Cycling will get bigger when Americans get smarter.

In article , warren wrote:

In article
, Edward
Waffle wrote:

If you are waiting for Americans to get smarter, then cycling will never be
popular in the USA.

Consider this... As Americans continue to get fatter I'm seeing more
and more of these fatties riding their bikes on the bike trail. 45
miles of paved and shaded paths with water fountains and picnic tables
every few miles while riding next to a nice river is a good way to do
something like exercise. Perhaps there is a point where the fattie
says, "I'm 40 pounds overweight and I've got to do something about it.
Riding a bike looks easy enough and alot more comfortable than running
so I'll try that." The other interesting thing around here at least is
that in the last two years or so the proportion of those beginners that
are women has grown to about 50%.

-WG

I think we also have to lose the dumb north american idea that athletes
have to be huge muscled hulks or beer drinking bubbas.

Yesterday as I was doing my stretches I caught "Oprah" and they were doing
those weight-loss success stories where people come out on stage having
lost like 300 pounds and they look great. In most cases it was because
they didn't ever get any exercise, like most good americans. But I'm
always hearing those stories from cyclists, about how they were really fat
and out of shape and then got into cycling. "I was so fat I couldn't get
into the drops, etc". We just met up with one of those guys recently. He'd
been an athlete then got all tubby and out of shape and then got into
cycling, and now he's 55 and races, and has the physique of a 25 year old.
I see people like that often, mostly men I admit. They should get those
success stories on Oprah and then everyone will see that cycling is not
only a sport, it can take those pounds off, add years to your life, make
you look 25 years younger and it's actually FUN! People think of
'exercise' and oftne they think of grueling, boring routines. I wasn't
even fat but I've lost 6 pounds since the beginning of the season!

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Tony Austn wrote:

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"Edward Waffle" wrote:


The "bike" paths are full of people walking and pushing strollers.


I hate that so much. I have fallen twice because of that. It's always
the fat pig with the dog and the two kids who really belong on the leash.

OR dumb teenage parents on ROLLERBLADES pushing their strollers!

"Raptor" wrote in message ...
Tony Austn wrote:
The American public prefers sports where beer is sold and cheerleaders
with fake blonde hair with those silly colored stripes in it with

Now, there's an idea!

Le Tour doesn't need them - the podium girls are enough for the
organization. But the TEAMS, at least the top ones, could hire
cheerleading squads.

Rabobank has one. Not a squad, but one cheerleader.

"Lover cycling"? Who's the idiot?


"Tony Austn" wrote in message
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If you are an American and lover cycling, your IQ has to be well over
110 points

Cycling is not popular here in America because Americans can only
understand racing if it has no right turns in it. (Like Nascar or Indy.
And then those poor, "gifted", Americans who can't even understand
NASCAR prefer drag racing because it has no turns.)

Oh, the names of the "athletes" have to be: Dale, Ernie, Bubba, Jethro,
or Bobby to be able to get an endorsement and they have to come from a
state that only has three last names. (I will let your imagination
figure out why there are only three last names.)

Why isn't grand prix, cycling, or motorcycle racing popular?, because
the average American is an idiot and prefers Jerry Springer over Chris
Matthews, or Nascar; whose redneck drivers can barely speak American
english or are even able point out where France is on a map, over
cycling.

The American public prefers sports where beer is sold and cheerleaders
with fake blonde hair with those silly colored stripes in it with
strange colors that you see no where else in nature and who actually
consider Pam Anderson, or Anna Nicole Smith as a role model as side
entertainment.

As an American, I think cycling requires to high of an IQ for the fat,
American, slob, in the grandstand wearing face paint, no shirt, and a
giant piece of cheese on his head while it is 20 degrees outside.

And this is coming from an American in California.

"Tony Austn" wrote in message
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-snip incredibaly arogant and ignorant rant...

And this is coming from an American in California.


American in California...quite an oxymoron...

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"Dave Allar" wrote:

"Tony Austn" wrote in message
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-snip incredibaly arogant and ignorant rant...

And this is coming from an American in California.

American in California...quite an oxymoron...

Oh look, a NASCAR fan!

Tony Austn wrote in message ...
If you are an American and lover cycling, your IQ has to be well over
110 points

Cycling is not popular here in America because Americans can only
understand racing if it has no right turns in it.

Left turns.

"Tony Austn" wrote in message
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"Edward Waffle" wrote:


The "bike" paths are full of people walking and pushing strollers.


I hate that so much. I have fallen twice because of that. It's always
the fat pig with the dog and the two kids who really belong on the leash.

The get out of my way mentality is ugly. If you want to ride more than 8
mph, ride on the street.

Marty wrote in message ...
"Raptor" wrote in message ...
Tony Austn wrote:
The American public prefers sports where beer is sold and cheerleaders
with fake blonde hair with those silly colored stripes in it with

Now, there's an idea!

Le Tour doesn't need them - the podium girls are enough for the
organization. But the TEAMS, at least the top ones, could hire
cheerleading squads.

Rabobank has one. Not a squad, but one cheerleader.


What does ONE cheerleader do? Besides "lead cheers" of course.

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"Edward Waffle" wrote:


What does ONE cheerleader do? Besides "lead cheers" of course.

Ahhh, I think the term "cheer leader" is a euphenism for something else
especially if she is from Amsterdam.