I mean, come on...
Dec. 19, 2008 Filed in: Personal
How many times have you gone to a bicycle race and witnessed something like the picture above? Exactly. If you haven’t heard, there was a fight that damaged alot of expensive bikes and the reputation of bicycle races everywhere at the Kansas City CycloCross Nationals recently (Story here on VeloNews). Behavior like this just doesn’t happen at cycling events. I’m not saying we’re all perfect. We’re far from it. Sure, the aggression gets high during the race and, I’ve been told that as we’re whizzing by during the race, spectators can hear us sometimes exchanging not so nice words from within the peleton. Racers are jockeying for postion, trying to grab a line...it happens. But an all out brawl after a race from a heckler is just crazy and wrong.
Hopefully we’ll all learn a little something from this and people who go to bike races will exhibit better behavior so our sport doesn’t sink to a new level. I mean, don’t we have enough problems from all the doping already?
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