I like to joke that I'm knee deep in the bike game. But I'm not. I'm just some shitbag with a website in Flagstaff, Arizona. But I do get out now and again. And I like to drink beer and bullshit with people. And people tell me things. Sometimes I hear things.
I know guys that have raced as amateurs in Spain and all their teammates were doped. I know guys that have raced in Belgium as amateurs and took dope. I know guys that race here in the States on pro teams and some of their team mates take EPO. I know guys that have raced here in the States and took steroids and whatever else.
I won't mention any names, as it is their story to tell if they wish to. I'm just a shitbag in Flagstaff with a website. But believe me, doping is everywhere. When someone posts in the Velonews forum and says, so-and-so would never take drugs when they've never even met so-and-so… Well, take that as you will.
I have no reason to believe anyone is clean.
And from DC's forum: this gem of a link:
arab(?) doing donuts on a bicycle
And Damn if megA's code isn't hauntingly taunting me... click - oh here's The famous IF hot ass... again... no? i thought i clicked on the new one... nope... there's the IF Hotty again... strange...
SB's beating on me again... but i deserve it after that self pity sack of crap post i rambled on saturday...
and ahh the good old days of Rec.bikes... I trolled, posted and debated in that arena back in college... i think i first tapped into in sophomore or junior year 91-92 or 92-93
Denis Leary just has afunny delivery, but yeah he hasn't changed, but there's something about that wanna be NY Irish asshole that makes it all work. He does have a family and those kids are his priority. He's got far damn more heart that most fuckers out there, and maybe its the dichotomous nature of his personality that i can identify with.
Yeah and telling stories over and over. yeah... it gets old-
But i've mentioned cleat position before no? Well my Mt shoes and my Road shoes both have the cleat reasonably forward relative to the 'muter shoes... last nigth is aid fuckit - i'm gonna fucking adjust these once and for all... maybe... well i 'think' i've got all three cleats bang on exactly the same place... more or less. "But GeWilli, all three have the same cleats?" Yeah... i'm running old school Mt style SPD cleats. And running Dura-ace SPDs (not SPDr) on the Klein, Ultergra SPD (not SPDr) on the P-mount and i've got a 747s every where else (cross, and mt bikes). Yeah mt bikes, two of em, and they haven't hit the dirt in 2+ years... how fucking sad is that?
Oh and whats up with the langugauge(sic)? Omage to the washington post
Oh and a "You know its time to get new gloves" moment...
taking them off this morning... they smelled like i threw up in them... and i thought damn i wonder if my hands will smell like that... (just checked) still do - 2.5 hours later... i can still smell it... Time for new gloves... *thinking aloud* I wonder if there is a Motocross shop around i can get another pair of MotoX gloves, in Michigan you couldn't go too far without finding one... but this ain't michigan.
Now - despite the whole house & moving stuff... i'm gonna try and still get out at least 2x a week beyond the commute for a hard TT or long ride... might have to make due with two mid-week TT rides as the weekends will most likely be sucked into a vacuum of cleaning, sorting, and packing...
okay I must now do the obligatory thank you for the few readers i have... thank you for giving me a purpose for these odd seconds i would waste away anyway (searching online for random stuff or playing radom games or other just general waste of time activites when ya have highspeed net)...
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Beating on you? I am kind and gentle! Being wicked smaaat, yeah, it is cool and all, but most dogs could not get admitted to an Ivy League school, but I bet they would make better friends than most of the people who do.
As for Leary, just another angry white guy. I'll bet he doesn't respect cyclists either.
DC's comments on drugs: I think the part about first hand knowledge is right on. Relying on the media one way or the other is foolish. However, just because someone is a successful pro cyclist does not make them a doper. There are lots of people who would not dope.
My feeling is that there is a code of silence, and that is the real problem. Anybody who speaks out gets labeled as a whiner and a crackpot, but nobody understands the real problem like a clean rider who comes in second to a doper. The winner gets all the attention and the glory, and second place gets nothing, no matter how clean.
I hope it is not as bad as some say, but I am afraid it is.
Yeah, i know - i'm in turn being a smart ass...
oh and i didn't get admitted to this Ivy school (the only one I applied to)... which i'm damn glad i didn't.. (at least sitting here right now).
Its much harder to get a job here - daddy, grandfather, whoever can't buy you a job as easily as they can buy you a spot in the freshman class...
Denis is a chain smoking hockey fan, which makes him more likely to be pro-cycling than anti-cycling like the football and baseball myopic asswipes out there...
I'm sure there's a group of clean riders... but like baseball i'd wager that group is far in the minority...
pretty soon we'll have a dendrimer delievered gene therapy that will naturally boost one's production of growth hormone, and you'll be able to genetically maintian (with the same dendrimer delievered gene sequence) exactly 49.5 hemocrit... all with out drugs and 100% undetectable...
the only way to know if someone's clean is to monitor them 24/7/365
which is wicked sad...
all we can do is stay clean and ride with our dignity...
Knowing (like few of the people on Everest) that its not what you acheive or if you acheive it, its what you do along the way. Walking past a dying man to summit, or stopping and helping and bringing him down to safty... shouldn't be a choice... assbags should be kicked down the steep side of the ridge if they pass a climber in need of aid...
same sort of ethics... its personal ethics... not many people have them anymore...
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