of their respective owners, and not this site. Only the photos that are the property of procyclingwomen.com can be granted to use for a specific reason, if needed for a good cause.

Q: Where do you obtain data for your articles, stats, palmares, etc?

A: I have tons of videos I saved from the past of women's races from all over the world, plus tons of cycling mags I subscribed to from all over the world, as well as many rare books on women's cycling, and at least three very good sources for palmares and race results to compare and make sure the palmares and stats are as correct as possible. Stories or the articles are researched from scratch from both observations from races, race videos, race reports, books, and many sources from Italy, France, Holland, Belgium, Australia, USA, and other unique resources, and out of that, I write something as meaningful as possible, and quote sources if needed, but always put things in my own words. Nothing is plagiarized at this site.

Q: Will you be doing interviews with riders?

A: Rarely, they are time consuming, expensive, and not really what this site is mainly about, but I will add some interviews in time. Not the typically kind, but if I do any, they will be well done. I was trying to get Laura Charameda to do one recently.

Q: Do you use advertising on your site?

A: No, there are no ads or pop-ups to drive you crazy. No chat rooms, no web boards, no confusing navigation, just very clean straight forward database of the great women pros. This is a free non pay site, with nothing to drive you stark raving mad, so enjoy!

Q: Do you have links of other women cycling sites?

A: El tons, probably more then anywhere else, because I want people to know these places and have access to them. Its very important I feel to have these links, many International links for Italy and France as well.

Q: Will you change the colors and splash on your site?

A: Not for now, I will in time someday give it a new facelift, and new logo, but for now it stays this way, so I can focus on content.

Q: Do this site use scripts, CSS or old html?

A: I use no scripts, no search engines for now, just plain old HTML, mainly because I want people in third world countries that still use old Pentiums and Windows 98, 2000, and older browsers to bring up the pages without any problems, so the site is backwards compatible. That's important to me.

Q: Do you see any bandwidth limitations in the future?

A: No, I use GoDaddy, and I can pretty much handle a lot of traffic. That's why I got on board with a huge hosting company, because I knew the photos would eat up a lot of bandwidth. I won't have to start charging money like Cyclebase did, nor would I even consider it.

Q: Is this a non profit site?

A: Yes, it's totally non profit. I do it for fun, and because I enjoy doing it. I want to advance women's cycling in this regard and provide a historical timeline, and history of the top pro women. I have no desire to profit off of pro women by selling their photos. Any pro women who sees a photo of themselves can use one, but I would like you to drop me a line, telling me that you want one. Some photos are not mine, but belong to my friends used with permissions as we work closely together, and you need to ask them about their photos.

Q: How many people work this site?

A: Only one, but many contribute to its success.

Q: Do you get a lot of traffic at this site?

A: Tons, in the beginning, not much in the first two months until it became known, but now hundreds of megs of photos are downloaded daily for viewing from all over the world.

Q: Is this site stable?

A: It's up 24/7, and very stable running on a Linux Apache server.

Q: Where is the contact for this site?

A: It's listed in the (About this site) page. Reason being, I don't want to be spammed or bothered too much about nonsense. If you have something to say about women's cycling, or some related thoughts, use that email for contact.

Q: Why do you have this site?

A: It's the result and culmination of a cycling hobby I have following for over 20 years now, starting back in the old days when Leontien won the worlds. Since that time I have collected tons of mags, videos, books, data, stats and highlights of the top women pros, so I decided to create a historical site to share with anyone who in interested. Also, no one has really done a good job covering the history and the riders, so I decided to do it. In some small way, I can do my bit to advance their status in the cycling world.

Q: Do you know any pro women personally?

A: Quite a few, both nationally and internationally. While I don't know them on a daily basis, I know and have talked with quite a few over the years, at races, through friends, and through the Internet.

Q: Who are my friends, affiliate sites?

A: Ladiescycling.net, Chicabike, Bici Ticino, Petite Raines.

Q: When will this site end?

A: In 15 years time, if this site is still here, and its finished, I might turn it over to some sports historical society for women's cycling.

Q: Will you write a book on women's cycling?

A: I hope to write a book about women's cycling in ten years time.