the harder they fall...
holy eff. this one is messed up.
hoping that those two fellows are healthy.
A Handful from Beacon Cross
I have a sudden urge to go get a tiny dog and go get brunch.
Something doesn't look right with this
This photo is just plain rad.
holy crap this is even more awesome!! Grandma in natz colors. WiCKED!!
Thanks to Anthony at CyclingCaptured for these good shots. Cross is AWESOME.
We have to admit, when this blog started, it was to make a point. To get people to lighten up as far as their 'fitness' and 'results' and put the type A personalities aside for one second. Cross already does that..well, at least for a couple more years maybe.
Something doesn't look right with this
This photo is just plain rad.
holy crap this is even more awesome!! Grandma in natz colors. WiCKED!!
Thanks to Anthony at CyclingCaptured for these good shots. Cross is AWESOME.
We have to admit, when this blog started, it was to make a point. To get people to lighten up as far as their 'fitness' and 'results' and put the type A personalities aside for one second. Cross already does that..well, at least for a couple more years maybe.
CX Drop Drop Go
Granogue
The Hills.
The Mud.
Fall has arrived.
Go fast
Go too fast.
Overcooking turns.
Cyclingcaptured captured it.
Back on the move.
brought to you by sram..and those yellow shoes that everybody wears now...and that guy's ankle tattoo.
YGD Cross Shirts Now Ready
We finally got off our ass and got cracking on the YGD Cross shirt. Thanks to the twitter love to give us the push. Whether you podium or you get your ass handed to you, this is a good look for post race beer and frites.
$14.00 and free shipping now through November 1st. Then you can go get deals someplace else we heard.
Pain Face
Oh..let's all sing the praises of PSYCHOCROSS!!! PUNK ROCK BIKES INSTENSE!!! BEER!! FRITES!
At first glance, these photos by Sigberto (the most humble guy in the peloton by the way) shows the spirit of cross.
The rider cresting a hill, pain face in full swagger, you can feel the lactic acid threshold expiring quickly.
In the background, some dude in a cyling cap and belgie colors drinking a beer. It's. SO.
PERFECT!!!
Reality check: you got dropped
YGD Embrocation now on the Shelves
Hey friendos. We've been moving and shaking all summer long trying to get the mix of ingredients just right for the launch of our YGD Embrocation. We've been dabbling for years making small batches of homemade goodness for our own personal supply. We want to share that goodness with our readers this fall with our first batch which we simply call "YGD Mild."
Our embrocation is made with local beeswax, shea butter, massage oils, and just a touch of heat. YGD Mild is perfect for any climate between 50 degree and raining to 70 degrees and sunny. We have a small batch ready for our readers at $11.00 with free shipping to anywhere in the lower 48.
Now back to the droppage.
The Best Cycling Photo of All Time?
I call this photo "White Sex Speeding Past Rural Farm"
A few observations:
Triple chainring.
Tubes slung around shoulder similar to tour racers, 80 years ago.
This is a triathlon. WHERE IS YOUR AERO HELMET...BRAH??
What I would pay to see his tramp stamp.
Good on this dude for being out there making it happen. Baller.
Time to go look at cyclocross photos.
Charming Photo Essay
Man, Cross is really tough to pick out who got dropped. Let's face it, cross isn't about getting dropped. It's about having a good time while strapping on for 45 minutes to an hour for a nice little visit in the pain cave.
YGD is ready for the cross season. It's here, folks. This past weekend, a few lucky YGD readers blasted the sweet smell of YGD embrocation in Baltimore for Charm City Cross presented by twenty20cycling. Speaking of YGD embrocation, samples of the first batch were just sent over to the Ed Sanders Lilypons promoters for prizes. It will be ready for public consumption soon but for now, you have to win it by riding fast.
We'll have to hone our skill about picking out getting dropped in cross races. BUT we did find a few great shots on Joe Mallis' photo site and have given some proper titles. These, are just the tip of the iceberg, we think. You cross racers are a wild bunch.
We call this one "The Stache"
The Irony
Proper Form
Reverse Blogging
Proper Form II
Unholy
More to come later. Joe Mallis is a godsend.
YGD is ready for the cross season. It's here, folks. This past weekend, a few lucky YGD readers blasted the sweet smell of YGD embrocation in Baltimore for Charm City Cross presented by twenty20cycling. Speaking of YGD embrocation, samples of the first batch were just sent over to the Ed Sanders Lilypons promoters for prizes. It will be ready for public consumption soon but for now, you have to win it by riding fast.
