FLCC> Pink Slipper

[Steve Edgar]

> Rumor has it that Steve Edgar has tried to disguise his Suzuki 650  
> to look like a
> simple road bike.  He has offered a lead-out to the highest bidder.

For a small extra fee I'll bring the track bike ...

http://homepage.mac.com/steve.edgar/SteveAtMidO.jpg

Actually, I'm hoping someone else will drive it, and *I'll* hang on.

Just to date myself, I remember the first Pink Slipper.  Then junior  
rider Lee Holman, aka Bopper, showed up with the "slipper", and the  
rest, as they say, is history.  (Lee was quite the character, and was  
great to travel with.)

Who will win this year?  Dan has been out.  Ryan is the current  
strong man.  There are a group of geezers who are going pretty fast.   
Should be good.

See you all there.

-- Steve.

On Sep 11, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Glenn Swan wrote:

> 	Most of you know the story...but for those who are new to Ithaca  
> and the
> Tuesday night experience, here's a little background on the Pink  
> Slipper.
> Back in the early 80's there was a young man who was commonly known as
> "Bopper" who regularly did the Tuesday night races. He had a thing  
> about
> pink, with a pink jersey, pink handlebar tape, and often some socks  
> with
> pink. We gave him good-natured grief about his color. Late in the  
> summer he
> arrived at the race with a woman's pink, high heeled sandal hanging  
> from
> his handlebar. He had found it on the roadside on the way to the  
> event. We
> decided that whoever won that night's race would receive the  
> sandal. For
> fun we decided that whoever won the final race of the summer would  
> get to
> keep the sandal over the winter. The winner's name was put on the  
> heel of
> the footwear and the next year we dug it out and put that year's  
> winner's
> name on the heel too. The tradition has continued for over 20 years  
> now
> !  There are some famous names that appear once or many times,  
> including
> riders who have won national and world titles and riders who have  
> gone pro.
> 	The Tour de France has its yellow jersey. The Giro d'Italia has  
> its Maglia
> Rosa. We have our Pink Slipper. As a measure of its prestige, you  
> may note
> that although such greats as Armstrong and Hinault and Merckx have won
> multiple Tours de France, they have never succeeded at conquering  
> the Pink
> Slipper. I kid you not, the Pink Slipper has appeared on the race  
> resumes
> of riders trying to land positions on notable teams ! Riders will  
> go to
> great lengths to try to win the race. Brian Doyon succeeded one  
> year on the
> B-Dale course by sprinting head-on into oncoming traffic while  
> others dove
> for safety. It is rumored that some riders may have sacrificed  
> years of
> their useful life ingesting performance enhancing drugs just too  
> have a
> chance at acquiring the coveted footwear. In accordance with the  
> current
> UCI stand on keeping the integrity of the sport intact, the winner  
> of this
> year's event will have to pee into a cup after the race. Everyone  
> else will
> act as witnesses. The cup will then be divided into "A" and "B"  
> samples and
> thrown away.
> 	The spirit of Tuesday Night races is that while we race, we  
> consider it to
> be the most important race in the world, and we race hard and fair.  
> What we
> earn that is of value is our honor and the respect of our peers. As  
> soon as
> the race is complete, the results are irrelevant, and we realize  
> that in
> the view of the rest of the world, the race is truly of no  
> significance.
> The respect we share with our peers is the only outcome of value.  
> The Pink
> Slipper (and Brown Birk) represent this contradiction, as we covet  
> those
> prizes and we race hard and suffer dearly for them, but even as we  
> receive
> them we laugh at the utter worthlessness of the prize and know that  
> without
> what we give to each other, there is no reason to come out and race  
> each
> week and each year.
> 	Don't think that you can drink beer tonight and ingest huge doses of
> testosterone in order to win the slipper.......I have already  
> cornered the
> market on the testosterone, so you'll have to find another  
> drug.....Rumor
> has it that Steve Edgar has tried to disguise his Suzuki 650 to  
> look like a
> simple road bike.  He has offered a lead-out to the highest bidder.
> ..Meanwhile it has leaked out Mark Rishniw's absence from the  
> racing scene
> most of the summer has been the result of a secret training program  
> that
> has been directed by a doctor at the Vet School. Judging by the  
> hair on his
> legs I'm worried that there are "veterinary" treatments involved in  
> this
> program. Ryan Morris was across the border over the weekend putting
> together a select team (Team Canada) but it is expected that the  
> new Bush
> administration border policies will prevent most of them from gaining
> access to the US. Elsewhere the Cornell team is known to be  
> preparing a
> team entry, but few give captain Steve Frattini's squad much of a  
> chance,
> as they are planning to all use single speed track bikes with no
> brakes.  If they show up, the race committee is expected to choose  
> a course
> featuring a descent of Hunt Hill and a finish atop Mt. (un)  
> Pleasant, just
> to reduce the likelihood of Cornell students stealing the locals'
> thunder....The silver fox, Ernie Bayles has been staying out of the
> limelight since his victory at the Thater races in Binghamton,  
> hoping that
> others will be so busy attacking each other that he will quietly be  
> able to
> steal the race. He has been heard quoting Mark Twain, who said  
> something to
> the effect of, "Youth and enthusiasm are no match for old age and  
> treachery !"
>
> Stay tuned !
>
>
> Glenn
>
>
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