About
Cyclops
Originally published in the January
1985 issue of Cyclops USA
Since Jim McFadden stopped producing Cycling USA
for the U.S. Cycling Federation,
no one has the responsibility for doing
hatchet jobs on the officials and programs of the Federation. Never fear, Cyclops USA is here! This publication is aimed primarily at a rather limited and uneducated
readership: the USCF Board of Directors. One
of our goals is to insult each
Director at least once every six months.
If we haven't gotten to you recently, it is because you aren't doing anything.
Of course, we have been taking potshots at wrongdoing
for many years, most recently in a review of
legislative shenanigans that was
released at the Board meeting last
October. Cyclops USA treats the same kinds of subjects that we have taken up in the past, but in an even less formal way. While some of the statements below may seem
incredible, the Editor vouches for
their accuracy, aside from a bit of
obviously whimsical hyperbole. While we have withheld some facts to protect the guilty, everything
stated as a fact is true according to the
best available evidence.
The
Editor claims that he can take it as well as give it out, so if you see an opening, give it
your best shot! Who knows, we might even publish it. As for
publication frequency, Cyclops USA is an aperiodical. Publication
dates are determined on the same basis as
our office cleaning - we do it whenever enough dirt accumulates.
Les Earnest, Editor <les at cs.stanford.edu>
CYCLOPS USA was composed with the TROFF* program on a DEC* VAX* 750 computer running Berkeley 4.2 Unix*. It was printed in 10 point Lucida* font on an IMAGEN* 8/300 laser printer. All typos, misspellings and grammatical lapses are computer errors.
*
These are all trademarks. Naming the owners
of these trademarks is left as an exercise for the reader. The
first one to report them all correctly wins a pitcher of beer at The Finish
Line [a bikers bar across the street from the running
track at the Olympic Training Center in
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