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OH MY GOD!!!!!
The Canadian Cycling Association is telling us to check the bells on our bikes.......
I'm not making this up.
What a disgrace. This such an embarrassment.
http://www.canadian-cycling.com/cca/media/news/news_051007.shtml
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05.10.07 - Cycling for all – CAN-BIKE cycling tip #2
May 10, 2007 (Ottawa, ON) – Cycling for all – The Canadian Cycling Association is pleased to communicate its second CAN-BIKE tip of the season.
CAN-BIKE TIP #2:
Warm up the bike before every ride
Bikes are fairly easy to maintain but still require your attention to ensure a safe journey. Tires release air, chains need oil, bells and brakes need to work, and handlebars need tightening. The basics!
The ABC Quick Check is an easy way to remember what parts of the bike need your TLC before every ride. It takes less than a minute.
A – is for air. Check everything to do with your tires and wheels and air pressure. The valve must be straight out of the rim, not at an angle.
B – is for brakes, bars and bell. The brake pads must be straight and grip the rim effectively. The handle bars must be straight and tight. The bell must work.
C – is for chain & crank. Chains need to be lubricated & the pedals (cranks) need to spin freely.
Quick – is for quick release. Levers must be installed correctly and tight.
Throw in a ‘D’ for Drop: lift the bike a few inches from the ground and drop it. If something falls off…you might need more than a minute. Try your breaks as you ride off.
If your bike passes the ABC Quick Check, get riding. If something doesn’t seem right or you suspect something is losing its grip, visit your neighbourhood bike service centre. ABC Quick Check is a smart way to keep your bike in good shape and you safe. Get into the habit!
ABOUT CAN-BIKE
The CAN-BIKE safe cycling skills program is the standard for bicycle education across Canada. CAN-BIKE Courses teach riding skills, traffic analysis skills, and collision avoidance techniques. They also provide the basics on safe equipment, and a basic bike inspection. Regardless of your experience, CAN-BIKE will make your cycling more effective, and give you a greater sense of confidence and control in traffic. Visit http://www.canbike.net/cca_pages (http://www.canbike.net/cca_pages/)
With generous support of Transport Canada’s Moving on Sustainable Transportation program.
Date: May 10, 2007
To: Ryder Hesjedal, c/o sbulsara@teamhealthnet.com (sbulsara@teamhealthnet.com)
From: Lorraine Lafreniere, Director General of the Canadian Cycling Association
Re: Bells on your bike
MEMO
Dear Mr. Hesjedal,
After watching you recently climb Brasstown Bald in the Tour of Georgia on VS TV it has come to our attention that you do not have a functioning bell on your bicycle.
The official policy of the Canadian cycling Association is that all bicycles should have functioning bells. ( “The bell must work.”
http://www.canadian-cycling.com/cca/media/news/news_051007.shtml (http://www.canadian-cycling.com/cca/media/news/news_051007.shtml))
This being the case, we request you place a working bell on your bicycle as soon as possible.
Failure to do so may result in the suspension of the Canadian Cycling Association License.
You may contact Lorraine Lafreniere at:
2197 Riverside Drive, #203
Ottawa, Ontario K1H 7X3
Telephone: (613) 248-1353 Fax: (613)
general@canadian-cycling.com
www.canadian-cyling.com (http://www.canadian-cyling.com/)
Or Lorraine.Lafreniere@canadian-cycling.com (Lorraine.Lafreniere@canadian-cycling.com)
Thank you for your cooperation.
We trust you will comply with these requirements forthwith.
OH MY GOD!!!!!
The Canadian Cycling Association is telling us to check the bells on our bikes.......
I'm not making this up.
What a disgrace. This such an embarrassment.
http://www.canadian-cycling.com/cca/media/news/news_051007.shtml
http://www.canadian-cycling.com/cca/images/cca_ph_news.jpg
05.10.07 - Cycling for all – CAN-BIKE cycling tip #2
May 10, 2007 (Ottawa, ON) – Cycling for all – The Canadian Cycling Association is pleased to communicate its second CAN-BIKE tip of the season.
