This is a repost from today's all important bike news - bikebiz.co.uk
http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/daily-news/article.php?id=5569
Seems as if Trek are onto a hearts and minds campaign in the White House. Maybe it is time for a well known UK cycle manufacturer to help Tony 'on his bike'.
http://www.bikebiz.co.uk/daily-news/article.php?id=5569 Seems as if Trek are onto a hearts and minds campaign in the White House. Maybe it is time for a well known UK cycle manufacturer to help Tony 'on his bike'.
Trek's gifts to Bush are officially disclosed
The fact that President Bush accepted a $2700 Trek MTB is known in the bike trade but it's now part of an official financial disclosure document, released Friday. Trek's John Burke also supplied Dubya with gloves and a helmet. The president accepted $26 000-worth of gifts last year.
There is no limit on the size of gifts a president can receive from a US citizen, but federal law requires him to declare them if they are valued at $285 or more.
Bush is no pauper, the financial disclosure document reveals that he invested millions of dollars in Treasury notes and certificates of deposit last year.
However, Trek - and mountain biking - are getting good value for the $2700. Bush is now a regular cyclist and is often pictured on his Trek Fuel.
Last year he told a reporter from the Associated Press: "Nothing compares to getting your heart rate up to 170-something, riding hard for an hour-twenty, getting off and not hurting, as opposed to 24 minutes of running, at the end of which I hurt. When you ride a bike and you get your heart rate up and you're out, after 30 or 40 minutes your mind tends to expand; it tends to relax."
The fact that President Bush accepted a $2700 Trek MTB is known in the bike trade but it's now part of an official financial disclosure document, released Friday. Trek's John Burke also supplied Dubya with gloves and a helmet. The president accepted $26 000-worth of gifts last year.
There is no limit on the size of gifts a president can receive from a US citizen, but federal law requires him to declare them if they are valued at $285 or more.
Bush is no pauper, the financial disclosure document reveals that he invested millions of dollars in Treasury notes and certificates of deposit last year.
However, Trek - and mountain biking - are getting good value for the $2700. Bush is now a regular cyclist and is often pictured on his Trek Fuel.
Last year he told a reporter from the Associated Press: "Nothing compares to getting your heart rate up to 170-something, riding hard for an hour-twenty, getting off and not hurting, as opposed to 24 minutes of running, at the end of which I hurt. When you ride a bike and you get your heart rate up and you're out, after 30 or 40 minutes your mind tends to expand; it tends to relax."
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Gifts to war criminals? Boycott Trek!
16.05.2006 18:13
Lance was bad enough with his Republicanism, and adverts for 4X4s, but at least he criticized the Iraq war (and unlike most celeb scum, not just for PR).
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