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  1. Did the UCI mandate requiring helmet use improve the safety and welfare
    of the riders more than the regulations they have imposed around
    doping. Or is it just as bogus as the "drug" rules. After all they
    claim their number one concern is rider safety and now mandate helmet
    usage during races, but not when the riders are off training or riding
    to a race (just look at the photos). Why not mandate that the racer
    must wear their helmets when training and let the riders dope, or give
    the riders a choice. You safety factor is x, so you can dope or race
    without a helmet, but not both.

    RVD

  2. Rik Van Diesel said:

    Did the UCI mandate requiring helmet use improve the safety and


    welfare

    Quoted message said:

    of the riders more than the regulations they have imposed around
    doping. Or is it just as bogus as the "drug" rules.

    <snip>

    Dumbass -

    It's been clear for a long time now. Those who don't wear helmets are
    the most likely to be dopers. Not only is it correlative, the two may
    be mutually causal, a symbiotic relationship.

    R. Chung proved the relationship in one of his analyses, building on
    the more superficial analyses of D. Connelly. Hopefully, Mr. Chung will
    post the results here again.

  3. In article <[email hidden]>, Rik

    Van Diesel said:

    Did the UCI mandate requiring helmet use improve the safety and welfare
    of the riders more than the regulations they have imposed around
    doping. Or is it just as bogus as the "drug" rules. After all they
    claim their number one concern is rider safety and now mandate helmet
    usage during races, but not when the riders are off training or riding
    to a race (just look at the photos). Why not mandate that the racer
    must wear their helmets when training and let the riders dope, or give
    the riders a choice. You safety factor is x, so you can dope or race
    without a helmet, but not both.

    If a guy dies during a bike race it's worse for the sport-more bad
    publicity. Drug rules aren't about safety. The team doctors are
    supposed to take care of the safe use of drugs and orange juice and
    British breakfast foods and dangerous stuff like that. Drug rules are
    about cheating and what is fair. Like not being allowed to use a bike
    that's too light because it's not fair to the teams that don't have the
    money for luxury items like $3000 wheelsets. At least the UCI hasn't
    gone crazy and eliminated these things from masters racing.

    -WG

  4. In article <[email hidden]>,

    warren said:

    In article <[email hidden]>, Rik

    Van Diesel said:

    Did the UCI mandate requiring helmet use improve the safety and welfare
    of the riders more than the regulations they have imposed around
    doping. Or is it just as bogus as the "drug" rules. After all they
    claim their number one concern is rider safety and now mandate helmet
    usage during races, but not when the riders are off training or riding
    to a race (just look at the photos). Why not mandate that the racer
    must wear their helmets when training and let the riders dope, or give
    the riders a choice. You safety factor is x, so you can dope or race
    without a helmet, but not both.

    If a guy dies during a bike race it's worse for the sport-more bad
    publicity. Drug rules aren't about safety. The team doctors are
    supposed to take care of the safe use of drugs and orange juice and
    British breakfast foods and dangerous stuff like that. Drug rules are
    about cheating and what is fair. Like not being allowed to use a bike
    that's too light because it's not fair to the teams that don't have the
    money for luxury items like $3000 wheelsets. At least the UCI hasn't
    gone crazy and eliminated these things from masters racing.

    -WG

    It's good to know that the UCI has some perspective in these kinds of
    issues. They know that banning masters from having $3000 wheelsets and like
    items would do major damage to the worldwide economy.

    --
    tanx,
    Howard

    A billion + 2 followups...

    remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok?

  5. "Kurgan Gringioni" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:
    Rik Van Diesel said:

    Did the UCI mandate requiring helmet use improve the safety and


    welfare

    Quoted message said:

    of the riders more than the regulations they have imposed around
    doping. Or is it just as bogus as the "drug" rules.

    <snip>

    Dumbass -

    It's been clear for a long time now. Those who don't wear helmets are
    the most likely to be dopers. Not only is it correlative, the two may
    be mutually causal, a symbiotic relationship.

    R. Chung proved the relationship in one of his analyses, building on
    the more superficial analyses of D. Connelly. Hopefully, Mr. Chung will
    post the results here again.

    Dumbass, it's a lot more complicated than that.

    bleached hair -> EPO
    bad tattoos -> nandrolone
    evil goatees -> cocaine

  6. "Rik Van Diesel" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Did the UCI mandate requiring helmet use improve the safety and welfare
    of the riders more than the regulations they have imposed around
    doping. Or is it just as bogus as the "drug" rules. After all they
    claim their number one concern is rider safety and now mandate helmet
    usage during races, but not when the riders are off training or riding
    to a race (just look at the photos). Why not mandate that the racer
    must wear their helmets when training and let the riders dope, or give
    the riders a choice. You safety factor is x, so you can dope or race
    without a helmet, but not both.

    RVD

    I believe that the helmet rule, like most things, is purely about money and
    doesn't have much to do with rider safety. No sponsor wanted to have
    pictures, or videos, of a rider dead from a head injury in their team kit
    without a helmet. Remember Kivilev? In the publics mind if the rider dies
    wearing a helmet it goes down as a tragic, but unavoidable accident. If he
    dies without a helmet it become reckless. I know that when I was involved
    in sponsorship decisions one of the decision points was thinking about what
    was the worst thing that could happen and how our brand would be affected.

  7. warren said:

    If a guy dies during a bike race it's worse for the sport-more bad
    publicity. Drug rules aren't about safety. The team doctors are
    supposed to take care of the safe use of drugs and orange juice and
    British breakfast foods and dangerous stuff like that.