CAN-BIKE TIP #2:
Warm up the bike before every ride
Bikes are fairly easy to maintain but still require your attention to ensure a safe journey. Tires release air, chains need oil, bells and brakes need to work, and handlebars need tightening. The basics!
The ABC Quick Check is an easy way to remember what parts of the bike need your TLC before every ride. It takes less than a minute.
A – is for air. Check everything to do with your tires and wheels and air pressure. The valve must be straight out of the rim, not at an angle.
B – is for brakes, bars and bell. The brake pads must be straight and grip the rim effectively. The handle bars must be straight and tight. The bell must work.
C – is for chain & crank. Chains need to be lubricated & the pedals (cranks) need to spin freely.
Quick – is for quick release. Levers must be installed correctly and tight.
Throw in a ‘D’ for Drop: lift the bike a few inches from the ground and drop it. If something falls off…you might need more than a minute. Try your breaks as you ride off.
If your bike passes the ABC Quick Check, get riding. If something doesn’t seem right or you suspect something is losing its grip, visit your neighbourhood bike service centre. ABC Quick Check is a smart way to keep your bike in good shape and you safe. Get into the habit!
ABOUT CAN-BIKE
The CAN-BIKE safe cycling skills program is the standard for bicycle education across Canada. CAN-BIKE Courses teach riding skills, traffic analysis skills, and collision avoidance techniques. They also provide the basics on safe equipment, and a basic bike inspection. Regardless of your experience, CAN-BIKE will make your cycling more effective, and give you a greater sense of confidence and control in traffic. Visit http://www.canbike.net/cca_pages (http://www.canbike.net/cca_pages/)
With generous support of Transport Canada’s Moving on Sustainable Transportation program.
good advice...its a $110.00 fine in Ontario if your bell doesn't work
http://www.toronto.ca/cycling/pdf/hta.pdf
I've been stopped by police twice in the last 4 weeks...must be some kind of safety blitz in Toronto...many motorists being stopped as well
why would you consider such good advice a disgrace?
The Canadian Cycling Association is supposed to be providing athletes for international competition, not discussing bells.
If you do not get that, you probably on are the Board of Directors of the CCA.
Let's say we live in Shangrila and a potential sponsor for the national cycling team visits the CCA web site, do you think he wants to see a safety tip on bells instead of professional race results?
The Canadian Cycling Association is supposed to be providing athletes for international competition, not discussing bells.
If you do not get that, you probably on are the Board of Directors of the CCA.
Let's say we live in Shangrila and a potential sponsor for the national cycling team visits the CCA web site, do you think he wants to see a safety tip on bells instead of professional race results?
Sounds like you have an axe to grind with this group,
but that aside...if you ride the roads in Ontario, you need a working bell (horn)
It would be a shame if an athlete got a $110.00 ticket when training for an international competition...its not a safety tip...no different than the CAA telling their members to "buckle up"
I say, good for them, for looking out for their members
Ridiculous.
You people in Ontario have you head up your butts.
How many lives have bells saved?
Who makes these ridiculous laws.
Instead of promoting this if the CCA (or OCA) has to say anything about it, which they shouldn't, they should lobby to have it changed.
Ridiculous.
You people in Ontario have you head up your butts.
How many lives have bells saved?
Who makes these ridiculous laws.
Instead of promoting this if the CCA (or OCA) has to say anything about it, which they shouldn't, they should lobby to have it changed.
Your head zippered up the back?
First, the law is the law, so unless you want to pay the fine, then don't put a warning device on your bike.
