Wilmington GP - Pro Droppage

May 22nd

Wilmington, Delaware

Droppage Was In Full Effect

Bicycle riders of serious pedigree were off the back...in a spot of bother...DNFing like it was the business. 100 starters. 44 finishers. 66 got dropped. Ouch. That's fast.

Jim Wilson is our hero. A picture normally says 1,000 words. This says much more.

Two Johns - One Shirt

Word up to the Two Johns Podcast for representing YGD at the races in Ohio. We are big fans of the podcast so it feels good that they are fans of ours. Get your smug on!

Poolesville Droppage - Better Late Than Never

You

Got

Dropped!!

Thanks to new photog on the scene, Cadence and Cogs for capturing the carnage.

Douchebag of the Week #2 - Floyd Landis

Thanks you Floyd!! We were running out of material. Now we'll have stuff for the rest of the month.

Reason #1 Floyd is a Super Douche.

Floyd Fairness Fund

YGD Jerseys? Check, check it check it out

YGD has collaborated with Rage Cycling from Santa Barbara, California to bring you the ultimate jersey for your group ride. Just make sure you have the legs to back it up, homie.

Jerseys will be dropping Summer 2010...soon We'll keep you posted for sure. In the meantime, drop us photos of you guys in the tee shirts. Is Jared the only one that can drop into a park, find a bikini clad female minding her own business, and get her to pose with him wearing a super fresh YGD Tee Shirt? So far, he's the only entry. We don't want him to win. He owns a bike shop. He already gets stuff for free. (yes, we overused the word drop here. we know). Hell, Lance is sitting on two of these shirts and we still haven't seen him with a raccoon, possum, or bobcat or any of his other furry friends.

Next post will REALLY be about somebody getting dropped.

Get Yo Ass Upgraded - Alex Wieler

Where the hell did this kid come from? Where ever it was, it must be the land of fast because of the three MABRA Cat 3 races we have noted him in, he's won, placed 2nd, and won. Not sure if that's enough for an upgrade but we assume he had points before this or he'll get them soon. Also not sure if the upgrade request is in. Either way, Alex Wieler, Get Yo Ass Upgraded.

2nd Ft. Ritchie

1st - Murad RR

1st Leonardtown Crit

Now...let's go find some droppage pics. It's getting too cozy in here.

Douchebag of the Week - Tacky Teenagers

What would we have done if we crashed out because of these things? We would have found the guys that threw these things on the ground and beat the living crap out of them. Maybe that's why none of us are politicians or a teacher or something wholesome, like a priest.

For you non MABRAites out there. We had a little incident at one of our races with some local yocals threw out some of these nice little carpet tacks on the corners of a superfast crit course. What is wrong with people? Word on the street is there is a pending investigation. No posse needed.

Check out helmet cam footage here. Most MABRAites have already seen this. These guys went down pretty effing hard because of some jacked up actions of some idiots who think crashing grown men on expensive bikes is funny. YGD did notice some suspicious, cackling group of teens hanging out near that corner for most of the day. Dumb ditty dumb dumb dumb.

Getting Caught by Women

The following video was sent by a fan...in Washington state no less.

We don't know. After getting dropped, we wouldn't mind sitting in on a women's peloton. We imagine you can find a few beauts to look to get you through being dropped. Still, shameful bro. Not impressing any of them, however.

---------(excerpt from email)

So if you watch this video starting at 1:11 it looks like this guy is dropping the field, but wait, there is a little surprise waiting....

It turns out this guy was dropped from the masters race and is being caught by the women's cat 4 field that started five minutes behind him.

Michelob Ultra Grand Prix Cat 4 Women 2010 Glenwood, Washington from RideITLikeUstoleIT on Vimeo.

Sneak Peak

Utah Droppage - We're Nationwide

Through the power of the interweb, we have discovered that people are tuning in. We have analytics and all that stuff..but the power is in the t-shirt! We've shipped to North Carolina, South Carolina, FloRida, Louisiana, California, Oregon, and even Japan...twice. But we have never sent our famous black tee to Orin Hatch country, the Beehive State, land of Joe Smith, The Utes...UTAH!

We'd like to thank this droppee who goes by the name 'Lozy.' Lozy sent us in a photo of his droppage feat all the way from Utah, the land of milk and honey where he managed to get dropped in the Antelope Island Road Race in classic conditions.

