FLCC> The Boorish Side of Bike Racing

[Dan Timmerman]

While OCC goes off on a debate about whether bike racers are bigger jerks 
than football players, I'll get back to the real point.

I'll be the first to admit that Owasco Stage Race has some real issues with 
instruction to volunteers or lack of experienced volunteers or something 
along those lines. Yeah, it pisses me off too but you can't yell at 
volunteers. You can't yell at the promoter either really. He's putting on a 
race for you and probably not getting much back. It needs to be discussed 
with him so he can fix the problems. You just have to keep in mind the fact 
that most of these people are doing you a favor before you start yelling at 
them.

Let me clear something else up everyone. For some reason there is a some 
sort of hidden notion that there is someone going around picking up all your 
garbage, because your in a bike race. It's not the case, especially at a 
local race like Owasco. I know you all do it. Even the unsuspecting, nice 
guy who normally is opposed to littering will, for some reason do it in a 
bike race. Just put it back in your pocket. You reached back there to get it 
out, you can reach back and put it back in. Yeah, it gets a little gel on 
your jersey, so what. Your hopefully going to wash it after doing a race in 
it anyway. Just don't do it.

Dan Timmerman

>From: "Eddie Luban" <eluban at verizon.net>
>To: occ at lists.upstate.edu, fLCC at icycle.org
>Subject: FLCC> The Boorish Side of Bike Racing
>Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:03:45 -0400
>
>seen/heard from the wheel van during yesterday's Oswasco Stage Race
>Cat.4/5 road race:
>
>1.  persistent and repeated riding on the wrong side of the yellow line
>
>2.  littering, and I'm not talking about banana peels
>
>3.  yelling and cursing at the WHEEL VAN, which was behind the riders,
>after the marshals and pace car led the field the wrong way
>
>4.  friends/family driving behind the field (that in itself is a no-no), 
>pulling
>out across the yellow line, driving on the wrong side of the road, cutting
>back in between the field and the wheel van
>
>5.  cursing at the driver and official in the wheel van when a rider 
>couldn't
>get the wheel he needed
>
>While it was only a small minority of the riders who were responsible for
>this stuff, I could see how their actions could taint the whole race.  No
>wonder the civilian population finds us annoying, to say the least.
>
>Eddie Luban
>
>
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