Bottecchia’s site is still silent about any potential new road bikes
Wow - Exciting new electric bikes for 2008!
Three months after my last post about the clamorous silence from Bottecchia about the company’s plans for 2009 there is still nothing reported on the news page of the official website.
The lack of information from the company, especially for those of us hoping for a dramatic improvement in its products, is disappointing given that the major road bike producers like Wilier Triestina have already started to aggressively market their 2009 models. What we can expect when the news finally comes out however is that the advertising and bikes will feature some meaningless phrases like “built with Italian passion” and “Italian design.”
I make you laugh? I'm here to f-----' amuse you? Whattya you mean funny? Funny how? ...
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats finally made the right move this week and pulled the plug on the team’s worst coach in a decade. The only problem is that they handed the reins over to Marcel “Bellefool” Bellefeuille and immediately traded Zeke Moreno, their best defensive player, for a 1st round draft choice. Well, they traded him for a draft choice after Tom Canada of Winnipeg refused to report and then caught a nasty & convenient case of ruptured spleen (don’t get me started on the farce of this trade).
The team’s promise to compete for the playoffs has as much integrity as a Bottecchia Top Sprinter BS 100… the one with stupid fake carbon black paint. Like the Bottecchia bike, only the Ti-Cat name remains to remind us of past greatness.
Or should that “distinction”go to the 90-91 Ticats?
For years it seemed as if the thorough destruction of a storied franchise undertaken by Dave “high school coach” Beckman was the absolute bottom in Hamilton Tiger-Cat football history. A moment of insanity (and penny-pinching) by then owner David Braley led to the dismantling of the previous year’s Grey Cup finalists and a 2-12 record by an utterly unqualified coach. Now the bad times are back with Charlie “5 – 23″ Taaffe.
After last night’s debacle at No – Wynne Stadium, getting crushed 35-12 by the BC Lions without any sign of resistance (or even a tackle), the Tabbies are well on their way to becoming the worst CFL team ever. The game isn’t on You tube yet – probably because the documentation of such a malignant performance would be classified as a virus.
By all accounts the team won’t get any better. The current ownership, who shelled out on an excessive multiyear contract to alleged pro coach Taaffe, is too cheap to pay for a new coach to come in and pick up the pieces before the end of the season. The management’s spin is that “the team needs consistency” – obviously the kind of consistency that comes from losing almost every game over a number of years…
Pfui.
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