We'll have to hone our skill about picking out getting dropped in cross races. BUT we did find a few great shots on Joe Mallis' photo site and have given some proper titles. These, are just the tip of the iceberg, we think. You cross racers are a wild bunch.
We call this one "The Stache"
The Irony
Proper Form
Reverse Blogging
Proper Form II
Unholy
More to come later. Joe Mallis is a godsend.
That just happened
Hampton Bay Days VA State Age-graded Championships Master's 30+ finish, Cam Holland and Dan King are in the picture. Huge crowd.
No Pictures...Just Words
The YGD site has been rather quiet lately. Call it burnout. Call it a late season break. Call it whatever you would like. The fact of the matter has been that posts have been down here on the ol' website.
Sorry.
Just like many of you, we have been busy riding, taking vacation, staying off the bike..eating...whatever. We'll be back for cross very soon...and in a good way. So, photographers (and readers), we'll be keeping an eye out for your best droppage photos at the bikes that look like road bike but have knobby tires races. Please keep us in mind when you have that camera out. As always, you can send photos directly to us.
Cross is unique in the sense that many people will be experiencing their first races of this discipline ergo MUCHO DROPAGARO! So, racers, keep us in mind while you are tripping over barriers at Charm City or falling into ponds at Ed Sanders Memorial Race. In addition to photos, we want to open our blog up toexploit. celebrate your droppage with words turned into sentences into paragraphs and so on. We want to hear from you.
Of course, we want to help support cross and see it grow even more. This year, we'll be pitching in some of our tee shirts and socks for the Ed Sanders race on September 26th. Look for the classic YGD tee on the podium in Juniors races..right Pete Lindeman? And, of course, we'll be celebrating all the unique individuals who do the unique things they do at these unique cross races throughout the year on yougotdropped.com
We hope to build up YGD Site and community even more. We've heard a lot of great ideas about us doing this or that. Keep them coming. For the time being, we are keeping this organic. We'll be introducing a limited run of embrocation this fall. It will be new. It will be natural. It won't stain your brand new YGD socks. Most of all, it will give your legs the sense of warmth and quickness. If you would like to help distribute this at your cross races, contact us.
Also coming, our YGD Cross tee for everybody to pimp out at the races.
We hope that we can dump some money that we make back into the sport by sponsoring some teams next year with product and maybe even a little dough.
It's been a kick to be part of the cycling community this year, often overhearing guys and gals from all categories talking about not being featured on yougotdropped and so forth. If you were featured on our site this year, thanks for having a great sense of humor. That's what this website is supposed to be all about.
Sorry.
Just like many of you, we have been busy riding, taking vacation, staying off the bike..eating...whatever. We'll be back for cross very soon...and in a good way. So, photographers (and readers), we'll be keeping an eye out for your best droppage photos at the bikes that look like road bike but have knobby tires races. Please keep us in mind when you have that camera out. As always, you can send photos directly to us.
Cross is unique in the sense that many people will be experiencing their first races of this discipline ergo MUCHO DROPAGARO! So, racers, keep us in mind while you are tripping over barriers at Charm City or falling into ponds at Ed Sanders Memorial Race. In addition to photos, we want to open our blog up to
Of course, we want to help support cross and see it grow even more. This year, we'll be pitching in some of our tee shirts and socks for the Ed Sanders race on September 26th. Look for the classic YGD tee on the podium in Juniors races..right Pete Lindeman? And, of course, we'll be celebrating all the unique individuals who do the unique things they do at these unique cross races throughout the year on yougotdropped.com
We hope to build up YGD Site and community even more. We've heard a lot of great ideas about us doing this or that. Keep them coming. For the time being, we are keeping this organic. We'll be introducing a limited run of embrocation this fall. It will be new. It will be natural. It won't stain your brand new YGD socks. Most of all, it will give your legs the sense of warmth and quickness. If you would like to help distribute this at your cross races, contact us.
Also coming, our YGD Cross tee for everybody to pimp out at the races.
We hope that we can dump some money that we make back into the sport by sponsoring some teams next year with product and maybe even a little dough.
It's been a kick to be part of the cycling community this year, often overhearing guys and gals from all categories talking about not being featured on yougotdropped and so forth. If you were featured on our site this year, thanks for having a great sense of humor. That's what this website is supposed to be all about.
Scenes from a 40K
Church Creek Time Trial #2 by ABRT part of the MATTCup presented by...whatever.
