Wife Graziella Wild accuses René Walker of founding a patrons' association. He is a dreamer if he thinks everyone pays 600 francs. It is not clear from the email why he is a cheeky bastard and has no decency. Wild also says that people like Walker are laughed at and not taken seriously. Yet Walker alone has already generated 14,000 francs in the first few days of founding the patrons' association.

If an association secretariat takes the liberty of sending such emails, the association base in Basel should urgently ask itself whether its management is still acceptable. It is a question of decency and style that is lacking in Ms. Graziella Wild's letter. The fact that not a single sentence in the letter is even remotely grammatically correct speaks for itself. Ride takes the liberty of reproducing the wording of the email sent to over 40 recipients below.

In addition, such emails are very detrimental to membership promotion. A potential member of Swiss Cycling will not have to think twice about becoming a member after reading such a letter - written by a squad member. No thanks. The same applies to sponsors: For an association whose section secretariats write such letters, not a single franc will be made loose. This is fatal, especially in the current situation of Swiss Cycling. The delegates of "Swiss Cycling beider Basel" will meet on February 23, 2008 for their annual meeting. They are advised to give serious thought to the leadership of their association.

Exact wording of the email (February 14, 2008, 19:47) from Graziella Wild:

Dear Mr. Walker

You are a cheeky bastard, you have no decency, nor do you have any respect, people like you are laughed at and you are not taken seriously. Do you dream, or do you believe that everyone will pay CHF 600 for the fact that you haven't had everything under control recently. It's sad, we are disappointed with what your board has achieved. We work our asses off, sacrifice Saturday and Sunday to promote young talent and you manage to throw everything out of the window and the icing on the cake is that you throw it to the association presidents, great tactics, so they become your scapegoats and you are off the hook. Chappop Mr. Ehrler!!! If you worked like that in the private sector, I would have given you notice long ago!

I've never been ashamed to be a member of Swiss Cycling as I was at the SM Radquer in Frenkendorf. You should have experienced the basis, it's good that nobody spoke to me and the best thing was that Marcel Erdin was portrayed as a scapegoat because the weather played a trick on certain gentlemen and so he didn't achieve 1st place. You did not manage to bring medals, the best thing was that afterwards the wrong medals were ordered (2 x 2007), Heule was supposedly 2 SM in 2007. These are facts and that also costs money!!!

With kind regards
Graziella Wild Swiss Cycling both BaelSeketariat