This Week in Pro Cycling!

Floyd Landis retired.
Floyd, I don't know what to think about you. On one hand, you cheated your ass off. On the other, I'd cheat too if Lance kept on jizzing on me year after year.



Then you went and spent all your winnings on that sweet chincilla coat, leaving you no funds to lawyer up..so you started this Free Floyd Fund, another total lie.



Enjoy retirement, Floyd.

Read the SI article (below) to learn why Landis isn't planning on pulling espresso at Starbucks anytime soon. Hint: Government whistleblower kickback for ratting out all his boys.

Lance Armstrong in Sports Illustrated
Blah blah blah..blah blah blah. More direct evidence to assume Lancalot is finally going to get popped. What's that you say? This time is for realz? You bet your sweet Sheryl Crow oversize sunglasses it is. The United States Gubmint is cracking the whip. Why are the US Feds getting involved? Fraud!!! Millions of Americans were led to believe Lance wasn't doped to the gills during his tenure with the Postal Service, a bona fide government agency.

It even gets more complicated than that. The SI story is finally a story about cycling and doping worth reading. The sport isn't short of these either. The biggest thing I got out of the whole SI article is that the Bears are heading to the NFC East Championship Game (the cover of SI that week) and that Lance and almost everybody else in cycling during that time period was juicing more than Jack Lalanne.

Lance-armstrong.37.b
Never taken a single PED. Seriously.

Contador to face 1 year Suspension..Maybe
So it looks like we'll see by this Thursday if Contador will face a one year suspension. If that happens, will tour organizers revoke his 2010 Tour de France victory? Will the drama of CHAINGATE be for naught?



Thoughts on this chick in the yellow swimsuit besides awesome tanlines.





There is so much more going on right now..I can't keep up. Maybe this means more postings?

Caption Contest - Winter Announcement Euro Pillow Sponsor Version

Caption Contest - So many things to say. Comments...PLEASE!!!

Haymarket Stories - We want them!!

Jared over at Haymarket Bicycles has put his energy into organizing the now infamous Haymarket Winter Bike League race/ride series.  Go to the Facebook page here to learn more about the 4 part series, hear stories, and see photos of guys like Jeff Trinh and John Cutler show off their grit face after the inaugural event this past Sunday.

The guys at Cutaway Clothing also put together some pretty sweet t shirts and hoodies to commemorate the event. Buy that stuff here.

You Got Dropped is happy to support this event with a handful of door prizes. We hope you like them and we wish we could do more.

In the meantime, go to the Facebook page and share your stories...If you got/get dropped, feel free to share them here either in the comment section here or email them. This is a safe place. Promise.

The next Haymarket Winter Bike League event is this Sunday, January 9th.

Chicago Style

OMG OMG OMG!!

A Chicago reader submission. 

A giant blueman racing in snow. A mariachi band band playing under the Specialized tent. A spectator dressed as Superman, another as a nun, and another with a vuvuzela. This is awesome. 

Black Tuesday and Sven Nys has Balls of Steel

We are having such a good time putting stuff in envelopes we decided to extend Black Monday to...BLACK TUESDAY!!! (echo echo echo). 


We are running out of socks, especially large. Plenty of mediums and some extra larges.Lots and lots of smalls left. We probably won't order more socks for a long while so this is it.

Shipping is free on embrocation but will be delayed since we have to brew up a new batch. Eight bucks. 


We'll leave you with some World Cup droppage. We haven't seen a pedal controversy like this since Lance unclipped from his DuraAce in LeTour.  We weren't able to embed but PLEASE go over to the Cyclocross Channel on YouTube and fast forward to 10:00 and watch the final minutes of Superprestige Gieten. 


http://www.youtube.com/user/cyclocrosschannel#p/u/0/2Z3SUw4OPPQ

Bart Wellens "I swallow pain killers. "

You would to, if this happened....




Man, the pros even CRASH better than us.


Article here