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Ace. cats are the best. Even better when you have some personal connection to them and a cool story about them. He is your new child. What did you call him?

That is SO TRUE. Although I think mine acts as though he is my husband (except he is housetrained).

Don't bother with the gym, builds useless muscles - riding more is the only way to go!

surely if you are building muscles you are doing it wrong... if you are training muscles then the gym is good.

Mix it up Shoosh - and have fun.

Thank you. I do and I will. As I'm recovering from an injury I understand completely about training the weakness. It is like hell at the moment but it has to get better. Soon. Doesn't it?

I also have a pilates machine at home which I use when I haven't been able to get to the gym.

i would love to have this. wouldn't fit in my flat though!!!

It is my second one. I sold my first when I had a huge clearout of fitness equipment and regretted it immediately. My latest is an aero pilates... wouldn't be without it.

That would be revealing our secrets..

Oh go on, you can tell me, I won't tell anyone... that is why I am called Shoosh!*

*that is my story and I'm sticking to it.

Thanks for all those links. I had read a number of them but they don't seem to tell me specifically what training or fitness other forum members are actually doing.

I'm surprised to find so few threads about fitness and training on here. The main one is in the track forum. http://www.lfgss.com/thread30549.html There is another older one which has some rather suspect youtube clips, which I didn't feel comfortable reviving.

I've read elsewhere that strength training, which is a must for anyone who wants to avoid oestoporosis, is not very good for cycle training, although as someone who has a fitness background, I would disagree.

I am a gym fanatic (there has to be one!). 3-5 times a week, doing cardio and weights and one aqua-aerobics class if I have the time. And then I'm out on my bike. I'm still reasonably unfit (recovering from an injury) so I only do a lap of about 5 miles. I also have a pilates machine at home which I use when I haven't been able to get to the gym.

Do you do other training aside from cycle? Do you use bikes in the gym to supplement your cycling? What other exercise do you do? I'd particularly like to hear from those who are training for things like Dunwich. Is it just time in the saddle that brings on cycle fitness?

I totally agree, I would LOVE to open a ladies bike shop! I think it would get a lot more women cycling, especially those who don't have the interest/abilty/time to spend hours trawling the internet for information.

I find it really annoying that when a woman asks for a bike that will fit her people often respond with 'get a custom one' which I certainly can't afford. And it seems female specific bikes that aren't custom are limited to road bikes and hybrids, I would love to live in a world where for every male geometry bike they made a female version.

You open it, I will come and do the Marketing for you! All we need now is some finance...

I have felt for a long time there is a big need for a ladies only bike shop which specialises in OTP stuff for women as well as custom made. With the right marketing they could make a fortune, especially if they specialised in helping the newbies put all the right kit together. I think far many women want to cycle but find the whole atmosphere in bike shops totally intimidating.

Shoosh, please don't take offence but it might be worth looking at Isla Bikes. They make kids bikes but their largest kids track bike will be about right for you (hard to say exactly as it depends on more than just your height).

Check this link and click on the Reis 700.
http://www.islabikes.co.uk/bike_pages/reis.html

The benefit of 700c wheels means you'll have a far bigger choice of tyres let alone rims if you ever need to replace them/upgrade them.
You'll need to also buy brake/s depending on if you want to run it single speed or fixed but it is still a bargain in my opinion and although they are made in the far east it is a small british company run by a very nice lady.

Why should I take offence? I'm on here... if I was easily offended I would never have registered.

Thanks for this, that looks one cool bike. I don't care about whether its a kids bike...I still have a mental age of 14 so it could suit me down to the ground.

for the love of all that is holy, please don't spray the bike pink like every other girl on the planet!! ;-)

awww are you trying to spoil my fun ;o) from memory the only reason why i chose my MTB is because it was orange.

Since you're 5'2, it's best to go for a 650c wheel bicycle than a 700c.

there are decent frame that you can choose from, such as the IRO Mark V HD (design for those who's 5'3 and under), and the Fuji Track 650c, this is as far as I know.

problem with 700c is that for you it's huge and there's only so much you can go down in size (apart from a sloped top tube frame).

A 650c bicycle to you will be like a 700c to a person of average height, here's an example of a 650c wheel bike and a 700c wheels one;

THANK YOU for such wonderful input. xxx

Thanks to everyone who has replied so far. This info is just BRILLIANT ;o) I'm 5ft 2in so will need a small frame too... I feel I am going to have to get someone to build me a lovely bike (and probably spray it pink).

Started communting by bike about 3 years ago - hadn't owned a bike for about 15 years before that - now look at me!

You give me hope ;o)

Is this going to turn into a 'Date my hot fixie chick friend' thread? ;-)

Count me in too.

If the women want a sub-forum maybe more should be putting their opinion forward on this thread

I thought we had.

thanks this is all really useful... keep the info coming. ;o)

Well done on a successful ride and what sounds like a fab day out. I wanted to ask you all a question which I have done here....

http://www.lfgss.com/thread46170.html

Reading through the other threads, I can find very little about what current bikes the ladies are riding (aside from self-builds - isn't going to happen unless someone does it for me).

I've been looking through the London-Brighton pics but can't seem to identify anything from the photos.

Are any of you riding OTPs? If so, what? I'm particularly interested to hear from the ladies that did the London to Brighton. What were you riding?

Thanks. I wasn't so much concerned with women only rides, more about the other stuff (i'm going to be brave and start a new thread so you can see what I mean).

I'd be happy to participate in any rides as long as I felt I was fit enough - which at the moment i'm not.

What makes you think I will be missing out or not participating in the rest of the forum, just because there is a Ladies section? I intend to look at both.

Not all men (or women) have a particular interest in riding in Cambridge, I suspect a lot more men would have an interest in women.

They are??? Name names/Point them in my direction please.

I've been lurking for ages - years not months - before posting on here. It was only the viewing of ladies rides that finally got me to register.

I'd like a sub forum for women's stuff but let the men (nice ones, preferably single, who like building bikes for other people) to participate too. I have a number of questions, none of which have been answered by searching, which address the ladies only.

It could also be an ultimate reference centre for anything ladies... for example, I'm looking for a new bike...i've been through all the OTP links but all of the ladies single speeds seem to be either £1000 or something your nan used to cycle.

Are there enough rides/events, etc that we can have a women's sub forum?

I think that's a great idea!

I would find that really helpful for us newbies too. There are so many questions I want to ask, like which bikes are each of you ladies riding?

According to PopBitch it looks like Rupert Everett got caught....

Rupert the beard <<
Everyone knows his name (and bike)
Ever seen a cyclist get in trouble for
running a red light in London? No, nor us.
So a rather beardy-looking Rupert Everett can
feel himself to be somewhat unlucky that it
happened to him this morning. And even more
unlucky for Rupert? It happened right outside
Heat magazine's office. Oops.