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Originally Posted by mickey.d
Once again, men on bicycle internet wants to decide what women want.
Because gravel is such a sad late-capiltalist dead-end fad, a grotesque simulation of real bicycle racing, it’s hard for me to have an opinion about gravel. But someone here keeps saying that the pro women are slower than the pro men, and finish far behind them… Some are suggesting for some reason that pro women should race a shorter race than pro men…
Pay more attention to the lame “sport” that is gravel racing, and you will see on the grassroots-enthusiast level decent gender parity compared to legacy disciplines, and regional mass start gravel races regularly have female overall winners, or women’s class winners that are in the top 5 overall.
My female friends that get those results are more than happy to kick as many asses as possible, especially ****ty whiny know it all
men who think they should be doing a shorter, segregated race.
It’s great that riders are trying to advocate for something… but they should be advocating for(and REGISTERING for)their local road races and xc races and cross races instead so women aren’t forced into racing gravel if they want to race against more than 2 people on race day.
Let gravel eat itself- real bike racing will benefit.
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Did you actually read the thread? Because it sure sounds like you didn't. The drive for separate starts on separate days is being driven by a pro woman. I don't think anyone in this thread has said a single word about different race distances.
What a joy you must be to share a race with...