Re: Cycling editorial

On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:16:48 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
wrote:
 

On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 07:44:15 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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On 4/21/2024 10:18 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:00:19 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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On 4/21/2024 4:54 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:24:56 -0400, zen cycle
<funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
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I don't believe there's a rule against mounting a water bottle on the
bars. I could be wrong.

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You're wrong:
<https://road.cc/content/news/49519-uci-sets-sights-drinking-bottles-next>
"The new rule Article 1.3.024 will only allow bottles to be positioned
on the down tube and seat tube."
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<https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/7s1ma6mVAVlFwi8rRgy0Iw/1bef531dd9e9f534c34ff016c68e3c72/Clarification_Guide_of_the_UCI_Technical_Regulation_-_20211005_-_ENG.pdf>
See pages 49 to 51.
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heh heh heh
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Riders used to complain that the 'white sox only; must cover
the ankle' rule was silly. And also the official with a tape
measure checking distance between hem of shorts leg and knee
back during the 'black shorts only' rule era.
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But as they say all is change. A new era with even more
arbitrary and ridiculous rules.

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In the interest of not starting a political discussion, I'll just
mention that the problem has been well known for many centuries and is
commonly known as the Chinese version of legalism:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalism_(Chinese_philosophy)>
Legalism can be made to work, but does not scale easily to large
numbers without using coersion.
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"Change everything"  (I have a rubber stamp with those words).

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It's universal to bureaucracies as Hayek brilliantly explained.

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Yep.  His book "The Road to Serfdom" is on the basic reading list for
prospective Libertarians.
<https://ctheory.sitehost.iu.edu/img/Hayek_The_Road_to_Serfdom.pdf>
I read it in college, along with "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand:
<https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458873>  (90 MBytes)
Both books convinced me that the default answer to excessive
bureaucracy is NOT more bureaucracy.
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Where is my rubber stamp hiding?

 I read Atlas Shrugged when I was in High School. I never read "The
Road to Serfdom," but I think I will. Thanks for the PDF. I hope it's
legal. It's now on my Kindle