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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!

NUE Wildcat 100 This Weekend!

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LOGO-WC-100-10 The National Ultra-Endurance Series Wildcat 100 is this weekend in Rosendale, NY! The race kicks off at 6:45am on May 11th. This is the closest 100mi race to New York City and will take racers through some of New York’s best mountain biking and scenic views like Minnewaska State Park Preserve and Mohonk Preserve. Details here!

Trans-Sylvania MTB Epic Registration Closes May 10th!

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TSE1From the TSEpic Facebook page:

HEADS UP! Registration for 2013 TSEpic will be closing in just two days. Get registered before midnight on May 10 for the best week of your life!

What is the Trans-Sylvania Mountain Bike Epic? It’s a 7 day stage race in Pennsylvania based out of   Seven Mountains Boy Scout Campground. This year’s race will be held May 26-June 1, 2013!

Get details here and registration information here.

 

Trans-Iowa V9, Stagecoach 400, and the Cohutta 100 Kick-off This Weekend!

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Mountain Bike Radio will have race coverage this weekend for the Trans-Iowa and Stagecoach 400. Tune in and get racer calls.

Trans Iowa Radio – April 26-28
Friday through Sunday Guitar Ted will be calling in with updates:
Listen to race updates here: Trans Iowa Radio.

 

Stagecoach 400 April 26-31
Stagecoach Radio Racer Updates

 

Also keep in mind the NUE Cohutta 100 starts tomorrow!

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.

USA Cycling Tells CyclingNews Riders Should Contact UCI

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cyclingnews1In this interview via CyclingNews, USA Cycling attempts to address the hoopla over 1.2.019. In the end, their position seems to be that they have to enforce it and elude to no attempt to advocate for exceptions to UCI. In fact, the much debated “exceptions” would appear to be far narrower. It doesn’t appear, from where I’m sitting, there would be very many mountain bike event that would receive such an exception.

USA Cycling appears to rather be pushing that events pay the permit fee and get sanctioned and questions promoters’ reasons for not doing so:

“The only reasons not to sanction an event with USA Cycling are if the organizer is: 1) under-insuring the volunteers and/or participants, 2) avoiding the requirement to have USA Cycling licensed officials at the event and the athlete protection policies they enforce or 3) avoiding the USA Cycling RaceClean program.”

Certainly not a diplomatic response. The insurance angle appears to be the bait USAC thinks will lure promoters but doubling the sale with a veiled threat isn’t going to be received well.

See the full interview here.