Katie Comptons contract with PlanetBike not renewed

[OakLeaf]

This whole topic was brought up to bring attention to an area that I thought everyone would have a concern about. I'm definitely concerned about equal pay for EVERYONE!!

However, it seems that we are concentrating on behavior issues, and whether we all approve or disapprove. Some say it's not professional, have you ever watched a professional team sport? They trash talk with opponents and teammates all the time! And I don't see anyone bringing up that subject anywhere online. So, let's just get back to the subject at hand. What can each of us do to encourage sponsers/employers to pay everyone equally? Afterall, that is why this subject was brought up in the first place.

What can each of us do? Not use words denoting "female" as insults, to begin with. You want to trash talk someone, call them "dog" or "slug" or "snail" or ANYTHING but "p******" or "ladies" or the like.

[tulip]

I don't know who Katie Compton is. I don't know who any of the men CX racers are, either. I do know what Planet Bike is and I have their fenders.

If I need some fenders, and I go to a bike shop to get some, and they have stopped carrying Planet Bike fenders because they no longer sponsor some racer I've never heard of (for reasons that we just don't know), that shop better have some alternate fenders to sell me. Otherwise, I'll get my fenders elsewhere.

And yes, I'm a former racer. I raced road and mtb in the 1980s. Women's racing has been "coming into its own" for decades. As far as I can tell, it's not making much progress.

Protesting by refusing to carry a product doesn't seem to make much sense. Instead, why not have your shop sponsor Ms. Compton? Even a little bit. That way, you could have pictures of her in your shop, and thereby educate your customers on the elites of CX racing while supporting a top-class racer.