Thursday, February 8th, 2007
If you are the kind of person who does not easily part with money then stay the hell away from my table this Sunday. I am going to have some stuff that will cause you to drop dead from a stroke if you decide not to buy.
Carbon forks, brand new
Carbon stems, also new
Lots of shoes, mostly new and some used
Tonz of clothing, pro team and regular type
An ever loving crap load of cycling videos, some Famous and some bootleg
A pile of chainrings including a 130mm 60 tooth ring to keep up with Timmer
Chains, new
MTB tires, new
Campy cassettes, derailleurs and brake calipers in various states of disarray
Giro Pnuemo helmet
A few boxes of spokes
A few saddles
Seatpost
and the best of all, a box of stuff marked with the letters:
F
R
E
E
I will be there early. You should be too if you don’t want to miss out on the coolest junque.
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
How many of you recycle printer ink cartridges? It seems like a good idea.
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
So much for the TrimSpa diet…
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
OK, so Tour of 10,000 Lakes is kaput. Who’s fault is it?
Probably yours. Let’s find out.
• Single or married with no children under 5 years old?
• Work regular hours at a regular job?
• Raced in local bike races for over 5 years?
• Train more than 5 hours a week?
• Never promoted a bike race yourself?
• Never volunteered at a bike race yourself?
• Never been a USA Cycling official yourself?
Answered “yes” to all these questions? Congratulations, it is all your fault that T10KL got cancelled.
I don’t blame Kevin Lennon for pulling the plug. He organized this event for a number of years and he’s not a professional race promoter. As far as I am concerned he has given a lot more back to the local racing community than he has taken. Bravo Kevin and thank you.
But an event like this, any event, needs one guy to be in charge. Without one guy in charge it’s just not going to happen.
Kevin has the right to veto any changes to his event if he is still involved. If you want to call the event “Tour of 10,000 Lakes” then you have to do things Kevin’s way. If you don’t want to do things Kevin’s way then start your own stage race and call it “Le Grand Fromage” and run it how ever you want. You could have even had it on the same weekend since T10KL is cancelled.
What you can’t do is complain about the race being cancelled if you answered yes to all the questions above.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s my fault too. I can answer “yes” to a few of those questions and I did nothing to keep T10KL from getting cancelled in 2007. Ten years ago I may have stepped up, ten years from now I may be able to step up. But it’s not happening for me now. So I am not going to complain about it.
We are all busy. Credit goes out to those who are busy and still find the time to give back to their community.
Are you complaining about it? Maybe you should do something about it.
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
He says “no Tour for me” before France says “no Tour for you.”
His lawyers say the samples were mislabelled by the French laboratory which conducted the tests, the testing process was unreliable and the rider never in fact tested positive.
Never tested positive twice, that is.
The mislabeling argument is garbage, so let the attack on science continue.
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