    According to what I read on rbr its New Zealand breakfast foods that
    require mandatory UN sanctions.

  8. Kurgan Gringioni said:


    Dumbass -

    It's been clear for a long time now. Those who don't wear helmets are
    the most likely to be dopers. Not only is it correlative, the two may
    be mutually causal, a symbiotic relationship.

    R. Chung proved the relationship in one of his analyses, building on
    the more superficial analyses of D. Connelly. Hopefully, Mr. Chung will
    post the results here again.

    http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/temp/fat-stevie2.png

  9. "Donald Munro" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    warren said:

    If a guy dies during a bike race it's worse for the sport-more bad
    publicity. Drug rules aren't about safety. The team doctors are
    supposed to take care of the safe use of drugs and orange juice and
    British breakfast foods and dangerous stuff like that.

    According to what I read on rbr its New Zealand breakfast foods that
    require mandatory UN sanctions.


    No doubt I'll be called un-Australian by our PM for this, but Vegemite is
    actually an Australian "food product", notwithstanding the fact that it's
    owned by Kraft. I never liked it. I'll probably be prevented from
    re-entering the country now.

    Boring fact: After 16 years of being called Vegemite, the company changed
    its name to Parwill in 1928 in an attempt to boost sales. It was being
    marketed as a rival to the equally horrible British product Marmite. There
    was an ad slogan that went "If Marmite...then Parwill". It was changed back
    to Vegemite in 1935.

    Jeff

  10. 1. During race, racer tend to ride in big field at full speed while taking
    chance one normally would not take on training.
    2. During race, organizer is responsible for rule and safety, on training,
    you are, is call personal freedom.

    As a example of argument, F1 racer all wear full fireproof suit, helmet and
    5pt harness during race, bring back your argument, shouldn't everyone/racer
    wear/use the same racing outfield when driving their Audi for a milk run?

    "Rik Van Diesel" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Did the UCI mandate requiring helmet use improve the safety and welfare
    of the riders more than the regulations they have imposed around
    doping. Or is it just as bogus as the "drug" rules. After all they
    claim their number one concern is rider safety and now mandate helmet
    usage during races, but not when the riders are off training or riding
    to a race (just look at the photos). Why not mandate that the racer
    must wear their helmets when training and let the riders dope, or give
    the riders a choice. You safety factor is x, so you can dope or race
    without a helmet, but not both.

    RVD

  11. Robert Chung said:
    Kurgan Gringioni said:

    Dumbass -

    It's been clear for a long time now. Those who don't wear helmets are
    the most likely to be dopers. Not only is it correlative, the two may
    be mutually causal, a symbiotic relationship.

    R. Chung proved the relationship in one of his analyses, building on
    the more superficial analyses of D. Connelly. Hopefully, Mr. Chung will
    post the results here again.

    http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/temp/fat-stevie2.png


    I like this one:

    http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/temp/fat-vote-regression.gif

  12. Jeff Jones said:

    "Donald Munro" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    warren said:

    If a guy dies during a bike race it's worse for the sport-more bad
    publicity. Drug rules aren't about safety. The team doctors are
    supposed to take care of the safe use of drugs and orange juice and
    British breakfast foods and dangerous stuff like that.

    According to what I read on rbr its New Zealand breakfast foods that
    require mandatory UN sanctions.

    No doubt I'll be called un-Australian by our PM for this, but Vegemite is
    actually an Australian "food product", notwithstanding the fact that it's
    owned by Kraft. I never liked it. I'll probably be prevented from
    re-entering the country now.

    Boring fact: After 16 years of being called Vegemite, the company changed
    its name to Parwill in 1928 in an attempt to boost sales. It was being
    marketed as a rival to the equally horrible British product Marmite. There
    was an ad slogan that went "If Marmite...then Parwill". It was changed back
    to Vegemite in 1935.

    Jeff

    I bet I could win a contest to make something that looks and smells more
    like vomit than vomit itself. A few tablespoonfuls of Vegemite and a
    cup of orange juice in the blender. Try that for a post-ride recovery
    drink.

  13. Jeff Jones said:
    Quoted message said:

    Boring fact: After 16 years of being called Vegemite, the company changed
    its name to Parwill in 1928 in an attempt to boost sales. It was being
    marketed as a rival to the equally horrible British product Marmite. There
    was an ad slogan that went "If Marmite...then Parwill". It was changed back
    to Vegemite in 1935.

    gym gravity said:

    I bet I could win a contest to make something that looks and smells more
    like vomit than vomit itself. A few tablespoonfuls of Vegemite and a
    cup of orange juice in the blender. Try that for a post-ride recovery
    drink.

    Sounds like an ideal appetite suppressing diet shake for fat masters.

  14. gym gravity said:
    Robert Chung said:
    Kurgan Gringioni said:

    Dumbass -

    It's been clear for a long time now. Those who don't wear helmets are
    the most likely to be dopers. Not only is it correlative, the two may
    be mutually causal, a symbiotic relationship.

    R. Chung proved the relationship in one of his analyses, building on
    the more superficial analyses of D. Connelly. Hopefully, Mr. Chung
    will post the results here again.

    http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/temp/fat-stevie2.png


    I like this one:

    http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/temp/fat-vote-regression.gif

    In honor of tonight's debate:
    http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/polls/pollbias.html

  15. "gym gravity" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:


    I bet I could win a contest to make something that looks and smells more
    like vomit than vomit itself. A few tablespoonfuls of Vegemite and a
    cup of orange juice in the blender. Try that for a post-ride recovery
    drink.

    You are a very bad man.

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