Wiggle Honda Women’s Pro Cycling Team launch

SOOOOO many lovelies in one place, I would have died if I had been there, but died happy.

Were there any freebies floating around, I've been at Rochelle and the team all week for something for the auction

I'll take Laura Trott in an auction any day!

Looking good gals and all the best for the forthcoming season!

Looks good, best of luck with the new season girls!

Props to Wiggle and Honda for sponsoring this and of course the hard work of Rochelle Gilmore.

Perhaps all that is needed now is for ITV4 to weigh in and say they wil give live or even highlighted coverage of a couple of day races this year?

Could we please do without the "lovelies" and winks... please? It's really ever so demeaning. They're here because they're good cyclists.

Sweet mother of Jesus lawd awmighty god!

It seems like the biggest hurdle this team will face is pursuing a meaningful race calendar; the womens calendar is pretty woeful really and shame on the UCI & ASO for their piss poor attitude to womens racing.
If you look at the mens calendar, like it or not, the TDF is THE big race and until there is a resumption of the Tour Feminin and TV coverage alongside the mens race it will be difficult for womens racing to make an impact on the scale to bring it near parity with the guys.

Another occasion where I agree with Sam1. Guys, these girls are athletes, there is no need to lear over them from behind a computer like this is some kind of beauty parade. Promoting womens cycling is fantastic and it has nothing to do with looks - get over it. Get over yourselves. They deserve good salaries, good support and good teams because they are dedicated, end of story. Kudos to Wiggle and Humphrey for supporting them - a lot of people give online business' a whole load of grief but how many of them have stuck their hand in their pockets and done anything other than support a bunch of old gits racing around an old airfield. Ahead of their time (well, not quite, but ahead of the rest of them anyway), they will rightly reap the rewards if this encourages women's participation in the sport.

Leering is undignified but it is important that the athletes are 'attractive'. Not for dirty-old-men but for young women - teenage girls will not pursue a sport they consider masculine or devoid of glamour. So many drop out at 14 - 16 years when they are lost by the sport but also fail to pick up the life-long benefits that exercise brings.

Wow take it easy with the serious faces.

So it's completely fine to look at women's volleyball that way but cycling "Oh noes", we be all respecteful n shit.

Get over it, bro.

I hope they're paying them a decent salary and bonus scheme.

It is not about the ladies: Nice team bikes.

I like it when they run on the same day as the men, it is like getting two races for the waiting time of one.

The rider you didn't name is called Amy Roberts.
Standing next to Jo Rowsell.
Great reporting. Not.

Not to rain on everyone's party, but they could use a nutritionist and weight control program. Their physiques don't represent that of a competitive cyclist.

FFS... 2013 and misogynist cnuts still think it's ok to churn out this shite. Mmmm... Lovely laydeez! I wonder why women's racing isn't been taken seriously.

How did this article get written and published without any mention of Giorgia Bronzini?

Fabulous to see serious budgets and professional organisation coming to women's cycling, and totally appropriate that the team attract that kind of talent. But Olympic track palmares count for nil on the road.

And consigned to an anonymous footnote is the two-time world road champion.

Would anyone report on a BMC team launch and forget to mention Phillipe Gilbert?

Really hope we can get some womens' racing alongside the mens' coverage this yeah. Unlikely, but I guess having a really solid, hopefully successful British team will encourage media outlets to devote more time to this side of the sport in the UK at the very least.

Some of the comments here make really sad reading, by the way. I thought cycling attracted people who had a little more respect for each other. I think it would be best if the misogyny was eliminated and a little more respect was shown to women athletes.

Miss Trott could have worn the same trainers as everyone else!

And I'm not leering... honestly.

To all of the female responders who are so desperately dosed up on Political Correctness and what is and what is not permissible in this "repressed" age where no one dare say anything remotely complimentary to any female for fear of getting sued - please get off your soap boxes!!! To most of us blokes, it's boring, offensive and unnecessary!

Do you really think these girls mind being ogled at and admired for their obvious sexual charm and physical beauty????? Really???? You need to see someone.

Many of the team are stunningly attractive and they work so hard to be great athletes and manage to look good to boot. They deserve to be admired and feted and - like it or not - men will find them highly desirable. Live with it and for Christ's sake stop carping.

Pendleton never ever hid her light under bushel. Dya really think Laura Trott complains when she gets wolf whistled while on her bike, or in the street? Will Jo Rowsell kick up a fuss when someone tells her she's pretty?? - and she is!

Nothing that guys have posted here is offensive. That's the mark and that's the line.

BIG UP for the ladies. I think it's fantastic and I really hope it moves Ladies Pro Cycling to a whole new level - without, of course, the wholly wrong and absolutely unnecessary lascivious lust. So steady on boys - admire them nicely as attractive professional athletes and keep lewdness in its proper place. And that ain't here.

I'm a chap actually. I find women very attractive. In fact, I'm married to one and I think she's WELL FIT.
But these are racing cyclists and their attractiveness is smashing, but not the point. When you walk into into a meeting to talk profit and loss,are people there to admire your perfectly sculpted moobs or your acumen? Well maybe both (phoarrr) but the acumen is the one you should be judged on.

But hell, you think wolf whistling is ok, so trying to explain is probably a bit pointless. X

Comm88, if you comments are serious, you really need to get a grip of yourself.

Actually, perhaps you do, that would explain the tone of them.