My provincial cycling organization sent me my glossy quarterly magazine, and they have an interview with the High Performance Director (basically, he provides coaching for provincial teams and any promising young riders), who's a Welshman by birth.
Somebody didn't spell-check the oral interview:
"Your Favourite/Best moment in Cycling?"
"Steve Roach winning the Tour, Giro, and Worlds in 1987..."
Ah yes, Steve Roach, that good Irick lad.
Lucky for them his favourite rider wasn't Vynnohqu'rawv.
-- Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/ "I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos
My provincial cycling organization sent me my glossy quarterly magazine, and they have an interview with the High Performance Director (basically, he provides coaching for provincial teams and any promising young riders), who's a Welshman by birth.
Somebody didn't spell-check the oral interview:
"Your Favourite/Best moment in Cycling?"
"Steve Roach winning the Tour, Giro, and Worlds in 1987..."
Ah yes, Steve Roach, that good Irick lad.
Lucky for them his favourite rider wasn't Vynnohqu'rawv.
My provincial cycling organization sent me my glossy quarterly magazine, and they have an interview with the High Performance Director (basically, he provides coaching for provincial teams and any promising young riders), who's a Welshman by birth.
Somebody didn't spell-check the oral interview:
"Your Favourite/Best moment in Cycling?"
"Steve Roach winning the Tour, Giro, and Worlds in 1987..."
Ah yes, Steve Roach, that good Irick lad.
Lucky for them his favourite rider wasn't Vynnohqu'rawv.
Not yours.
(BC; the coach is Steve Wooles, and I'm quite sure he knows it's "Stephen."😉
-- Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/ "I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos
Well, I think that it would be a bit outside of the UCI's raison d'etre. They're an organization devoted to organizing bike races. Even simple cycling advocacy is left to other, more focused groups.
Horseshit
The aims of the UCI are as follows:
- regulating cycling at international level; - promoting cycling in every country throughout the world and at all levels; - organizing the World Championships for all disciplines; - encouraging friendly relations between members of the cycling family; - promoting sporting ethics and fair play; - representing the sport of cycling and defending its interests on national and international bodies; - collaborating with the International Olympic Committee with respect to Olmpic cycling events.
Our mission states that the UCI means to develop and promote all aspects of cycling. This is because cycling is more than just a competitive sport. It is also a leisure activity and an environmentally friendly means of transport.
-- Davey Crockett - No 4Q to Reply - The two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
- regulating cycling at international level; - promoting cycling in every country throughout the world and at all levels; - organizing the World Championships for all disciplines; - encouraging friendly relations between members of the cycling family; - promoting sporting ethics and fair play; - representing the sport of cycling and defending its interests on national and international bodies; - collaborating with the International Olympic Committee with respect to Olmpic cycling events.
Our mission states that the UCI means to develop and promote all aspects of cycling. This is because cycling is more than just a competitive sport. It is also a leisure activity and an environmentally friendly means of transport.
Promote, but not protect. It seems you want the UCI to provide some sort of protection (be it like a labour union, a legal advocate, whatever) to bicycle messengers but, as Ryan said, that's not its reason d'être. The UCI is a sporting body, promoting cycling at all levels (meaning cadets->pros->fatty masters), not an advocate for couriers on two wheels. The bike messengers should join the same union as Fedex and DHL if they want protection and advocacy.
Words fail me when I contemplate a Piece of [censored] who would willingly embrace SkateBoarding because there are lots of possibilities for Payola and totally ignore the Bicycle Messengers
Well, I think that it would be a bit outside of the UCI's raison d'etre. They're an organization devoted to organizing bike races. Even simple cycling advocacy is left to other, more focused groups.
Agree. But I also agree with Davey that they're being totally unprincipled in getting into the skateboard lark, which (a) isn't cycling and (b) isn't racing.
- regulating cycling at international level; - promoting cycling in every country throughout the world and at all levels; - organizing the World Championships for all disciplines; - encouraging friendly relations between members of the cycling family; - promoting sporting ethics and fair play; - representing the sport of cycling and defending its interests on national and international bodies; - collaborating with the International Olympic Committee with respect to Olmpic cycling events.
Our mission states that the UCI means to develop and promote all aspects of cycling. This is because cycling is more than just a competitive sport. It is also a leisure activity and an environmentally friendly means of transport.
Promote, but not protect. It seems you want the UCI to provide some sort of protection
Davey would be overjoyed if the UCI and affiliates would even Promote Bicycle Messengers/Messengering
Instead The [censored] at the helm -- Davey Crockett - No 4Q to Reply
Although the thought of watching Pat McQuaid drinking cheap whisky from a paper cup at an Alleycat Race is most appealing.
or appaling.
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One of the nice things about events like Single Speed Worlds and Messenger competitions is that they have evaded the UCI's clutches, and that is probably why they are still fun.
The consequences of introducing dope tests for messengers could be quite interesting (or appaling).
Although the thought of watching Pat McQuaid drinking cheap whisky from a paper cup at an Alleycat Race is most appealing.
or appaling.
Quoted message said:
One of the nice things about events like Single Speed Worlds and Messenger competitions is that they have evaded the UCI's clutches, and that is probably why they are still fun.
The consequences of introducing dope tests for messengers could be quite interesting (or appaling).
If you exclude canabis and beer, I seriously doubt that you would catch very many Messengers
-- Davey Crockett - No 4Q to Reply - The propaganda war used to justify Western policies over Kosovo was unrelenting. We were told that 500,000 ethnic Albanians had been killed there by the Serbs (miraculously we are now given a figure of around 10,000). Much was made of a 1989 speech by former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic said to call for "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo. But one has only to read the speech to realize it said the exact opposite - that it was a call for moderation in handling ethnic Albanian hostility to a justifiably stronger Serbian political presence there; the idea that the 10 percent Serbian minority there would set out deliberately to expel the large ethnic Albanian majority was patently absurd from the start. Yet that absurdity has regularly been trundled out by allegedly objective Western commentators relying heavily on the 1999 flight of ethnic Albanians to neighboring Macedonia as proof. But that flight was temporary, and came after the U.S - NATO bombing attacks, not before. Some of it was also staged.
