Carl Sundquist wrote:
MagillaGorilla wrote:
Carl Sundquist wrote:
MagillaGorilla wrote:
Carl Sundquist wrote:
MagillaGorilla wrote:
Carl Sundquist wrote:
MagillaGorilla wrote:
What does Carmichael in '96 have to do with Twigg in '84?
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Apple Lap. 1981. Nitz. $2500. What's that worth in today's money?
Anywhere from $5k to $11k, depending in which relative value calculator
you use. What place is that equivalent to on GC at the Tour?
IIRC, it was a bit of a cluster, because they rode over a steel grate
bridge which wasn't cool. I think Leslie Moore won the women's race.
Jacqui Bradley (Jeff Bradley's sister) won the women's race at the
Mohawk Classic. $15,000. 1981. ($34k to $66k in today's dollars) What's
that worth in today's money on GC at the Tour (for the _men_)? In the
realm of 5th place on GC. Total prize list $71 grand. And it wasn't
split up between 14 different masters categories, either.
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WTF is a Carney abortion?
Keep talkin' Magilla Ahmadinejad, juuust keeeeeep on talking.
Okay, so you split $10k between your 5 teammates and you got $2,000. The Mohawk
Classic purse sounds better but how long did that race last with that kind of prize
money. I would bet no longer than 1 or 2 years.
$10k is $10k and splitting is splitting. It doesn't matter if it was 27
years ago in Jersey or a couple of months ago in Minnesota. It's
irrelevant to the issue at hand.
You're right about the lifespan of the race. I don't know, but what's
the average lifespan of any big $ bike race in the US? How many years
did the Triple Crown (Thrift Drug, West Virginia, CoreStates) that
offered a $1M prize to the winer of all three last? The Super Duper Tour
of America, like many others, can't even get beyond a webpage.
You cherry picked the richest races in the season and then talked about what the
winner would get. 95% of the women made the equivalent of what a Walmart cashier
makes in a summer.
Magilla
ADHD Monkey,
To refresh your memory, this is relevant to your viewpoint that amateurs
did not receive money.
So they competed in the all-amateur Olympics as frauds in violation of the IOC rules at
the time that said athletes could make no money in their sports? Since Connie Carpenter
Bee retired right after the 1984 Games, she technically had to retire with no earned
income at all from cycling or she would have been ineligible to compete in the '84
Olympics.
So are you saying Connie Carpenter made no money in cycling or that she was an Olympic
fraud? Take your pick, O-CarlWan.
Thanks,
Magilla
Do you consider yourself to have been an amateur fraud?
No, because the chief never stomped my ass.
Magilla
You need to capitalize the C, or Gibby will sit on you.
Gibby Fatton wishes he were Jackie Simes. A lot of people were jealous of that Rt. 28 book
when it came out. The Blade and Indiana Granite think they made the gerbil wheel what it is
today,. One day J-Me will drive a Catepillar onto the Air Products hamsterdrome and turn it
into a public built-in swimming pool. Who's gonna stop him - the little Reinhart boy...Andy
Lakatosh? Who? That convicted felon Chenowth?
Then what will the Chief have to say? Art can call lap times for the butterfly over the PA
system just as easily as a miss-and-out. Chauner's the only guy smart enough to put a roof
over a gerbil wheel.
Once the Blade moves up to Top Fuel, he'll get his own reality show and then you'll wish you
stayed in the game and got some of the new cats.
How come I don't see you on the Thursday ride at the Rodale chipmunk track? Even the girls
come out to race that, Carl - you can keep up.
You don't seem to remember when The Beard use to drop the Carney brothers in Norristown, do
you? That 7-Eleven jersey Jonas use to show up in didn't matter.
You can even see Alan "Ric Ocasek" Roginiski, who stopped taking steroids after finally
finishing Corestates 1 lap down. Those days of being able to clean up on the Corestates KOM
without finishing are long gone.
Somebody is jealous of Shawn Wallace in here, and it's not the monkey.
Magilla