
this is Hanka Kupfernagel of Germany, the women's world cyclocross champ. the pic is from a fashion show during a team presentation last week (in belgium). a fashion show and bikes? ya, thats what i thought. check it out.

'never again during the remainder of his journey to San Francisco would he equal or surpass this day's eighty-eight-mile effort. furthermore, never again on the trip would he encounter roads as fine as those he met in the Cornhusker state. riding through Wyoming and every state or territory thereafter, Nellis would long for the "excellent paths" of Nebraska.' - An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887