Good luck drowning your sorrows at the bar. The beer is only 2.5% alcohol. Let's hope he has multiple wives. On second thought, we redact that last statement.

PA Droppage - Now on MD Soil

We are always intrigued by out of area competition. We noticed a lot of DNFs from a certain team from PA. Just sayin'

The Other Mike - "I got all BRILF'ed Up!"

wE haVe MaD PHOToShop Skillz!!!

During implosion. "Houston, we have a problem."

Michael Flanagan - Get Yo Ass Upgraded!

We understand the request is in but is in the "holding process." Maybe this performance at Fort Ritchie's Cat 3 race was the push that an upgrade coordinator needs. Are Irish eyes are smiling for Michael Flanagan?

"This way to Cat 2?"

"Oh, I have to pull these fools around and then drop them first? Ok."

"I'm bored but I think I can make this look good. "

"I can't wait to race with Chuckles and Ruggles in a few hours."

The Perfect Storm

A technical crit course

Windy conditions

Half a dozen photographers

We will have several posts this week.

Tuesday Night Ride - Dike Mavis

there once was a fast guy on a bike

let's call this 'fictitious' person mike

he downgraded to race

so he could try to save face

and now rides like he's on a trike

he went on a tuesday night ride

only so he could show his pride

he lined up with the rest

to show everybody his best

but all he did was GET DROPPED!

Turkey Hill Country Droppage

ast week it was Anthony Skorchod from PA. This week, Joe Mallis produces some high quality images that we can simply slide right in and move along with.

The Turkey Hill Country Classic is one of the best races in the Mid-Atlantic. Not only is the course selective with the inclusion of 'The Gamber Wall', there is free ice cream, hot dogs, and other post race recovery food for racers and spectators.

This fellow was on his way UP the Gamber Wall. It's events like this that remind us that push ups are very important during the off season.

And here we are with some run of the mill droppage. First of all a skin suit?. In a road race? Negative style points for this, especially with 85 degree temps. Negative functionality points as well. We will offset this with his inclusion of Hincapie leg veins. Anyway, if you look at this photo by itself, there really isn't anything to it. In fact, it's quite the awesome. If one were this rider, one might download this and hang it on the fridge.

However, keep on clicking through.

Paperboy Style! Homeskillet's bike is almost perpendicular to the yellow line. Ultra severe hurting droppage alert.

Give me one moment in time....

The saying 'a picture tells a thousand words' has been around a very very long time. It's never more fitting than when somebody sends us their own photo of droppage.

So much to take in here. Two riders, both dropped. We wonder what is going through their minds at this precise moment? How many more laps to go? What race is this? Spectators in the background show no emotion for these riders. Most are engulfed in their own conversations as if these riders, and the race, simply do not matter.

Christian Williams sends us this one via Twitter from his race at the Bunny Hop Criterium. He's the rider in the blue, head held low. He can hang his head high today because he's on You Got Dropped. Hats off to CW for sending this all in and having a great attitude. If eating humble pie was so easy for everybody. Also check out his full YGD inspired blog post.

and the video...

Now..we gotta get back to calling people out....lots of photos to sift through.

Photo Contest Entry 1 - Young Women Harassed at Public Parks

Remember last week we announced a photo contest? Readers, send us your photos of you wearing your You Got Dropped tee shirt. We don't care what you are doing, but posing with some chick in a bikini that you meet in the park is a good start. Lance, you are eligible to win. We can only think of what you are going to send us. Yougotdropped@gmail.com

Get Yo Ass Upgraded

We'd like to introduce a new feature here at You Got Dropped. Get Yo Ass Upgraded has been developed for riders who a) think they should get upgraded but can't wait to hear back from the upgrade coordinator or b) other riders who think their brethren (i.e. sandbaggers) need to submit a request.

This was a hot topic last summer as a few Cat 3s wanted to stay put in their category to win a jersey. We thought this should be addressed before sandbagging becomes an epidemic in the Mid Atlantic this year.

Our first case: Andrew Bridges - Haymarket Bicycles. Something must be in the water out in Haymarket, Virginny. Joe Dombroski slays the first couple races. The elite team are down south representing at Speedweek, and Andrew Bridges podiums in every Cat 3 race he enters.

Andrew Bridges: Get Yo Ass Upgraded

First at Carl Dolan

2nd at Chantilly

1st at Tysons

2nd at Vint Hill (teammate off the front with win)

Andrew, we hope that YGD will help you Get Yo Ass Upgraded.

