This WAS pretty funny reading. Some things never change. But Les is
thankfully still with us and Dickwad Albright isn't. By this time he's
probably 240 lbs and teaching first year chemistry in a high school.
But when I was referring to people not knocking Les I mean in the last half
decade since his value has risen so much.
"Bill C" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Tom Kunich said:"Bill C" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Les Earnest said:B. Lafferty quotes from "Capital Instincts," the book about Weisel:
Quoted message said:In 1999, Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France with Weisel in
the
follow car. The financier accompanied the team on a victory lap on the
Champs d'Elysée. Weisel's venture stake in the once-obscure sport of
American cycling had turned up gold.
The next year Weisel took control of the governing side of bike
racing,
establishing the USA Cycling Development Foundation and placing
himself
and
two other members of his foundation on the board of USA Cycling's
predecessor, the U.S. Cycling Federation. Weisel now controlled
America's
top team as well its top cycling regulator.
This skips over the fact that the appointment of Weisel and his two
henchmen on the USA Cycling board was done illegally, as established by
our lawsuit, which was partly funded by contributions from rbr denizens.
When we won on appeal, they were removed from the board for a time.
A subsequent election was run crookedly by Steve Johnson that supposedly
put them back on the board. We sued again and it was clear that we would
win that suit eventually, though it would take more years going through
the appeal process. Meanwhile the crooks would still be in control of
USA Cycling and would continue to pay their legal defense expenses from
its coffers (i.e. at the expense of their victims). I eventually decided
that it was expedient to settle out of court and pursue other approaches
to cleaning up this mess, a process that is not yet complete.
-Les Earnest
Hey Les
It's just sad that a bunch of [censored], around here, who were self
professed experts had to spend their time trashing you rather than
dealing with the real problems. I'm really surprised they aren't
running around calling Gerard a lying scumbag now. I wish I could think
they were at least getting some of the crooked take, but I think they
were just stupid and brainwashed.
Thanks for hanging in there.
Bill C
Maybe you can point out someone trashing Les? I haven't noticed. Though by
"around here" I suppose you might mean USCF instead of RBR.
Remember this stuff:
Date: Wed, Nov 10 1999 12:00 am
Email: "Tom Kunich" <[email hidden]>
Groups: rec.bicycles.racing
Quoted message said:(Andrew Albright says)
Quoted message said:2) Who died and left Les in charge of deciding what everyone wants?
Considering that Les has been a thorn in the side of USA Cycling for
years
and years it becomes evident to those who know anything about the
subject
that he was elected to office almost forever. Obviously he therefore
represents those who voted him in. But maybe he ought to forget that
responsibility to his constituency because Andrew thinks he is a bit
irritating.
I have looked at some of Les's proposals in the past some of them I
thought
were unworkable and others I just didn't like. But the majority of them
were
designed to give the rank and file membership more say in the operation
of
the controlling bicycling body in the USA.
Just between us, Les ain't young enough to make a good tyrant were he
even
interested in taking the thing over and molding it in his own image.
End Quote
This is the first bit I found, and you remember, as well as the rest of
us, how nasty some of the [censored] got towards Les.
Bill C
