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Q: What is this site about?

A: This site is a mixed bag. I started out to do more historical work then field work, but I have since moved more toward field work and working with others to help move the sport forward a bit. I'll still in time hopefully plan to finish the historical work I started out to do. In the future, I would like to continue to do field work, but at a reasonable level or scope. I never intended to dragnet the NRC or UCI scene as that would be extremely expensive but also not productive. I never have believed in quanity, but always quality. Don't bite off too much, and always try to do the best job according to your means.

I don't believe in one big site trying to be the Centre of Cycling, but I do believe in a thousand points of light. With women's pro road cycling, that's what we need is a thousands points of light, where people in their unique part of the world are the best equipped and most familiar with the customs, the language, and the lay of the land to be able to go out and do some great work to share with the rest of the world. Sharing and working together is what will move women's pro road cycling forward because it's a smaller specialty side of cycling that often gets ignored.

As once demonstrated on a old episode of Bonanza, one stick can easily be broken by two hands. However when you put a bundle of sticks together, they cannot be broken. I think if everyone who believes in fairness and would like to move women's cycling forward would put aside their differences and work together to move the sport forward, then there would be better equity between the pro men and women today instead of the men getting all the attention and women getting almost nothing. However, it's not just the press or field workers job either to make things better, the players have to help as well, or it's really all for nothing. Everyone must work together, and if that ever happens, you will see wonderful things happen!

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 some races from Europe through connections there, and several friends who work the Euro circuits.

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 takes time finding them.

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 of share photos through a collaboration.

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 you are a rider of team, please send your requests to us.

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 might add some interviews in time. Not the typically kind, but if I do any, they will be well done. I am more interesting in getting to the root of the problems with women's cycling and it's possible solutions then just writing fluff interviews or typically race reports. If the former is not addressed, the later hardly makes any difference cause nobody listening.

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. I also have a nice photo gallery, video, news and photo links to a great many resources, plus the links page contains a huge number of resouces for women cyclists. 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. Same goes for the video and photo links, but I think the news feed is something people enjoy very much since they don't have to hunt down all the tib-bits of women's cycling news scattered all over the internet at hundreds of difference sites that mostly cater to men.

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

A: 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 them to drop me a line, telling me that they 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 months until it became known, but now hundreds of photos are viewed daily 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 on the homepage.

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, but I was actually at the first Nevada City race in 1978 for women cause I used to shoot videos as a teenager. Since that time I have been many times including 1995 when Stacey Copper won. 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, Cycling Quotient, few others.

Q: When will this site end?

A: In 20 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 someday.