At this point Jacquie asks me to point out that she has her own blog, helped in setting that up by Chris Hill, an Edinburgh-based cyclist, and co-founder of the famed Bike Co-Op. Once you hit the blog you can't help but notice WOMBATS. It probably doesn't need explaining that we're not talking here about the small furry creature, but rather the 'Women's Mountain Bike & Tea Society', and yet another idea that was probably ahead of its time.

This was a women's club that simply served to further Jacquie's reach into promoting cycling and getting people into the activity both as a sport, pastime and daily mode of transport. In the video mentioned earlier one member recounts to the audience an early ride with Jacquie towing her up by way of a bungee cord between the two bikes. And the tea link isn't just there to complete an amusing acronym:

"I knew that by assuming a hilarious club name (I really do fancy tea as a morning drink, probably a legacy of my crazy Canadian mum) the 'serious' riders would probably not be interested, and definitely it was a 'man-proofing' technique. If you yell 'tea party!" in a room crowded with guys they'll stampede out. EXCEPT NOT IN UK!! when I came here in 1985, I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. The boys liked tea!"

So what is coming up for Jacquie? A trip to Edinburgh is (hopefully) in the offing to tie in with Bike Week and the Bike Film Festival there. And carrying on trying to wave magic wand to improve cycling (though she admits that even hell (also known as Newark New Jersey) is fun on a bike).

Wishes for that future include frankly conservative hopes for 2% of national transport budgets and 2% of the public health budgets to be put towards cycling infrastructure, awareness programs and bike education in schools.

There is also a particular pragmatic wish, "Regulate the bicycle industry in such a way that frivolous fads (ever more gears, more inches of travel, more stupid non-improvements that are designed to fail within a certain period) are deemed 'wanton waste' of earth's resources. From now on: repairable, well-made, interchangeable, long-run componentry."

And so Jacquie will carry on cycling, carry on competing, and carry on promoting cycling as best she can and wherever she can. Apparently in Marin Co cycling counts as a suicidal tendency and it is, in her words, "... The Land of the Busy Person on the Phone in the SUV."

For Jacquie, for the WOMBATS, and for mountain biking fans, there is plenty more still to see and do, especially if "some creative race promoter will want a SIXTY year old lady on the start line."