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Queens of Pain: Legends and rebels of cycling

Queens of Pain tells the remarkable and largely unknown tale of women`s cycle racing from the 1890`s to the early 1990`s. From the fin-de-siecle velodromes of North America to the glamour and chaos of the first women`s Tour de France, Queens of Pain offers a sweeping panorama of female racing history.Told through the lives of the great champions, its heroines include stuntwomen and speed skaters, young mothers and teenage tearaways, shop assistants and coal-delivery girls. When prejudice and officialdom denied them one stage they found another: from six-day track racing to epic place to place records, from 12-hour time trials to unofficial road races. The greatly expanded women`s racing scene of today is the direct legacy of these pioneering riders whose stories form an unbroken thread since the invention of the bicycle.

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