Quote Originally Posted by SheFly View Post
Yay, Gnat! What were you riding for a SS? I have a Kona SS cross bike that I love, and I raced it twice last season. Didn't hurt much against the geared girls, except in the final sprint .

We have a hard enough time convincing promoters here to have a spearate women's masters field, never mind a SS category!
I rock a Specialized Tricross (singlecross) with a pink BMX chain and a sticker that says "If you ride a single speed and nobody sees you, is it still cool?"

My first series of races I took it too were pretty hilly and didn't have a women's singlespeed category, so I started with the geared girls and finished DFL a bunch of times. The other option was to race with the Men's SS B's, but, you know, that also hurts the self-esteem. Now I have another crossbike (with gears!) so I can kick booties on even turf.

Every time a race *does* have a women's SS category, I gotta represent to encourage it to keep going. I wish I could do both geared and SS races, but typically they're at the same time as the other women's races.

We had a nice long conversation, the other SS women and me, about whether to gear for the climbs and spin out on the flats, or to gear for the flats and run the climbs.

-- gnat!