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Unless I am remembering wrong, neither Israel or Spain have the humidity 
common in parts of the USA.  If endurance takes off in Indonesia, where it 
is very humid it will be interesting to watch their experience.

I want to state again that I will ride under either rule, and ride the same 
speed.  I just would like to see rule changes, in our already quite safe 
sport, better justified than this one appears to be.

The thing that has been upsetting me today, is the posts, some of them from 
people who should know better, that attempt to demonize those who are 
opposed to the 30 minute rule by lumping them in with those, who many years 
ago opposed "fit to continue".

This is a common debating technique, I just can't remember the name of this 
game.  It is probable that most of those opposing this rule on this list, 
were not even riding endurance when "fit to continue" was proposed; 
therefore, they are not responsible in any way for opposition to "fit to 
continue".  It is also completely unfair to accuse them of being against all 
progress in our sport, because they want evidence that the change will help. 
In a democratically run organization, it is the height of arrogance to claim 
that you do not need to justify your proposals.  This is the type of 
reasoning used by Kings and religious leaders.

Another problem is that the success of one rule change "fit to continue" has 
no relevance to the present rule change proposal.  You can't say that rule 
change A produced the desired result B therefore rule change C will also 
produce the desired result B.

Ed
Ed & Wendy Hauser
2994 Mittower Road
Victor, MT 59875

(406) 642-9640

ranch(at)sisuwest(dot)us 



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