Secondly, as a bike commuter in Toronto, my bell has prevented me from getting "doored" more times than I can remember, has warned pedestrians that a bike is there (for some reason, we're hard to see in traffic and no one can judge our speed), and warned those cars that like to make turns in front of me (but I have been pulled out from under two trucks over the last couple of years)
When I ride at the cottage, both road and XC, these bikes don't have bells, but at least I accept the responsibility and won't complain if I get a ticket...luckily, bike laws aren't enforced as strickly up there
I have learned that a warning device on a bike is a good thing...would you drive a car without a horn?
Perhaps you have an issue with the group that offerd this advice, not the advice itself?
Are you mute?
Are you saying that we should scream at cars and pedestrians?...I'd like to ride with you just once...could be fun :D
What do you think it faster, you reach for and rinigng your bell or simply yelling HEY!!!!!
If we went riding you couldn't keep up.
If we went riding you couldn't keep up.and you know this how?...
what with all the screaming and yelling, I'd make sure that I'd be there to see this flying circus on two wheels
Jeez:rolleyes:
Oh come JM. Ed is right (again). For an organization that is supposed to be advocating, organizing, and funding the top end of the sport, this is a joke. It smacks of "jeez we need to post an update or something.... anything.... hey what do we have lying around.....oh! found something!".
Ed - please don't think I'm endorsing your M.O. at all. I just agree with your assessment of the pitiful state that the CCA is in now. I've long since given up on them.
Oh come JM. Ed is right (again). For an organization that is supposed to be advocating, organizing, and funding the top end of the sport, this is a joke. It smacks of "jeez we need to post an update or something.... anything.... hey what do we have lying around.....oh! found something!".
Ed - please don't think I'm endorsing your M.O. at all. I just agree with your assessment of the pitiful state that the CCA is in now. I've long since given up on them.
HMMM...I've been lurking here for a while and am constantly amazed by Ed's (FC?) negativity, libel, and personal attacks on the people in this organization...bordering on a psycopathic hate-on
Agree or not, you have live with any organization or try to change it.
His juvenile rants lead me to believe that he is a frustrated candidate in their elections, a digruntled cyclist who always comes in 4'th, or just sad has-been who wants to lash out at an organization that supports his sport.
I see lots of these types in soccer, baseball, and skiiing...sort of like those hockey dads that beat up on the refs.
I'd suggest that Ed (FC?) run for office in one of their elections, and then delete any references to bells or other safety issues...Apparently their manadate is to develop professional cyclists, but I think that this would begin with the younger and amateur goups...
...just a long way of saying that when you have nothing to say, then its best not to say anything stupid
Here, allow me to fill you in:
Ed raced for 15 years, winning a few Quebec provincial titles on road & track.
He was a member of Quebec Provincial Team .
He was a member of the US Olympic Development Team '85, '86 & '87, attending the US federation camps in Colorado Springs.
He co-founded, co-owned and managed the Evian Cycling Team, 1989 to 1993, Canada's first and best professional cycling team, where he hired, among others, riders like Alex Steida, first North America to wear the Yellow Jersey in the Tour de France.
Ed also directed the Women's Road World Cup in Montreal in 1999.
He was Competition Coordinator for the 2003 Canadian National Road Chamionships and the 2003 World Road Championships.
He has covered cycling for The Montreal Gazette, The Toronto Globe and Mail Pedal Magazine and VeloNews and many other publication.
He has about 34 years of experience at almost every level and capacity in the sport of cycling, (rider, manager, coach, writer, sponsor, retail sales, wholesale, Canadiin Cycling Association employee, etc.) about all he has not done is being an Official or Commissaire.
Ed has watched the sport of cycling continually decline in Canada for the last 12 years.
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blahso why do something about it?...those constant negative posts serve no purpose but to make you look bad and don't get any point across other than that you have a problem with the organization
With a proven track record of cycling accomplishments and an apparent commitment to our sport, why leave everyone with the impression that you're becomming a bitter old man?
