I was quite shocked getting into cycling after having been into climbing at how second-class we're considered. With climbing there was never an issue with getting woman-specific or smaller clothes/shoes, I was never treated differently at the gyms, and Climbing magazine seems to contain an equal proportion of men to women.

But cycling? What a difference! Tough to get clothes/bikes/shoes, mentioned as an aside in magazines, and forget about ever seeing any women's races on tv.

What's really weird is that the proportion of women to men that I see riding really isn't that different from what I saw at the climbing gym.