"Some of the girls I race against are quite masculine and have very low voices and facial hair..."

That's odd. Some of the guys I race against are quite feminine, have squeaky voices and no hair anywhere. That's the topsy turvy world of cycling for you.

I think all Brits can be proud of those legs.

lol topsy turver indeed, shes very hot, I dont think they look very muscular, not to the manly extent, they look as nice as any model iv ever seen, an Olympian and a model in one she should be proud.

Hellooooooooooooo, now why arnt there any women cyclists like that about?

I'd rather see a healthy athletic body than a skinny anorexic one any day.

She looks great, and why not promote and herself with a bit of glamour as well as her sporting acheivements.

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Victoria Pendleton is just gorgeous!!

what a great role model for women full stop. Sexy, smart, athletic, multiple world champ and because of all these highly loved by cycling fans over the globe.

But wow those are some great photo's.

'Hellooooooooooooo, now why arnt there any women cyclists like that about?'

Err, she is one?

Where are the pictures of Chris Hoy in his underpants?

A shame that she has to further her career that way and can't earn as much as he does by cycling....

She looks quite normal to me, althletic, and I think, attractive. That still doesn't change the fact that it's sad that if you're female, the fact that you are female and can therefore be used to sell newspapers and magazines is always going to be more important than all of you're achievements.

Blonde... get of that soap box..... Nothing like a jealousy

I reckon she's a good role model for young women. We need more athletic women to be used in fashion etc.

My daughter is anxious about her legs which are well muscled from dancing and cycling because all her mates are unfit skinny things. I'm going to show her these pics.

Blonde.

Don't tell me that Chris Hoy etc do not 'pose' to a degree wearing tight shirts and shorts and showing off their physique. Just by posing like this does not take away from her acheivements either, lets be homest it might bring her to a wider audience. Who says this earns her more money than her cycling anyway? She has had the photo offers because riding made her famous, not the other way around. Can you blame her for cashing in on some of that? She seems a fiercely determined woman and can hardly be seen to be undermined by those pictures (which are more modest than many women wear to go out on a Friday night!). Good for her, she has done the shoot when she is not some fading star desperate for attention but when at the top of her game.

Maybe it says to some people, ' I'm a winner, I train my body hard and I'm still attractive'. Not a bad message for youg athletes of all sexes.

This is the very reason I want to get my girlfriend into cycling.

Um,...I best not tell her that I've been looking at these pics though,...um,....yeah. Might get myself into trouble....Vicky P is sooo beautiful!

p.s. To Vicky P: x

Epicyclo, teenage anxiety is always a waste of all those years! Hope she eventually realises that the person she is and what she has achieved is more important than her pegs, which no doubt look great anyway, but showing her airbrushed photos of made-up and carefully posed women probably won't help with self esteem. Ask her why she thinks he legs "ought" to look any different from how they do.

By the way, I have done naked (totally naked and semi) photo shoots (with Penny Farthings and other old bikes) myself (although there was no money in it for me - not even my train ticket!), but that's another story....

She could have me if she played her cards right...Lucky, lucky lady!

I was going to post something witty, erudite and insightful.

However I can only manage a low growly noise

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Helmet crushing legs, heaven!

Anyone who says this is below her is forgetting that she's a classy and intelligent lady. I would rather see her than any of the skinny, vapid and nasty little women the lads at work oggle at who usually appear.

Regardless of social acceptability I think this will make some think "...oh cycling, I might try that..?" We do after all have a severe lack of female cyclists in the UK compared to other parts of Europe. Only 1 in 5 are female iirc.

Look back at other girls [or should I say ladies] from other sports most [not all] match up with Vicky and posed and if this pose buts bums on saddles then that is another aspect of her talent and charm [s] keep winning and posing.

For this young lady an MBE was not enough.

"the sort of legs that could, should you inadvertently find yourself in a sexual embrace with the woman, kill you".

What a way to go though!

"Some of the girls I race against are quite masculine and have very low voices and facial hair..."

How strange, both of those masculine features are side effects of Steroids?

Don't see what all the fuss is about, average for FHM

YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rockin

There is another young lady cyclist on the British Cycling ODP who i think has potential to be good as VP and being shallow she is better looking :)

there are now plenty girls wanting to cycle and VP has been a catalyst here. I wish I was a wee bit younger. It was Yvonne McGregor in my day hee hee

Pretty gorgeous but there other babes in cycling. Homer J.....that wasn't a very intelligent comment seen as she does cycling and is a model..........way above average anyway!

She can sit on my crossbar anyday.

Hubba hubba. I'm sorry but when you are that hot you have a responsibility to share it with the world. It's her body and she should be free to do whatever she likes with it. I can't understand these hackneyed arguements about women degrading themselves by taking there clothes off. This arguement has been running for 40 years and still doesn't hold any water.

Sorry berkan, but is the complete contradiction of these two statements of yours not entirely obvious?

"I'm sorry but when you are that hot you have a responsibility to share it with the world. It's her body and she should be free to do whatever she likes with it."

This does rather highlight the problems that are inherent when women are still assessed fundamentally in terms of their appearance. Let me illustrate this with a telling example. In spring 2008, after Vicky had won three gold medals in the previous year's world championships, the Guardian wrote this about her:

"Pendleton has rocketed from obscurity to cover-girl status in the 12 months since she took three gold medals in Mallorca, but this week she has to show she can deliver on the track as well as strike sultry poses for magazines."

Does that sound like the kind of thing that would be written about a male cyclist that had those achievements behind him? And this is the Guardian, it's not even the Daily Mail.

Blonde, thanks for telling it like it is.