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Lost River Part 1

OMG! We take off a few days of posting and we receive message after message reminding us of Giro droppage...Lost River droppage...and upcoming Page Valley droppage. We admit, we dropped the ball on this. In our own self defense there was a Golden Girls marathon on Lifestyle this weekend .

Lost River. Where to start? For the novice poster, this may seem like an easy race to call out droppage. But no! Racers are all over the course. In packs. Off the back in packs. Solo off the front. Solo off the back. In bushes. Hiding. Anarchy.

Before we get going on the droppage, we just want to state that Jose Escobar is a baaaad ass. He is dropping dudes like 1/2 a mile back and then grittin at the camera. All hail Jose. I'll take a salty oatmeal cookie while I watch you climb a mountain.

Is this dude seriously wearing compression socks?

You are about to get compressed into the DNF zone.

A blog by no other name.
Nick Versus Gravity is illustrated here.Check out the socks. We believe in the big fella.

What's blue and white and usually crashes in crits?

Easy find here. Moto ref = droppage

Thanks to Linc Brooks for this non copyrighted album. Stay tuned for more Lost River droppage while we dissect another album.

Mountain Bikers are Weird

Caption Contest

It's been awhile since we had a caption contest. We stole this photo from an album called "Omaha Cycling Weekend '10" that we found while looking at GamJams-Midwest. Did you know about this? Anyway, people in the midwest are boring for so many reasons.

P.R. Strategy from your friendos at YGD. Next year, call your race something cool like 'Nebraskacon' or 'A Field of Threshold' or 'The Cycling is Better than Corn Criterium'

Anyway...look at this photo and make funny comments on it.

Floyd - From Douchebag of the Week to YGD Poster Boy? We hope so!!

In case you haven't heard, Floyd Landis is signed up and racing the Cascade Classic Stage Race in Bend, OR. The promoter said something like "as long as he doesn't bring a circus with him, we don't mind him racing."

The circus that Landis has brought with him is a Dateline news crew and Floyd's inability to find a jersey before the opening prologue.

We don't know why, but we think the grey tee shirt is awesome and have forgiven Floyd for cheating during the TDF and ripping people off with the Floyd Fairness Fund.

So..The grey tee shirt has made up for everything and because of this, Floyd, are you reading?...We would like to sponsor you!! Free socks, jersey, and podium tee for you. All you have to do is email us at yougotdropped@gmail.com. We've made this whole blog post a link to our email. Make it happen.

Anatomy of a Drop

We love these helmet cams. Thank God some people have the balls to post when the race goes pear shaped.

via DCupps at the Iron Hill Twilight Cat 3 Crit. This is what getting dropped is all about.

Iron Hill Cat 3 Crit (by DCupps) from Bikelink on Vimeo.

Once upon a time...

...there were patrons who would fall down, get back up, cut through mountain switchbacks to avoid conflict, and have the respect of the field to wait for him if shit did go down. Not so much anymore. There is no joy in Mudville.

Josh Flexman...Get Yo Ass Upgraded

Just off the top of our heads..here is the palmeres of Josh Flexman this year. We are probably missing a few due to laziness of actually looking at USA Cycling.

Tysons 123 - 3rd
Kelly Cup - 1st
Crystal Cup 3/4 - 1st
Fourth of July Race - 1st
Hagerstown Crit Champs 1st

Basically, anything that ends in a sprint, this dude propels faster than anybody else.

What's the Fourth of July Criterium? We don't know but it's in Davis, California. That's far. Flex went out there and pummeled the pretty cali boys, got on his private jet, then did it here locally.

By the way, we got some good photos from this Davis event. Flexman Zabeled this dude!!!

Tour de You Got Dropped

We are tinkering around with sponsoring a local team next year but who would it be? If we sponsored a team, does that mean we would have to promote a race? It couldn't since a few 'elite' teams don't do any of that.

.A picture says a thousand words...but it's more fun to put a few together and make our own race. Ladies and gentleman, the first Tour de YGD.

The racers all gathered in the parking lot before the race to get prepared

Soon after, the pack rolled out. As always, there are always a couple guys who try to animate the race early.

The race started. Adam from Dominion Cycling drilled it followed by red jersey hairy leg guy wearing workshop glasses.

The pace was...'screaming'

There was a crash mid-pack. People got horizontal.

There was carnage all around. Chuck Hutch was dropped. He couldn't chase back on.

