All Headphone Ride This Weekend
Dear DC Area Bicycle Riders,
You Got Dropped will host the 1st Annual 'All Headphones Ride' this weekend. All are welcome to meet at Candy Cane City in Rock Creek Park at 10AM on Saturday and join in the ride. Please wear your headphones. Before the ride, you can send one last text message before the next red light as well. We will play a Puddle of Mudd song to get the ride stared on the organizers bluetooth speakerbox.
"We thought organizing a group ride ONLY allowing people to ride with their headphones in and listening to horrible electronic music would help promote the use of Strava in the area," said Steve Soresonboners, the original poster on the MABRA listserve who has since just changed his name to 'Steve'.
Highlights of the ride will be not talking to each other, going for Strava segments that are within the first 15 minutes of the ride, going for Strava segments that are between stoplights, going for any Strava segments and looking over everybody's sock game.
There will be no cost to the ride but donations are welcome. All proceeds go to the Headphone Fund. Leave no ear unbudded.
Belgium Kermesse YouTube Channel
Great for trainer rides! I put a few Kermesses I found on YouTube together for your viewing pleasure.
Escape to Belgium this winter!!
How many times can you watch this video? SAGAN!!!!
Just putting this here for everybody. Think I've watched it...maybe 30 times not including live. What a World Championship yesterday. Sagan is the man. This is perhaps one of the coolest wins ever. Also, I don't think i've ever seen an aero tuck where a rider actually pedals in mid tuck like that. Fast forward to about 5 minutes in. It's the UCI video so it won't get taken down.
Also..thanks to all that bought shirts in Richmond on Sunday. I'm OUT!! Time to restock the inventory and maybe come up with some new designs. Great seeing everybody too!!
Cyclist gets buzzed then driver bites the big one. Entertainment right here.
Ok...it took me awhile to figure out what a pratfall is but I guess it's when a bloke bites it on his own. Road rage is no good, of course. However, it's a two way street. The dude in the car did buzz a little too close BUT the guy on the bike chased him down to give him a piece of his mind. YouGotDrooped does not recommend that behavior. The cyclist actually REALLY seemed to want to enrage an already enraged driver. If this type of stuff happens to you, grab the license plate number, report it to the local police...maybe post something online to a cycling forum. Don't put yourself at risk. The silver lining in all this was the instant karma when the driver whiffed at the bike wheel and took a spill.
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Spring Fever Sale - Shirts and Socks Shirts and Socks
SPRING FEVER Sale continues at the You Got Dropped shop. Enter code 'SPRING' during checkout and receive 20% on everything you order.
Just walked out my door and saw a robin on top of 8 inches of snow. He's confused but I think he would look dope in a YGD shirt, bird size.
Team deals on socks still available. Take advantage because once these are gone, they are gone and we focus on new inventory (stay tuned on that!).
Just walked out my door and saw a robin on top of 8 inches of snow. He's confused but I think he would look dope in a YGD shirt, bird size.
Team deals on socks still available. Take advantage because once these are gone, they are gone and we focus on new inventory (stay tuned on that!).
February has sucked for Lance Armstrong
We all knew it was coming. Slowly, lawyers are taking aways Lance's money $1 million at a time. This time, judges in Austin have ordered Lance and Tailwind Sports to pay back the $10 million in bonuses he/they got as a result of money accrued during his TdF wins. As a reminder, this lawsuit, specifically the arbitration in 2005, was what laid the foundation for the USADA hearings which later led to the trainwreck of an interview with Oprah and the floodgate of confessions of top US pros. The downward spiral for Lance.
...and for Lance, this might not be the end handing out the cheese. The two biggies are up next. Floyd Landis and the US Government, if they do decide to follow through. By some estimates, Lance has about $125 million in the bank (minus the $10 million from this). So he's still pretty effin rich. Right now, he has eff you money. Butttt maybe not for long.
Earlier this month, my man was in Aspen doing Aspeny things with his girlfriend Anna Hansen. I can't even keep up with who has kids with who at this point. I think they have kids together but they aren't married. I think they have multiple kids together, maybe two. Anyshit, as the story goes, the couple is driving home from somewhere and Lance had been drinking. He hit two parked cars. TWO!! Homeboy tells his girlfriend to take the blame on the scene, which she does and that story goes for awhile. I guess in later interviews with the police, they snake the truth out of her and the jig is up. Lance had been drinking and driving and asked his baby momma to take the fall. Smooth.
Here we go.
In an interview with BBC News, he looked physically bad. With his eyes sunken, hair greying and wrinkles starting to develop, it's a Lance Armstrong we haven't seen before. The defeated Lance. The severely defeated Lance. The combination of stress, lack of sleep and long term effects of EPO and testosterone have made Lance look like the poster boy for a sub-human species developed by living near a genetic testing facility next door to the Sun.
In this interview, he ALMOST admits he messed up but he just can't pull the trigger. He goes as far to say that he feels bad about bullying people throughout the years but he just can't take any blame for the actual doping itself because, you know..EVERYBODY WAS DOING IT. The major headline from this interview was "I'd probably do it again."