Your posts were the first ones I saw on my regional board when I first joined here...my first thought was "why would someone want to highjack a forum to complain about something that few Canadian cyclists care about"?...I'm a member of several other biking forums and we have excellent discussions about our regional opportunitues and experiences.
too bad we can't do it here with this dark cloud thats killing the joy that's evident elsewhere
Just my .02
EDIT: Yep you would be faster than me, but I think that I would enjoy the ride more
"why would someone want to highjack a forum to complain about something that few Canadian cyclists care about"?...
Few Canadian cyclists care about?
You do not think Canadian cyclsits should care that the Canadian Cycling Association is limiting the number of riders that can attend the Pan-Am Championships and therefore the World Championshoips?
You don't think Canadian Cyclists should care about the CCA firing two coaches and losing another due to poor management or lack of funds?
You don't think Canadian cyclist should care about the association's revenue dropping from $2.7 million to $1.7 million because they are completely incapable of finding any sponsors?
If you do not care about these things, I'd say you were simply a tourist and the Canadian Cycling Association is not the body that represents you.
These are GUIDING STRATEGIES of the CCA:
The development of a strong network of certified coaches and instructors, organizers, officials, events, volunteers and staff
The development of elite athletes
Accessibility to cycling opportunities
National and Regional training centres
A balanced emphasis on all aspects of sport cycling
Financial stability wtih a diverse revenue base
Here, allow me to fill you in:
Ed raced ...
I love how you talk about yourself in the 3rd person Ed. You forgot the good stuff though - something about drugs and a gun as I recall. Feel free to provide details; I only know heresay.
Regarding the bell, it's not bad advice. You think the CCA is all about racing, and that's debatable. Regardless, all of the racers train on the roads where bells are legally required (which is an inane law in my opinion, but it is the law here in Ontario). Not having a bell opens the possiblity of a ticket. Frankly, if the CCA said that X people got a ticket in the last month for not having a bell, I would find the information valuable - it would guide me as to whether I should put one on for training. If a cop visited the donut ride looking to give tickets for a lack of a bell, it would be like a shark in a school of fish - too many to eat. I don't think it's bad advice to tell cyclists to keep in mind that it is the law, and let them decide whether they want to follow it or not.
Whatever. Resort to personal attacks. Make this all about Ed. Yeah, yeah, yeah he's nuts. Whatever.
The CCA is a joke. How the cripes is reminding us to put on a bell considered promoting and organizing competitive cycling in this country? It's not. Have they nothing better to do? Evidently not. They seem busy shafting the only real pro team in the nation. They seem busy handcuffing the brightest female prospect we've had in ages. They seem busy posting reminders to pump up our fricking tires before we go out. But what is REALLY being accomplished? NOTHING. They're too busy playing politics.
New sponsors? No.
New races? No.
Facilitating an accumulation of UCI points going into an Olympic year? Hell no.
What are their priorities? A bunch of Tin Hitlers. A complete and total failure.
(No. I'm not Ed. Nor am I an Ed booster. I just agree with the crazy bastard.)
Whatever. Resort to personal attacks. Make this all about Ed. Yeah, yeah, yeah he's nuts. Whatever.
Believe it or not, I'm not out to get Ed. However, I strongly disagree with his very personal attacks on members of the CCA (in particular, insulting the looks of an female employee on this website). I also disagree with someone pretending to be someone else, because they wanted to rejoin the forum after being kicked off. Finally, his message about certain members of the CCA, justified or not, is repetitive. So, when he says something insulting, pretending he is someone else, over and over, I get annoyed.
Now in terms of the issue, you can say that the CCA should focus on (fill in the blank). But the time and money spent to say, "have a bell" is minimal. It's not like they used their money (in part from race fees) to go buy bells and give them away. They just said to make sure to have a bell. I don't see the big deal in that.
I've also read many of Ed's posts, and while I think he could do a better job of getting his message across (i.e., personal attacks don't achieve anything), I do agree that the state of elite cycling is terrible.
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