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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Cycling editorial
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:48:46 -0400
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On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:26:12 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 4/22/2024 2:23 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>> 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:
>>>
>>>> On 4/21/2024 10:18 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:00:19 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I don't believe there's a rule against mounting a water bottle on the
>>>>>>>> bars. I could be wrong.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <https://assets.ctfassets.net/761l7gh5x5an/7s1ma6mVAVlFwi8rRgy0Iw/1bef531dd9e9f534c34ff016c68e3c72/Clarification_Guide_of_the_UCI_Technical_Regulation_-_20211005_-_ENG.pdf>
>>>>>>> See pages 49 to 51.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> heh heh heh
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But as they say all is change. A new era with even more
>>>>>> arbitrary and ridiculous rules.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Change everything"  (I have a rubber stamp with those words).
>>>
>>>> It's universal to bureaucracies as Hayek brilliantly explained.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
>
>After that , his soul mate von MIses:
>
>https://archive.org/details/HumanAction

I'm a bit of a John Locke, Thomas Hobbes kind of guy...  but it was a
very long time ago.