Comments on: There are also heroes and they need you to believe

By: Wayne, Kelowna, BC

Wayne, Kelowna, BC — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:51:48 +0000

Ryder, fantastic effort in the 2010 Tour. It is nice to see a Canadian back in fine form in this prestigious event it has been a long time. Looking forward to watching next year's tour already.

By: Wayne, Kelowna, BC

Wayne, Kelowna, BC — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:51:00 +0000

Ryder, fantastic effort in the 2010 Tour. It is nice to see a Canadian back in fine form in this prestigious event it has been a long time. Looking forward to watching next year’s tour already.

By: TDF Fan in Vancouver

TDF Fan in Vancouver — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:49:50 +0000

Ryder H. You Rock! 4th on the Tourmelet – Congratulations

By: TDF Fan in Vancouver

TDF Fan in Vancouver — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:49:00 +0000

Ryder H. You Rock! 4th on the Tourmelet – Congratulations

By: dave hydrick

dave hydrick — Sun, 09 May 2010 09:28:10 +0000

why isn't danny pate racing TOC?

By: dave hydrick

dave hydrick — Sun, 09 May 2010 04:28:00 +0000

why isn’t danny pate racing TOC?

By: David

David — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:29:42 +0000

David, your experience and your ability to translate that into actions and words is one of the many reasons I go out and slog miles in the rain, cold and snow! You love to ride and the passion shows through. I too love getting on the bike for no other reason than to ride. Yeah, racing is fun (especially in the masters group) however it is the sheer joy and beauty of turning the pedals that provides the little person inside all of us the opportunity to emerge and relive that feeling. Keep turning the pedals and hopefully wee will see you in the states.

By: Conor

Conor — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:02:11 +0000

David,
It might surprise you to hear that you and Paul Kimmage have so much in common. Both pro-cyclists (although obviously he’s retired), both reformed dopers, both passionate about the sport and both damn good at translating all that into the written word.

All in the name of fighting the good fight!

By: Marika

Marika — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:48:56 +0000

OK, we need a name to call the guys who knowingly dope, deny and flaunt, and those who require the doping. OR we need to tie flaunter’s names to something they’d cringe from.

In the vein of “santorum” in honor of (now former) Sen. Rick Santorum (google it!!!–but not for children), I nominate “ricco” to mean that special combination of jackass, bastard, snake, liar, cheat, amoral idiot that you would never want your sister to date or your boss to hire. (And calling them a snake, etc. is insulting to snakes, jackasses, bastards, etc. Unfortunately, it sounds like the Spanish ‘rico.’)

Those in the know will likely have a better honoree, and better definition.

The word ‘santorum’ is spreading (sorry, definition is not for PG audiences), and helped bring an end to Rick Santorum’s political career. May something similar here work similar magic!

The nominations are open! Have fun!

By: Michael LeVere

Michael LeVere — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:00:13 +0000

David,

The more that I read your diary enteries, the more that I respect you, where you have been and what you are doing right now for the sport.

The last paragraph in your entery struck home with me. You are using your experience as an ex-doper to make sure that the sport gets cleaned up and that it returns to the glory it once was. You don’t see that in too many sports. I don’t see one athlete in another major sport that has admited that he took performance enhancing drugs and now is trying to help clean up the sport.

There is no other sport that does more testing on its athletes than cycling does. What would you think would happen to baseball or football (American or Euro) if they adapted the same testing and penalties that cycling has? Half of the teams probably couldn’t survive….

I am so glad that riders like Christian V, Mark Cavendish, Levi Leipheimer and their teams are so dedicated to the cleaning up of their sport, it gives me hope for the future.

Thanks David, for continuing the fight and being an honest, stand-up guy.