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Passing it along...
I'm sure that I'm like many of you. For some time now, cyclingnews.com has been my default home page. Not just for the fact that Bill Mitchell and his colleague Adrian Butterworth had engineered a site that belts down the line, like a good cycling Web site should. More importantly, it was for its unrivalled coverage of cycling and the issues that go to the heart of the sport. I believe the reason we feel that close to the site was due to the personal endeavour of an extraordinary man, Bill Mitchell. After only being at the keyboard for a couple of days, I am in awe of his productivity and commitment. I am also in awe of the efforts that have been extended across the globe. Bill was supported by an incredible group of people who helped make this site the resource of information it is today and I am sure we will continue working together into the future. To those of you who have written, thank you for your kind words of encouragement. You shouldn't worry too much about the new person who's taken over. Many of the things that you love about the site I do too and there's no way that I'm going to change them. Whether it's providing unrivalled coverage of the elite levels, through to providing recognition of those emerging and senior riders, Bill provided a voice for the vast majority of us who make up the sport. The site will also continue to be a forum for discussion of the issues that go to the core of our sport and affect us all. I welcome your points of view on all these things, as it is the constituency of the sport that can drive the greatest changes. As for myself, well, let's just say I wasn't blessed with the racing genes of most of the riders you'll read about in cyclingnews. In my competition cycling, I have experienced the suffering of being dropped on a climb and struggling home behind the bunch, through to getting my act together and rubbing elbows in the final throw at the line. At those times, the exhilaration of giving 100% to pedal your bike as quickly as you possibly can, and occasionally getting your wheel first over the finishing tape on the road, makes all the training seem worthwhile. Now the hard work is to be found at a keyboard. Over the next few weeks, I will also be introducing some of the people who help me in my business of publishing magazines about - wait for it - the Internet and trends in IT. In publishing the magazines Image & Data Manager and Internet World Australia, we have seen incredible uptake in the use of the Web as a means of providing information and commerce. We have also learnt there is one golden rule in publishing Web sites: content is king. It must be accurate, relevant, thought provoking and passionate. Bill Mitchell provided such a site, and I certainly intend to follow through on such a brilliant lead-out. Safe riding, Gerard Knapp
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