Alfonsina Morini - the only woman to ride in the Giro d'ITalia

[mimitabby]

the link does but non of the photos show up


http://www.thebikezone.org.uk/thebik...rylburton.html
this link has her photos.

[tattiefritter]

thanks for that link mimitabby, the pictures in my link didn't work for me either. She did look a fit woman

[thekarens]

What an awesome story and her first husband was pretty cool for the times too.

Nice job on the translation. Thanks for sharing!

[rebeccaC]

It really is hard to find information about Female bicyclists from the past.
If someone here knows french, they might look up the french racing scene
which apparently in the 20's or 30's had women racing bikes.

Thanks for the original post!!!!

1926 French Women’s cycling championship sprints

British Pathe has a few interesting historical clips of early 20th century women's cycling.