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Bill Curtain,

You accuse Bryan Esser of belonging to a 'clique'. True. All of us, or at least most of us, that post in VINTAGE BMX TALK, are members of that clique...BITD BMX'ers...yourself included. But you make it sound awful.

You accuse Bryan Esser of being an 'elitist', quoting him as saying: "What do TODAY'S racers...TOMORROWS HOF nominees bring to the table that is HOF worthy?" And: "Remember they are ICONS of our sport and they represent the virtues and standards that 'we' set."

Then you say: "Who the hell is 'we'?

Common sentence structure: 'we' refers back to 'our sport'...'we' are the members of 'our sport'. 'We' are the people who vote for new HOF inductees. This is not 'elitist'.

These are your reasons for banning Bryan from VINTAGE? The only part of this that holds water is that VINTAGEBMX is your website...you get to do what you want with it.

I, however, get to have my opinion of what you do with it. Up until the banning of Bryan Esser, my opinion was that you were doing great (read my intro to the HISTORY OF FREESTYLE).

My opinion now is that you have made a terrible mistake. If you have some personal problem with Bryan, which you allude to, take it up with Bryan personally.

Here is an 'elitist' rant that you completely ignored:

"For a while I thought Bryan was an arrogant, clueless, uneducated, and disrespectful guy that once raced BMX and held his views from his own little world. In the "clips sucks" and the "While You Were Sleeping...." threads, I even spent some of my own energy to try to bring young Bryan up to speed and (for lack of a better term) "educate" him as to what has gone on since he stopped paying attention to our sport."

"But......."

"After watching the YouTube clip of Bryan's attempt at public speaking (and after the scores of typos and grammatical errors I read daily), I have decided that educating Bryan on modern day BMX is truly a lost cause. The video clip and misspelled rants will now be put to use locally as I plan on using them to motivate kids to stay in school."

"So, after I learned a bit more about Bryan, I replaced the word "arrogant" with "ignorant" (ignorant, clueless, uneducated and disrespectful guy that once raced BMX and holds his views from his own little world) and called it good."

In completely ignoring Pliska's rant you compounded your mistake. If you learned anything about me from reading BMX ACTION back in the day, you know that fairness is very important to me.

I cannot do anything more than I have done here to rectify this unfairness. What I can do, is remove myself from this site. Please do to my VINTAGE name what you did with Bryan's. Make it 'unregistered'.

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