Evelyn Hamilton has to be my cycling hero not only (amongst other achievements) did she cycle 100 miles every day for a 100 days ‘to prove that women could equal men in physical fitness and endurance’ but she was also a style icon.

Until now I’ve only managed to access pictures of her from places like the wonderful National Cycling Archive in Coventry. To my joy Jack Thurston from the Bike Show sent me these links a couple of days ago of Evelyn in action on film. I can’t embed them but here are the links. Absolutely worth a click of not just for the well spoken English man advising us that ‘cycling no handed is about as clever as giving a balloon to a hedgehog‘ absolutely classic!

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=36238

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=6215

We’d like to know who your cycling heroines are. Soon I’ll be running a competition with the Cycle Show to to find out so get thinking and watch this space for more details…