Holiday Gift Idea? 2014 Cyclepassion Calendar Available Now

Come on, ladies. There’s nothing “tasteful” about this shoot. You’re too badass for this trash. Demand respect from your performance, not from how you look in tacky makeup and heels.

Incredibly lame post. When is the bike industry going to stop objectifying women like the rest of our society?

Here is a worthwhile read:

http://www.outdoorresearch.com/blog/stories/are-you-hot-skilled-or-hot-and-skilled-2

ATM?! i think that’s a bit much for a calendar… hard to- i mean difficult to lay out the sequence of events in that medium too.

Thanks for the link Chris,

It’s always nice to be reminded some people still thinks of women as humans instead of pieces of meat. Thanks bike rumor and all you other sexist pricks for the douche comments and dehumanizing articles.

Oh please. Nobody forced these women into doing these shoots. Who’s really being used here? The models or the guys paying $50 for a calendar? Give me a break.

Not interested in this at all. In a day where the pro ladies are fighting for equal payouts and the amateur ladies are fighting to grow their field size while fighting a stereotype that cycling is 100% testosterone, this trash sets them backwards years, if not decades.

Bikerumor, you’re better than this.

Feminists of bikerumor, please get over yourselves. The people talking about objectifying women and setting them back in life is laughable. Betcha they weren’t forced to do this shoot, and even got paid for it.

I think it’s awesome to see this type of calendar. Athletes work damn hard to keep themselves in shape, why is it wrong to show that off? If it were a bunch of male athletes with their shirts off showing all kinds of abs, nobody would be complaining.

Is every woman competing hot enough to be in the calendar? Technically, yes! The focal point in these pictures is not the face, so I don’t think they chose those girls for their ‘natural beauty’. What I’m looking at is a bunch of hot bodies that they WORKED for. And because other women that may not have a nice body whine and complain about it, these hot girls shouldn’t be allowed to pose for a calendar?

You are talking about a world where women compete to win races. So I guess all those women that tried to win should get the same prize and reward money as the winner? Nobody should be better than anyone else on the track, just like nobody should be hotter than anyone else and allowed to pose in a calendar??

And I bet those women that don’t want to be in the calendar AREN’T IN THE CALENDAR! But according to you, they should get paid the same as the women that are.

I love that so many guys stick up for a world where women aren’t objectified & I like my bike porn to be just bikes too. However, I have to say it’s a free world, sometimes you just have to accept that we are all different. I am certain that if any of these girls didn’t want to do this, even at the cost of financing their racing career (which we all admit isn’t always easy), Im telling ya, they just wouldn’t do it. End of! Someone mentioned in comment that they weren’t necessarily the prettiest girls from the industry but that they have been selected for the sheer quality of their bodies & at the end of the day, that’s what they are, high quality athletes just enjoying the bodies that they’ve worked so hard for & reaping a little reward at the same time. If that’s what they want to do, then I say it’s their body, their life. Nobody bats an eye at the near naked calendars of someone like David Beckham- why is it titillation when it’s for women to look at but it’s sordid if it’s of a woman. I’m secure enough in myself to let others be & secure enough in my relationship to get a calendar for my partner’s birthday. If anything these girls inspire me to want to up my own game & what’s wrong with that?