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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