Out of all of this, I'm trying to figure out who is giving Lance all this PR advice. Going back decades, the only thing Lance had going for himself was that he won bike races. Mr. Personality he was not. He got away with it when he was on top but it now looks like he's having a very hard time adjusting to the fact that the majority of public perception is negative. His Oprah interview was an opportunity to just come clean and say "I did it. I screwed up. Yes. Yes. Yes. These are the facts." Instead, he does what Lance does best, skirt around answers and not take ownerships. While he was at it, he threw his 'friends' under the bus and called women fat, never a smart thing to do on Oprah.
So fast forward back to this past month and Lance is in the news again, fucking up. He's had so many chances over the years to redeem himself but just can't do it. This latest stint of asking the mother of two of his kids is perhaps the latest and most telling story of how much of a scumbag this guy is. Who would do that?
Lance needs to be in therapy, like full-time 40 hours a week...at least. All the lies have added up and he hasn't changed one bit. I believe him that he'd 'do it again' and I'm sure that if he was racing today 'he'd do it again' as well.
Hopefully, this will be my last article on Lance. Probably not. I wasted a lot of energy and time watching him be a machine in all those races. He basically owes me every July back for a decade. July is a good month too. What a soap opera.
MABRA Calendar Up on YGD
So...I'm hoping for a little crowd sourcing here with the MABRA Calendar. It should be good to go but I already found a few errors and updated them so I'm guessing there are more.
I'm asking anyone that cares to share to send me updated registration links and results (I will search first but it's hard to keep up/care). Send me an email at yougotdropped@gmail.com if you have updates, additions, or results.
I'll try my best to update every week and share with my community. That goes for photographs as well so if you have a gallery you want to get out there, shoot me an email too.
I'm asking anyone that cares to share to send me updated registration links and results (I will search first but it's hard to keep up/care). Send me an email at yougotdropped@gmail.com if you have updates, additions, or results.
I'll try my best to update every week and share with my community. That goes for photographs as well so if you have a gallery you want to get out there, shoot me an email too.
In the kitchen....cooking it up
We are moving and shaking over here at YGD headquarters. Right now, we are revisiting our old embrocation recipe that old Borgman gave us years ago. Also, we are working with our clothing vendors to produce an expanded store. We are really excited about it. We'll have the classic YGD trike shirts in different colors, really nice beanies to stay warm this winter, and super pimped out neck gaiters that will add an extra style point to your next ride.
We'll set up a pre-order soon that will offer discounted prices so make sure you follow us on the facebook and the twitter..and here too of course. That's it for today. If you have any requests or ideas of YGD stuff, let us know at yougotdropped@gmail.com and we'll look into it.
Daily moment of zen
We'll set up a pre-order soon that will offer discounted prices so make sure you follow us on the facebook and the twitter..and here too of course. That's it for today. If you have any requests or ideas of YGD stuff, let us know at yougotdropped@gmail.com and we'll look into it.
Daily moment of zen
CYBERMONDAY
Apparently, today is CYBERMONDAY. If you want a good deal on our shirts and socks, enter code CYBERMONDAY at checkout. Link is to the right over there ------>
Spread the word. Textspychatgrambook your friends!!
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New Storefront - Check it out!
Hey everybody, I'm coming out of the weeds in real life. I've been getting a few emails letting me know that the YGD storefront has been down. Sorry about that! I let the old vendor expire as I wasn't 100% happy with it. We are now back and running. Fully operational with a new vendor that, I think, is better for my readers and online shoppers.
Before it expired I received a large supply of t-shirts and socks so we are back up and running now. Go to the link to the right and check it out or just click here.
New is the ability to make a team order for our popular socks pictured below. Get your crew together and get a good price on some cool socks. They are perfect for Fall cool weather rides and cylocross action. The shirts are the same as ever. Just our classic YGD trike design on a black shirt. Punk rock saved our lives.
I'm also looking for some additional items to post up over the fall and winter months so if you are interested in anything specific, drop me a line at yougotdropped@gmail.com and I'll look into it.
Thanks!
YGD
SuperDrop Osborne
Even with five katrillion wins to your name...this might happen.
Thanks to Bruce Buckley for the epic droppage pic of SuperDave.
Just a bit short
From a race from the land of hanging chads, amusement parks, and oranges comes this gem. We've seen early celebrations gone wrong but, at this angle, we are looking at at least 20 meters to go with a charging group behind. Darwin award goes to...? Guess who won?
Pictures of You
I'm gonna try and give the people what they want. Photos and videos from this past weekend's races. have something you want up here? Email us at yougotdropped@gmail.com
2014 Collegiate Road National Championships
USA Cycling actually has a pretty nice gallery up.
Richmond 2015 Criterium
Colonelsharon was in Richmond photographing the P123 race
Bunny Hop
AJWallace's Collection was photographing the 123 race
VeloGirl was also photographing the 123 race
Wheelistic Photography has shots of Cat 5, Masters 3/4, and Women's Open
Lesley Olson was at the morning races
Amy Ta has a nice collection as well
Lesley Olson was at the morning races
Amy Ta has a nice collection as well
Iron Hill Challenge
Rocco Trapani has helmet cam footage of the Cat 3 race here.
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