Off-Topic for 09/13/2010 – 02:00

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31 Comments

Nicolas Pulley

Long-time CRCA members are forming a new CRCA subteam for strong Cat 4s with and without an interest in upgrading. We have a title sponsor and will have 10 +/- riders in 2011. If you raced Cat 4 in 2010 or before, or Cat 5 in 2010 for a team that provided substantial coaching and are interested, please send an email to:

centralparkcyclingteam@yahoo.com

with the following information:

Name
Racing Age in 2010
Cat
2010 Team, if any
Race resume/experience

OH, and bring on the Cat 4 jokes…because they never get old…

happy to oblige

cat 4 jokes will continue until “strong cat 4’s” with no ambition to upgrade stop banding together into groups that self-identify as “strong”

hmmm

A cat 5 with experience in 10 races walks into a bar with a dog, claiming the dog can talk. “I’ll show you for a beer,” he says. The bartender slides a beer to him, and the cat 5 with experience in 10 races asks the dog, “Fido, what is that above our heads?” The dog says, “Rooff!” The irritated bartender says, “That’s just a bark, try again.” The cat 5 with experience in 10 races says, “OK, how about this – Fido, who was the best baseball player of all time?” The dog says, “Rooth!” Annoyed, the bartender then throws both of them out, and the dog says, “Sorry, ya think I shouldda said DiMaggio?”

ha!

“Anywhere from 15 to 25 masters, elite and pro cyclists have been notified of non-analytical violations as a result of having allegedly conspired with Papp,”

i usually don’t give half a rat’s ass about doping at any level, but i can’t wait to see what master’s clowns were on juice. that is just too funny

Tristan Kevlar

lets see how many of Papp’s training friends will be schmeared…
TH where are you (Tour of Cuba, Univest???)???
MF….(America’s Cycling Team)???
a bunch of NE, NY, NJ, PA and Mid’West USA riders I would guess…

Vera Chainring

Any truth to the rumor why a NYC based team that had superior results at Bear decided to race against a field of mostly Cat 3’s as opposed to racing Univest?

Tristan Butyl

Sir, are you implying that there’s something odd and suspicious about Mengoni’s revolving carrousel of Dominicans that seem to win races without taking deep breaths?

That’s just crazy.

????

ummm, was the Bear field really “mostly Cat 3’s”? It looked to be more of the higher category riders present, with the majority of the 3’s not even bothering to register out of self-preservation.

Tristan Butyl

I couldn’t care less whether they were Dominicans or WASPs from Connecticut, but they happen to be the former.

Anthony Axle

Your accusation is completely based on the fact the persons you accused are Dominican. The fact that they are national caliber athletes is meaningless to you. You are nothing but a rumor mongering troll.

ERgometor

Nittany was fun but CX is getting out of control. 90% of the racers were on carbon cross bikes with carbon tubs and a nice pit bike. The vibe was a bit intense with guys refusing to take warm up laps out of fear of loosing their start position. The growth of the sport is nice but the vibe is a changin…

Nicolas Pulley

There IS something pathological in Papp’s behavior – in defending himself, in admitting his guilt, in the way he is fingering and calling out other dopers. He’s Floyd with 1/2 a brain – and that might be even more demented.

Aaron Limit Screw

Gas chamber? Lethal injection? Firing squad? Crushing by giant elephant?

Seriously, this man seems like a waste of life.

Elias Bartape

Papp was so good on the bike, if it weren’t for his drug problems he coulda made it to a solid D3 regional team and challenged for wins at races like the prestigious Sapulpa Route 66 Criterium. Now that’s a real shame when folks be throwin’ away a perfectly good white boy like that.

Lars Internal Routing

Papp and his Cubano split within a year or two of getting married. Not clear if the immigration thing was the reason – didn’t sound like that was the whole story.

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