The Racing Union Committee for Physical Culture and Sports Sub-Committee for Bicycle Racing and Event Commission denounces in the strongest terms the capitalist and ill-considered tomfoolery on display here by a misguided individual who has misused and mistreated the general cycling community. Even though the Union wholeheartedly supports the use of bourgeois mechanisms to fight for freedom from tyranny and oppression, to allow innocent and unsuspecting racers to believe that $40,000 in prize money has been acquired for the distribution to winners in a bicycle race is unacceptable.

You will be reminded that the People’s team has already declared this event and venue in perpetuity for the People in its continuing efforts to glorify cycling and two-wheeled transportation. Efforts to illegally and illegitimately co-opt this celebration of Unionist thought and progress is unthinkable and will be met with single-minded and invincible resistance by the vanguard of human-powered locomotion.