Normally, TTs are tough for us to get a sense of droppage. However, Something must have been in the air last weekend. Did you all see Pete Custor's result? Strange things are happening at the Circle K. We miss Kyle at the events but his wife shows up in her daisy dukes and take good photos.
One of these three is getting dropped here.
It CAN'T be the Mayor of Hains Point, can it?
Reader submission. Mad props to this dude. Check the bike out. Wouldn't you take off the bar ends though?
Worst. Aero. Position. Ever.
"how long does 40K take? It's hot as balls out here." 
There is a nasty rumor that Chuck Hutch eats puppies for pre-race meals. Can anybody vouch for the whereabouts of this puppy?
Anatomy of a Drop - Glencoe Droppage
Getting dropped on the national stage. Good. Getting dropped on a national stage and posting it on YouTube. Better. Getting dropped and being on YGD. GREAT!!
Glencoe hosted crit championships a couple weeks ago and this gem was sent to us by a reader from the Windy City. These videos really are priceless. They absolutely show that fitness isn't the only reason frank mcbikerider gets his ass dropped. It's bike handling, taking corners, sprinting after every corner, and hearing strange computer beeps throughout your 10 minute race. To get to the droppage, go to 8 minutes. We've seen worse.
Glencoe hosted crit championships a couple weeks ago and this gem was sent to us by a reader from the Windy City. These videos really are priceless. They absolutely show that fitness isn't the only reason frank mcbikerider gets his ass dropped. It's bike handling, taking corners, sprinting after every corner, and hearing strange computer beeps throughout your 10 minute race. To get to the droppage, go to 8 minutes. We've seen worse.
How many kits does District Velocity go through in one season?
And why are we so disturbed by this photo?
BH-DSRTCT on Now on Facebook -
This morning in the YGD inbox there was a message from Chuck Hutch's Facebook account asking for us to 'like' the Battley Harley-Davidson/Sonoma Restaurant/Teaism Cycling Team.
Ok. No problem.
We were excited about the possibility of being part of the BHDSRTCT community so we investigated. We wanted to know more. This is our big chance to hang out cyberly with all our local cycling heros!! Our cyber sleuthing led us to click 'info' where we found even more info.
We saw photos. We made a friend or two. Then we saw a mission statement!
"We are an elite Mid-Atlantic Bicycle Racing Team competing on the MABRA, NRC and USA Crit Series circuits and proudly exposing our sponsors names to the general public."
This team has moved up one spot in our hearts. It's so easy to hate on them, but it's also easy to love with philosophical statements of purpose like the above. We wonder if Beavis or Butthead wrote this?
By the way..the season is almost over. Will Chuck resume his role as Godfather in Mafia Wars?
Ok. No problem.
We were excited about the possibility of being part of the BHDSRTCT community so we investigated. We wanted to know more. This is our big chance to hang out cyberly with all our local cycling heros!! Our cyber sleuthing led us to click 'info' where we found even more info.
We saw photos. We made a friend or two. Then we saw a mission statement!
"We are an elite Mid-Atlantic Bicycle Racing Team competing on the MABRA, NRC and USA Crit Series circuits and proudly exposing our sponsors names to the general public."
This team has moved up one spot in our hearts. It's so easy to hate on them, but it's also easy to love with philosophical statements of purpose like the above. We wonder if Beavis or Butthead wrote this?
By the way..the season is almost over. Will Chuck resume his role as Godfather in Mafia Wars?
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Dudes v. Chicks
For centuries, women have been battling for equality with men. Whether they are struggling for equal rights, voting privileges, equal job opportunities or even athletics, women have had to fight for the respect that they deserve since the beginning of time. The battle of equality in male and female athletics has been a problem for years; male sports have been accused of receiving better recognition in the sports they play, having more playing opportunities, receiving higher salaries, and attracting extra media coverage.
Buy a November bike. Help Mr. Kirkpatrick purchase a flash, or at least a reflection board, or a sundial.
YGD Sock Power
10th place at an industrial park crit is an ok result.
10th place at the Page Valley Road Race is a great result.
Proof that there is such a thing as "YGD Sock Power."
Hipsters of the world unite
You can now use your bike saddle as a bottle opener with this handy little gadget. Too bad PBR is a twist off.
With not much racing left on the MABRA calendar, those of us at YGD HQ might be cracking open a few ourselves pretty soon. What's on the menu for all our silly skinny bikearoxics?
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