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Mike Sinyard Apology

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specialzd1Specialized found Mike Sinyard sent an open letter of apology to the biking community. He acknowledges he handled it poorly and was wrong. Against the backdrop of  $11,000,000 in counterfeit Specialized gear just this year, he allowed his lawyers to overzealously pursue Cafe Roubaix.

“I heard you and you can rest assured I took it to heart. I realize now that we went too far with this aggressive approach and as a result and in some cases we hurt the local bikes shops and small businesses we wanted to protect.” – Mike Sinyard

It’s good to see an apology and Dan. Hopefully Mike can gain a sense of community that many feel Specialized has been missing.

Get the full letter and pics from some of the Specialized knock-off’s that failed at Bikerumor!

ASI Asserts Trademark Authority Says Richter Can Keep Name #Roubaixgate Update

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28046_252431114879623_1745040097_nBicycle Retailer and Industry News is reporting that Advanced Sports International plans to assert it’s authority over the Roubaix name due to it’s holding of the world-wide rights to it. As such, it is working out an agreement with Cafe Roubaix Bike Studio’s Dan Richter and challenging Specialized’s rights to enforce the trademark. As it turns out, Specialized licenses the trademark from ASI. Which explains why Fuji and Specialized both market Roubaix.

ASI’s Pat Cunnane said the company has no problem with retailer Dan Richter using the name, stating:

“We have reached out to Mr. Richter to inform him that he can continue to use the name, and we will need to license his use, which we imagine can be done easily…”

And:

“We are in the process of notifying Specialized that they did not have the authority, as part of our license agreement, to stop Daniel Richter … from using the Roubaix name”

Get the full story from BRAIN!

Sornson Continues To Dominate with Syllamo Win!

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The Syllamo’s Revenge results are in! Congrats to Drew Edsall for taking the Men’s Open class, Cheryl Sornson for taking the Women’s Open class, Gerry Pflug took Single Speed, and Chris Irving took Master’s! For Cheryl, this makes 4 straight wins in the National Ultra-Endurance series!

Next up is the The Mohican 100 coming up June 1st!

UCI Postpones Enforcement of Rule 1.2.019 until 2014

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cyclingnews1Racers and promotors will have 8 months before the UCI will start enforcing rule 1.2.019 but issues what Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski referred to as a “veiled threat” that enforcement will commence in 2014.

CyclingNews reported the news this morning.

“The UCI has decided to postpone strict enforcement of rule 1.2.019 in 2013 with the expectation that all stakeholders (National Federations, race directors, teams and riders) will discuss and do what is necessary to prepare for the rule’s full enforcement in 2014.”

Promoter Mike McCormack, who puts on the Breck Epic mountain bike stage race posted on Facebook, “… We will NOT be dictated to by the UCI or USAC. Now, in 2014 or ever.”

Get the full story here.

UCI Clamps Down on “Forbidden Races”

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Forbid2USCup Racing reported today on their Facebook page that the UCI has released a clarification on “forbidden races.”

We received this mandate from the UCI regarding forbidden races and rule 1.2.019. They now clarify ALL license holders are now subject to fines and suspension for attending any “Non Sanctioned” events, regardless if they are on a UCI team or not. We are also told this applies to any Amateur holding a USAC license.

Scott Tedro later posted:

“The key sentence in the UCI statement is “A national federation may grant special exceptions for races or particular events run in its own country.” This is not the UCI, this is in fact the USAC is trying to force promoters to use their product…

He intends to review this clarification with his legal team.

USA Cycling has chimed in as well and as Tedro notes, their answer seems to be to encourage promotors and racers join USAC.

A bigger question is that does this mean for pro-riders who want to race non-UCI and non-USAC races? With so many series like NUE, USCup, and many other events drawing pro-riders this could have a chilling effect on race promotion.

So far, people aren’t taking kindly to UCI or USAC. Cyclocross Magazine posted the clarification and notes the impact on their events. Comments are coming in:

CXMagazine.com:
twohandmath: Bike racing existed before USAC/UCI, exists without them, and will continue to do so. While there is value in national and international federations regulating the sport at the highest level, they’ve done a real poor job at that the last 20 years or so, and lose credibility in all aspects.

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Allen Ball: A good move to reduce UCI membership roles. Arrogance will be it’s own reward.

And even Bicycling Magazine is tweeting that this is “bad news:”

@BicyclingMag
Bad news UCI license holders & non-USAC events: RT @USACycling Clarification from@UCI_cycling on rule 1.2.019: http://bit.ly/10zvEnI