a short extract from some extemporaneous remarks delivered during a group ride over the weekend of 12-13 November, 2006. 

comrade soldiers! the question of the local association system is now the order of the day. the capitalists and plutocratic despots in whose hands the local association power now rests, desire a parliamentary bourgeois management, that is, a system where there is no representative voice, but where power remains in the hands of the capitalists who govern the region by means of the old institutions, namely: the officials, the bureaucracy, and the necessary materiel for adminstering races.

we desire a different association, one more in keeping with the interests of the people, more democratic. the revolutionary citizens, cylists and soldiers of hains point have overthrown mabra, and have cleaned out this very criminal element from the  cycling loops of the nation's capital. the workers of all the world look with pride and hope to the revolutionary citizens, cylists of the racing union as the vanguard, the world’s liberating army of the working class. the revolution, once begun, must be strengthened and carried on. we shall not allow these police-like forces to be re-established! all power in the associaitonn must begin from the bottom up, from the remotest little village to every street block of washington and baltimore.  from lovettsville, to annapolis, to frederick to elkton, all power must belong to the soviets of workers’, citizens, cylists, agricultural labourers, peasants and other deputies as appointed by the supreme revolutionary council for change in cycling and the social order.

the central state power uniting these local associations must be the constituent assembly of the racing union.  not the officials, not the bureaucracy, who are currently unanswerable to the people and placed above the people, not the national governing body, separated from the people, but the people themselves, universally armed and united in the cycling soviets of hte racing union.  it is the people who must run the association.  it is they who will establish the necessary order, it is they whose authority will not only be obeyed, but also respected, by the citizens and cylists, workers and peasants.

only this power, only the soviets of the racing union can solve the great question of the role in cycling in a non-bureaucratic way and not in the interests of those current entrenched in power.  cycling must not belong to the powerful few. the peasant committees sieze control at once from the plutocracts, while carefully guarding all the property against damage, and seeing to it that grain production is increased in order that the soldiers at the front be better supplied.

cycling must belong to the whole nation, and its disposal must be the concern of the local soviets of the racing union and their properly appointed peoples’ deputies. 

in order that the more bourgeois cyclists—who are themselves capitalists—may not wrong and deceive the developmental cyclists and those new to the cause of two wheels, it will be necessary for the latter either to confer, to combine, to unite separately, or to set up soviets of racign union deputies of their own.  do not allow the bureaucracy to be re-established, do not let the state power or the administration of the state pass into the hands of the bureaucracy, who are non-elective, undisplaceable, and paid on a bourgeois scale.  do not let them get together; unite, organise yourselves, trusting no one, depending only on your own intelligence and experience, and cycling in the mid-atlantic region will be able to move with a firm, measured, unerring tread toward liberation of both country and humanity, from the yoke of it's crushing capitalist oppressors.

the adminsitrations of all the other local associaitons are carrying on this facade of cycling development only for a division of capitalist profits, for domination over the citizens and cyclists.  hundreds of millions of people, almost all the countries in the world, have been dragged into this criminal war. hundreds of billions in capital have been invested in “profitable” undertakings, bringing death, hunger, ruin, and barbarism to the peoples and staggering, scandalously high profits to the capitalists. there is only one way to get out of this frightful war and conclude a truly democratic peace not imposed by force, and that is by transferring all power to the soviets of the racing union to maintain the great and glorious revolution in cycling and social order.  the citizens, cylists, and poor peasants, who are not interested in preserving the profits of the capitalists and robbing the weaker nations, will be able to do effectively what the capitalists only promise, namely, end the war by concluding a lasting peace that will assure liberty to all peoples without exception.