Originally Posted by
John Wilke
Your gripes are well founded, I can't fault anyone for that, yet there have always been problems at Superweek and you've got to expect that with 2 weeks of racing (give or take) there will be more. Riders, officials, and the general public have always had gripes about this or that back as far as anyone can remember, leading to various nicknames that aren't new: Stupor Week, Stupid Week, etc. Yet you got to hand it to them for pulling it off year after year (since 1969). For example, just having the Lake Front Long Course last year, on a Wednesday no less, was fantastic. No one raced that course since Nationals in 1985! The Kenosha Criterium is still a huge success, and there are new courses this year that have never seen bike racing before, such as Cudahy (not on this course), Lake Geneva, and South Milwaukee. So, hang with the hard times, there's still plenty to enjoy and give 'em time to pull it together. We still have 3 weeks until ToAD, then another a couple weeks after that to Superweek. (Yeah, I've always been more of a 'glass half full' kind of guy
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Yea. Stupid Week for sure. I told myself at the end last year I was going to boycott as a result, but....dammit. There's no other races on the days I have off of work....ugh such a debacle. I really am not sure how they do it year after year, with iritating the riders with bouncing paychecks, etc., and not paying their bills to the municipalites in a timely manner....come on now Speedster, positive thinking, positive thinking.....
I'll be doing all of the ToAD as I took off from work from June 11 until June 30!! Heading down to Iowa this weekend as well!! Now that's some positive stuff right there!