http://www.hulu.com/watch/4156

What’s this I hear? Is it true that “doping control” showed up @ the Team Invitational Lou Maltese race to do random testing? Anyone out there know about this or what happened? I know Lisbon did the P/1/2 race in the UNITED kit.

Promoters and officials like to talk about jogger’s lane rules, but there’s practically no enforcement. Same thing Saturday at R&A. A wonder wheel rider sprinter most of the way in the joggers lane for the second sprint jersey points. Guys consistently moved up in the rec lane, particularly on the final lap. Enforce the rule or quit going on and on about it.

end of story. rules schmules.

Pics or it didn’t happen. Who’s got them?

I counted 10 on the line. I wasn’t the only one. But again you ass, I don’t care about the rule (it’s stupid) I care how CRCA applies its rules – inconsistently.

I was going slow enough to see several photographers on both Saturday and Sunday.

Where are the pics?

Huge Thank you to Victor Chan for the phenomenal photography! It’s amazing how you are able to capture so much of the emotions and races as a whole and in such vivid detail!! Thanks Victor – please keep up the great work. We appreciate it immensely!!

hot damn! no marte. no lisbon. no ???? no anybodys for that matter!! quick – now’s my chance, i’m signing up cuz now i can finally place in the top 15. by the way, what ever happened to roger aspholm? he was pre-registered for the maltese race this past sunday, but was a no-show. did he happen to know something was going down?

will the THC make me faster?

It does but I can’t remember why

Stalin, Marte, and the entire Somerville team? You guys don’t even have the skill to hide your racism.

If any of you see any Montecci cycling member braking any rule, you can report it to me. We all aware about the recreational lane’s rules and the outcome it may bring. We were pushed, blocked, even someone handle a big elbow to Kelvin at Harlem Hill to pass the recreational lane. I don’t want to think this is a biased pursued, but about 6 people were DQ for this reason, none of them ware a member of our team. If you have the number or name of the suspect, give it to me, we were only 4 guys racing on Sunday.

Henry, thanks for putting that out there. Its always a pleasure to race with you and there is no bias against your team, but one guy did repeatedly use the rec lane, not because he was pushed out but to advance through the field. I believe his number was 228. He was called out about it several times during the race, but still continued to do it. I understand that bumping or dangerous situations happen that may require a trip into the rec lane, but under no circumstance should a rider use it to move up in the field. Your team races hard and does well, lets just keep it in bounds and safe for all.

All you wanna be “racers” crack me up . . . . Complaining because you were DQ’d in a CP race? Get real . . . .

Baaaaa haaaa haaaaa.

This is a big issue. It sounds like from recent emails from Charlie “I” that NYYC is getting upset and considering shutting down racing in the parks. I could also so the number of crashes and riders being carried off in stretchers becoming a reason for permits not to be issued.

Yes! That’s the rub not the cheating. Some dick riding in the rec lane getting us shut down. It could easily happen by buzzing the wrong person during a race. I am surprised we get to race at all. Call these jerks out.

Where / which race did the do the testing?

I’m voting for Weiner

OK now would be a good time to “come clean” and get ahead of the french senate report on 1998 TDF doping. I didn’t dope in 1998 or ever!
Yours truly,
locale Cat3 club racer

http://www.cyclingrevealed.com/Nov12/TdFChamps_Info.html

Vieri –

Go volunteer to run it better.

USADA dictated the procedures, not CRCA, and they generally know what they’re doing, testing being generally what they do.

i don’t believe CRCA Bungled anything. and yes, there were chaperones immediately after the podium to escort those being tested. And, according to a chaperone, without mentioning names, they DID pick a 4th random guy from the top 10 to be tested. as to slamming a saline bag in the randles shitter after the race, although I dont doubt it, i cant attest to the veracity of that

There were three chaperones, three riders, three USADA officials, three cups divided into six flasks, and one hotel room. Any forth “rider” and “chaperone” doing something in the Rambles involving “bad touch” or bikini-area or producing samples was not part of official USADA activity.

sommerville doesn’t have a team, do they?

gotcha. my bad. was thinking you meant sommerville sports.

Dark skin AND Spanish speaking = double-questionable legitimacy.
I understand 😉 😉

Not quite. Their ability to have a local shop team that is on par with the biggest Domestic Elite teams and nearly at the level of pro teams is why they raise eyebrows. They’ve taken top 3 at just abotu every race they enter. At the NJ state road race they started attacking the breakaway at 45mi from the finish on a 93 degree day. The winner from their team won by minutes solo. They are good competition. I’m not accusing them nor do I think they’ve done anything. But I do think that if USADA happens to be around tehse guys are worth looking into.

But at your point of dark skinned and latino = suspicious. I think we need to recognize that more recently suspected dopers on the local scene have fit that description. So it is a stereotype in the making right now. There was Lisban in 2010, Sanchez at Fort Lee this past year who lapped the 1/2 field solo and then attacked the field and in this case the Somerville guys who podium everything and have even managed to make Rafi, one of the fastest riders in NJ look like a schlub. So it is questionable.

Hey Froomie, you are not just stereotyping people, you are profiling them. What are you, a cycling cop? Are you going to stop and test every rider who fits your description? But as Hater69 (who hates 69 anyway?) rightly remarks, your statistics are weak. Who knows how many may take this or that who are never tested and caught? But then, as the NRA of cycling might say, the best defense against an EPO-carrying “mediocre old white guy” may be a Spanish-speaking, whatever skinned EPO-carrying rider. Just ride and enjoy it.

who’s profiling or being racist??? roger aspholm was mentioned earlier in this string as being suspect after his “no-show” despite being pre-regged for Maltese. he’s about as white as you can get.