Bike Quiz for Ed

Are you kidding me!!!

What does this useless equipment discussion have to do with managing the sport?

What an idiot.

Do you think threshold training and the like was just invented. I did all this stuff at University of Quebec when I rode for the Quebec Provincial Team and on the US Olmpic Development Team in Colorado Springs 20 years ago. They measured and probed us back them taking blood samples while hooked up to the mask etc., etc, I imported and sold the first sports heart rate monitiors used in Canada. (Polar). The only differnce now is in the precisoon of the equipment, its cheaper prices and smaller size.

As to what wheels and drivetrains are used in the pro tours, they use what the sponsors give them and tell you its is the best thing they have ever seen.

You are truly an idiot.

Do you think you just invented the wheel? Who do you think first tested the ZIPP wheels in North American racing? I did. Evian did. We went through box after box of failures sending them back and getting new protypes.

You have no clue.

Has equipment changed that much since the last time I organazed the CDN National Championships and the World Road Championships in 2003!

Fausto Coppied said:

Are you kidding me!!!

What does this useless equipment discussion have to do with managing the sport?

What an idiot.

Do you think threshold training and the like was just invented. I did all this stuff at University of Quebec when I rode for the Quebec Provincial Team and on the US Olmpic Development Team in Colorado Springs 20 years ago. They measured and probed us back them taking blood samples while hooked up to the mask etc., etc, I imported and sold the first sports heart rate monitiors used in Canada. (Polar). The only differnce now is in the precisoon of the equipment, its cheaper prices and smaller size.

As to what wheels and drivetrains are used in the pro tours, they use what the sponsors give them and tell you its is the best thing they have ever seen.

You are truly an idiot.

Do you think you just invented the wheel? Who do you think first tested the ZIPP wheels in North American racing? I did. Evian did. We went through box after box of failures sending them back and getting new protypes.

You have no clue.

Has equipment changed that much since the last time I organazed the CDN National Championships and the World Road Championships in 2003!

Yes equipment has changed that much.

So in otherwords you don't know. How embarassing. And you think you can play a role in cycling. Aren't you one who say put people who know the sport into positions of power in CCA. Yet you don't know these basic things.

Cycling is an equipement sport, if you don't know basic equipement you don't know the stuff.

I like how you say
"As to what wheels and drivetrains are used in the pro tours, they use what the sponsors give them and tell you its is the best thing they have ever seen."

That certainly not is the case now. Go read up on what Saunier Duval had to say about their SRAM drivetrains this year.

You might know 20 year old stuff but you know anything about todays equipement. Just as you don't know anything about the modern racing world.

You truly are sad and pathetic.

Have you even ridden a bike in the last decade?

I ride a road bike twice to three times a week about an hour to an hour a half a day.

Equipment had not change that much in four years.

Finally, being up on the latest technical specs of cranks or spoke lengths does not help you manage the sport.

You can be damn sure Lorraine Lafreniere in charge of the CCA doesn't have a clue about even the basic bike tech stuff.

Part of the CCA and Canadian cycling problem is that they cannot find sponsor out of the sport.

Do you think you need to communicate cranksets and rims to an healthcare company or insurance company looking for a sports sponsorhsip deal?

Get real.

Fausto Coppied said:

Do you think you need to communicate cranksets and rims to an healthcare company or insurance company looking for a sports sponsorhsip deal?

You don't need to know anything about racing, training, equipment, nutritions, old stars or anything cycling or sports related to do this. OK maybe a little bit but you don't need to be an old cycling guru or anything like that. Good marketing person can do his/her job...good sales person who has previous experience in home entertainment could sell cycling to sponsors. You just need to know what you can offer to sponsors.

EDIT: My last job before moving here was at a BIG insurance company where I was working as a marketing director. I didn't know anything about insurance stuff before I started. I just had studied B2B marketing and company just threw me into deep end with that and expected me to learn how to swim. Lorraine whoever should have learnt to swim...if she can't do that then someone should help her out the water.

Fausto Coppied said:

I ride a road bike twice to three times a week about an hour to an hour a half a day.