Spectators were leaving. (we give this lady a solid 7 with Reston standards in mind.)

As always...'things' happen

Strange things happen

Then Joe Jefferson wore this shirt. Police came and called the shirt a crime scene and blocked the area.

This unnamed racer got off the front. It started snowing and his road bike turned into a mountain bike!

Then the refs soon called one lap to go

Not everybody was in position

and the winner is of the first Tour de You Got Dropped is:

Rider: You Got Dropped
Team: You Got Dropped Cycling presented by You Got Dropped

The Tour de You Got Dropped is Part of the You Got Dropped Cup
Sponsored by You Got Dropped
Yay!! We are awesome and annoying!!!

'eight' plus 'two' - we get it now.

Hi there. This photo is of Eightplustwo.com. We like his blog. He likes ours. He seems like a nice guy. He spent his hard earned cash on a tee shirt. Thanks for the love.

We love photos. We love this photo. It is sent in from Cycling Captured. A few observations.

- the shorts.

- the tattoo

- the size of the shirt (showing off the guns and the tat. FLEX TIME!!)

- the smirk

- the placement of hand appears he is holding his junk (is that the' plus two' he references). Is the eight something 'else' than hours worked per day. If so... Kudos.

Slow

It's been busy at YGD HQ lately. However, our muse has been on strike. We left it up to a reader submission today. The original YGD trike sighting?

Viva Fuentes!

We are hoping The Mexicutioner mends quickly. Get well.

explain

Sock Sightings - Too Hot Fuentes

Congrats to Dave Fuentes for a 2nd place at Clarendon Cup US Air Force Classic by Northrup Grumman formally the CSC Invitational presented by Comcast which replaced The Washington Times Capitol Criterium that used to go on Virginia Avenue.

anyway, homie wearing our socks yo!

Caption Contests - All Week Long

The pros were in town. Even they get dropped during hot, fast action.

Reader Submission - The North Face, eh

When we first started this thing, it was just a little blog to lighten up the mood of our local racing scene. We picked on a few guys a bit too much. We made enemies. We made friends. We made some laugh. We made some roll their eyes.

Even though we hang onto our core values, YGD has evolved quite a bit. We've been pimping gear like socks and tees for a few months now and always get a kick when somebody from Japan or Canada send in an order. Think of it, some touc wearing, maple syrup drinking canuck from Toronto is going to be rocking some YGD socks this weekend in their office park igloo races.

We digress. We also have a little email button at the top where we ask our readers to send in photos and occasionally we get a submission from out of the area. The power of the interweb!! These could be photos they took of others getting the drop or it could be a photo of them getting the drop. Friday's submission came from a reader in the Yukon Territory. We had to look up where that was. We've mapped it out for all the geographically challenged.

So thanks to our reader from the great white north for sending in one of the most scenic photos we've had on YGD. As he puts it "That black dot in the background is me, getting dropped on the first (and only) climb in this race."

So, Anthony from Yukon Territory, YOU GOT DROPPED

You Got Fanged!!

Harry Fang has been out on the streets with his point and shoot. He's getting better. Bike racers are now in focus rather than the trees and buildings in the background. He also has developed an eye for droppage as displayed at one of the easiest races on the MABRA calendar.

Ride Sally Ride this past weekend was a 3 corner course with wide open lanes and no elevation. You could ride a lazy boy in this race and still finish. There were some Cat 4s who proved us wrong. How does this even happen?

SOCKS! SOCKS! SOCKS! SOCKS! SOCKS! SOCKS! SOCKS! SOCKS! SOCKS!SOCKS! SOCKS! SOCKS!

Many have been asking. We've been listening. Then waiting. Then waiting. Then waiting some more. Now, they are here, ready for your feet. Ready for you to do some smacktalking of your own.

Socks are on sale over to the right. Over there ----->>>

These are euro style, from our friends at DeFeet. They are also made from CoolMax Eco, a material developed from recycled water bottles.

White socks will give you a four inch cuff while the black take it up a notch to 5 inches. Why not?

We put the classic trike logo on the front of the cuff and the initials "YGD" horizontally down the back, right along the Achilles.

Team pricing available.

fuhgeddaboudit

"yo whadya lookin at, bucco? You like my shirt? I think it goes good with the gold chain and my jersey attitude. Heyyyyy! Racin' was good this weekend but I didn't come up with any scharole. Notagot. You seen The Situation around? We are supposed get some ganouls after this thing."