And for all you sandbaggers out there, we are open for business.

Why Mark Cavendish is the Shiznat and MABRA Doesn't Like Racing in May

He has the best victory salutes. After journalists had written him off throughout the spring because of an abscess in one of those pearly whites, our boy wins stage 2 of Tour de Romandie and comes up with this salute. Baller. Better than the DZ Nuts or HTC Salute? Possibly.

We, at YGD, enjoy this confidence.

Meanwhile, American ProTour teams are at Tour of the Gila beating up on each other, USA Cycling is talking about CX Time Trials for qualifiers, and all kinds of fast is going on down south during speedweek.

Perhaps the biggest news of the week is that two local races, Murad Road Race and Bunny Hop have a combined 54 entries for the 'elite' races. Are we missing something? What else is going on this weekend? Is there a Lilith Festival going on that we don't know about? We know there are a handful of guys doing speedweek. Slower people, this is your chance to POUNCE LIKE A NINJA!!

Even the Cat 4 race at Murad still has room in it. This year, Jefferson Cup filled up in 1 minute. It's a wonderful race but it is over 2 hours away. Weather can be iffy at best in late March. Anybody remember the year it got cancelled because of snow? Murad is just down the street for most of MABRA, at least the DC based contingent. It's very similar race as Jeff Cup and the weather is going to be in the 80 degree range. Chances of getting dropped are low. Bunny Hop is well run, you probably won't get dropped, and it's right off the beltway.

MABRA MABRA MABRA...we'll never understand you. Bill 'Lucky' Lueke, send us your graphical analysis of why this is so.

Fashion Police

Coming to America...To Get Dropped!!

Every so often a gem pops into the email basket here at YGD HQ. Frequent EuroNeoPro/MABRA visitor Sim Green has done guest stints for Haymarket, NCVC, and others for local MABRA races normally sporting his euro pro shorts and tall skinny pale frame.

Many of us quiver at the thought of going up against somebody who has been competing across the pond all season long. The truth is he's hates racing in the states, particularly crits. Sim is humble enough to send us his own 'I got dropped' photo along with a laundry list of excuses with his British twang. So, Sim, your wish has been granted. You Got Dropped!

I got dropped!

I think this blog is a load of fun! Although this droppage pic of me getting dropped good and proper is a little old, I’m sending it in in the hope of making YouGotDropped headlines for my 2 seconds of fame! I love the light hearted approach of YouGotDropped, and I love taking the piss out of situations and people. I figure, if you can’t take the piss out of yourself; 1) you can’t justify taking the piss out of others, and 2) where’s the fun in life?

So I thought I’d send in this pic of last year’s Tour of Ephrata Crit with my own caption/explanation.

As anyone who knows me knows, I can’t ride a crit to save my life. I hate them with a vengeance. Luckily for me, stage races are not allowed to include crits in most countries but the US.

At the 2009 Tour of Ephrata I was guest riding for NCVC. I was dangling off the back of the crit all day long (well not really all day, it was only about an hour long in total anyway). I was suffering like a dog, hanging on for dear life, picking bar tape out of my teeth. Thankfully someone was there to take photographic evidence of my talented crit suckage!

My excuse is this. I didn’t know I was going to be doing Ephrata until a couple days before the start. I had raced the Tour of the Battenkill the previous weekend and had kept riding with some fairly big miles all week. So I showed up to Ephrata pretty buggered. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. Of course the truth is that I just plain suck!

Apologies to NCVC for the disgrace of their jersey, and at the same time, thank you to NCVC for having me for Ephrata!

Sim

Douchebag of the Week - Vino

Vino..for his Liège-Bastogne-Liège win. Normally, a win doesn't get you a 'Douchebag of the Week' award. You Got Dropped is among the thousands of fans booing this win. Usually, when this stuff is about to go down, other teams figure out a way to put a guy like this in the gutter, just coming off a 2 year ban for doping and all. It's been a great classics season..until now. We hope he is clean and not on supersonic radioactive Kazak goat milk. Only time will tell.

By the way, socks will be here in about 3-4 weeks. Just in time for your mid summer burn out. Save up. 4 inch and 5 inch cuffs. Black and white. We can all get along.

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We, at YGD, enjoy this confidence.