Once during an Etape my wife and I climbed the Aubisque and the crowd lining the road to cheer for the husbands or brothers or friends became frenzied at seeing a woman pass so many men and began closing in on us, scrambling at us and screaming, ‘Salut, femme! Allez, madame! Courage [drawn out and pronounced in two distinct syllables, cour-ahge]! Femme! Allez Femme! Bon something something femme!’
I love the idea of riding along some day and having spectators cheer like that. Also, it sounds like a new catchphrase for our women’s cycling team.
Source: bicycling.com
