IIWhy do you insist on broadcasting
the race results on your home page?11
increasingly rare and immeasurably
Senator Ashcroft
munity has made great strides in
securing support of legislators across
valuable wild lands, such as the
I would like to take this opportunity to
thank PACE Motor Sports' Roy Jan,son and Team Suzuki's Roger
DeCoster for their hospitality whjle
hosting my uncle, U.S. Senator John
Ashcroft, at the St. Louis Supercross.
Mr. Janson and Mr. DeCoster went
out of their way to make his visit
memorable. Uncle John had a great
time and wants to ride the whole
track next year.
Additionally, my brother Alex and I
are avid racers and know first hand
the support my uncle has provided
our sport. As he faces re-election, we
encourage Missouri voters to support
John Ashcroft for U.S. Senate.
the United States. Luckily, Senator
Sequoia National Forest.
Ashcroft is a real off-road rider (albeit
Maybe it's just that we can't see
the obvious. All the motorcycles in
Adam B. Ashcroft
Osage Beac:fl, MO
Senator Ashcroft I
I was a bit alarmed
upon reading the article
you published commenting on Senator
John Ashcroft's guest
appearance at the St.
Louis Supercross event.
Your remarks were negative to say the least,
and should do a good
job at alienating future
politicians interested in
representing the rights
of motorcyclists. While
the senator may have
lent his name to a few
bills as Governor that
included helmet laws,
he is an avid motorcy-
a casual trail rider) who supports our
issues.
the world can't take the place of a
Why Cycle News felt compelled to
sequoia tree or any tree. We can
take a back handed swipe at him
make any number of new motorcycles, but we can never hope to
because he rode out onto the track
helmetless during his introduction is
beyond me. While I question your
assertion that the Senator ':supported
helmet laws" while Governor of Missouri, I firmly believe he was the only
Governor in recent memory and certainly one of the few current United
States Senators who supports offroad issues.
Your portrayal of Senator Ashcroft
could have very well left a sour taste
in the mouth of some Missouri voters.
Senator Ashcroft supports our issues,
and he needs our support as he runs
replace an old-growth forest of the
west, or the vitally diverse and magnificent forest of the east.
We can allow some remnant of our
irreplaceable deserts, mountains,
wetlands, prairies and meadows to
thrive for future generations by sticking to riding conscientiously and
respectfully in existing areas or in
new areas that are not part of rare
and endangered lands.
We riders are going to have to
learn that gaining respect and, yes,
love, of our precious earth and our
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clist who has legitimate
concerns about the
rights of enthusiasts
everywhere. And I can
assure you that you will
not find his opponents
reaching out to offroaders with open arms
Team Suzuki's non-pierced, non-tattooed champion freestyle competitor and winning Supercross racer, Travis Pastrana.
- instead they'll be following the environmenfellow creatures is going to be most
for reelection this year. I assure you
talist policies of AI Gore and the Clinimportar.lt in preserving ourselves and
that the Senator's opponent, current
ton administration.
the only home we have, our living
Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, will
The fight against helmet laws is
earth.
support the Clinton/Gore land grab
not an issue supported by all motorRJckColf
and other radical issues that threaten
cyclists. Furthermore, given the curNaples, NY
riders' access to land across the
rent political climate, it is easy to
country.
understand the difficulty involved in
As we attempt to make new allies
making a decision for or against helin the political arena, let's not work
met laws. At any rate, keep up the
Well, you did it again, and I have to
against those who are already our
good work with Cycle News. With
say I am disappointed in the extreme.
friends.
friends like you, who needs enemies?
It's such a simple thing, really. How
QIfrDavls
Nigel DeCoster
ca n you not get it right - time after
Springfield, MO
ColD De Caza, CA
time? I am talking about, of course,
your blatant disregard for those of us
who would like to be surprised by the
I was extremely disappointed with
outcome of a race when we are set to
Although I am a motorcycle enthusiCycle News' negative portrayal of
watch it on Speedvision. Why do you
ast, both on and off road, I must take
United
States
Senator
John
insist on broadcasting the race results
exception to fellow riders and leaders
Ashcroft's appearance at the St.
on your home page? It is incredibly
of the motorcycle industry when they
Louis Supercross. The off-road comare against the preservation of our
rude.
A Job Well Done?
Senator Ashcroft II
Though I've only been a subscriber
for about six years, I find that I cannot
live without your publication keeping
me up to date on my motorcycling
scene. Your coverage of events is generally outstanding, sometimes brilliant.
Your website, to put it mildly, sucks.
Stop posting results on the home
page. How difficult is it to put a link to
a page with the results on it? Not very.
Please, I'm begging. Thank you for
your time. I hope you consider what I
said as constructive criticism.
Earth First
cue I
e
Basically, you are asking us not to do
our job very well so that you can
watch the 500cc Grand Prix on television on Sunday night without knowing who won. Bummer. Sorry, but
our business is to proVide the news as
qUickly as we can after each event. If
you don't want to know who won,
why are you visiting cyclenews.com
anyway? .. Editor
Anti-Freestyle
If I use a road race bike to go off
jumps, is it called freestyle road racing?
Is a male who has been to the
beauty parlor to get the latest moronic hairdo, had his tongue, mouth, nipples, genitalia, and ears pierced so he
can wear women's jewelry, and does
stupid human tricks on a dirt bike a
freestyle idiot?
Is a once respectable motorcycle
newspaper that covers such non-racing airhead exhibitions on the wrong
track and getting seriously off
course?
If an idiot listens to grunge rock,
dyes his hair, pierces his face and
body, doesn't race, but can do the
can-can, do wah, superman and top
it off with the girlieman, is he really
any kind of champion?
In the new millennium, I'm sorry to
say the answer is yes to all of the
above.
L. Greer
Springdale, AR
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