Equipment had not change that much in four years.

Finally, being up on the latest technical specs of cranks or spoke lengths does not help you manage the sport.

You can be damn sure Lorraine Lafreniere in charge of the CCA doesn't have a clue about even the basic bike tech stuff.

Part of the CCA and Canadian cycling problem is that they cannot find sponsor out of the sport.

Do you think you need to communicate cranksets and rims to an healthcare company or insurance company looking for a sports sponsorhsip deal?

Get real.

Sure, you ride I believe you.

For your information half the questions I asked you where relating to trainning and athlete developement. But you wouldn't know anything about that.

Your right about Laorraine. BTW I totally agree with you about the CCA being seriously screwed up. Actually you have no idea on how bad it actually is, try being currently involved with them. The stories I could tell you are crazy.

However that doesn't change the fact that you are not qualified to work at the CCA. I have no doubt that current situation would be much worse if you were involved.

Can it be much worse, Coward?

Fausto Coppied said:

Can it be much worse, Coward?

Better to be coward then incompetent. Or in your case room temperature IQ.

I like how you math works 10*40 000 = 300 000. A grade 6 math class would light you up like a Christmas tree.

Lets look at the facts here.

1. You are crazy. Known to threaten people, you have had the police arrest you. Only an idiot or really big person with a big stick would let you know who they are.

2. Most people in the cycling community think you are an idiot and they are right.

3. Your cycling experience is at best 5 years old (but you were fired for incompetence from that job). In reality is 20 years old and pretty well meaningless.

4. You know nothing about modern training, or racing. Nothing at all.

5. Rob Jones is very good at writing, something that you are not. (I am pretty bad at it too, so don't feel too bad). When he say all thing considering the CCA is doing a good job, the words differ from meaning. I know this is beyond your competence level.

As for me. I have managed a teams none at the scale that you have. To tell you truth I am not a team manager, I don't have the organizational skills. However my experience in other aspects of cycling dwarfs yours.

I have 20 years of racing experience. I have raced nationals in every displine.

-BMX as a kid

-Downhill as a Junior (this is what I went to worlds for, juniors were pretty slow back then)

-Elite XC as an espoir and senior

-Road as an espoir and senior

-Track as a senior

-Cross as a senior

Currently I make my way as a cycling coach. I coach Canadian and International cyclist.

My athletes are

- national champions

- have numerous victories at national and international competitions in many cycling displines (including track)

I have forgotten more about cycling and training then you have ever known.

On that note I am going to sign out.

I can see you have completely lost it and I don't need to waste any more time doing what I call "Ed Baiting".

Careful you don't froth at mouth and wreck your key board you psycho!!!!

[font=Arial Unicode MS]Right![/font]

[font=Arial Unicode MS]And you think knowing about cranks is important in running the sport!!![/font]

[font=Arial Unicode MS]I think on top of being a coward, you are a liar.[/font]

[font=Arial Unicode MS]Once again your mathematic skills are very poor, July 2003 I'm organizing the world championships. That’s four years and one month, not five years. 1999 Director of the only Women's World Cup in North America brought it in $1500 under budget in just three months.[/font]

[font=Arial Unicode MS]1997, ten years ago working in California for Shaklee.[/font]

[font=Arial Unicode MS]15 years ago I sent five of my ten riders to the Olympics.[/font]

[font=Arial Unicode MS]Where do you get twenty?[/font]

[font=Arial Unicode MS]KCLW , are those Westwood's initials?[/font]

[font=Arial Unicode MS]Shouldn't you be looking for work?[/font]

[font=Arial Unicode MS]I really do not care what you think, each and every day my warnings about the failure of the CCA and the death of the sport in cycling get more accurate. Whether people want to listen and do something is up to them.[/font]

[font=Arial Unicode MS]They are warned.[/font]

[font=Arial Unicode MS]Actually when we are talking about the Canadian Cycling Association all that is left are three women in Ottawa who know very little about the sport and Remi Berube and Sean O’Donnell, that’s the CCA, now. What a joke.[/font]

[font=Arial Unicode MS]They should have listened.[/font]