<< Please bear in mind that there is no requirement that a bike/rider win a World Championship for the? rainbow stripes to placed on a BIKE. It's a tradition, but not a rule, unless the UCI has changed things in recent? years.>>
Absolutely true. It's interestingly that the Olympic rings are trademarked but not the World's Rainbow Stripes. It is a strong convention though.
<< Zion (all of North and South America, according to Joseph Smith) >>
Also interesting but so far off topic we can't talk about it, but I will learn more off list.
Thanks Steven! (And sorry about slaughtering your last name, one finger typing here!)
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-----Original Message----- From: Steven L. Sheffield <stevens@veloworks.com> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 3:02 pm Subject: Re: [CR]Steven Sheffirld's interview w/ Ron Cooper ...
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Please bear in mind that there is no requirement that a bike/rider win a World Championship for the rainbow stripes to placed on a BIKE.
It's a tradition, but not a rule, unless the UCI has changed things in recent years.
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I hope I didn't miss anything.
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:39:19 -0400, youngc wrote
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:15:17 -0400, Dale Brown <oroboyz@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > << RC: I can't recall anyone with a Ron Cooper frame getting a medal or
> > anything like that. >>
> >
> > Well, I guess that confirms that technically those stripes shouldn't be
> > used in Mr. Coopers decal set, but gee whiz, Ron Cooper is so respected
> > and such a deserving icon that I, for one, am more than willing to
> > overlook this slight faux pas. No question that his frames would have
> been
> > up to winning it all had the circumstances been right, and it really the
> > rider who wins that medal...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dale Brown
>
> In the interview, it seems that Ron was very much understating his
> situation with regard to having supplied frames to riders that were badged
> any number of ways. I suspect that he was being rather humble and
> gentlemanly by respecting agreements made 30 or so years ago. Recognizing
> that Ron was an accomplished club rider in his day and was so highly
> regarded by racing men, it seems very unlikely that he wouldn't have
> adhered to the gold WC requirement. I'm sure it would have created a
> pretty big stir if not substantiated in one way or the other.
>
> His 1970's seat tube transfers were bounded top and bottom by
> rainbow bands with his name in the white before the stripes were
> added to the head transfer.
>
> Charlie
>
> Charles T. Young
> Honey Brook, PA
> USA
> > Greensboro, North Carolina USA
> >
>
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