Underdog Cyclists —Your Chance is Now!
Now is an amazing time for underdogs, low-level and hobbyist cyclists to do any feats they like, with panache, and steal the limelight, heart and soul of cycling away from the druggies!
While the pro’s are making a thorough mess of things, anyone with an interest will tend to look for very different human-interest stories, epics and events. So go for it!
Actually, if the pro’s are doing so much cheating, think about how much (might) be going on at the top local level which has decent $ but ZERO controls! (The Midwest has frequent $5K-$20K events, or used to. Cheating might not be as tempting in Colorado, where I recall almost nonexistent prizelists. But who knows what makes folks cheat anyway. The Colo riders were as crazed as any.)
So this puts the chance for the spotlight and glory FURTHER DOWN IN THE CATS and in fields.
Try something new! Ride a grocery bike in a crit. Your touring bike.
Ride a Typhoon in a mt-bike race. Go to your local race and give out $10 primes, if you’re a spectator or for events you’re not in as a racer. Put a little money on the line at your local training race. Change things up.
Ride a new route. During these early long summer days when you’re perhaps stoked by all the daylight, go for an EPIC RIDE and try to ride farther than you ever have before. Start out before dawn.
Tell your buds the next day that you rode 200 miles.
They’ll forget about Pantini!
Who cares about the hotshots and freaks anymore…who the heck knows WHAT they’re on… In our training race-ride yesterday I saw a hotshot give another guy a little something he put in his pocket, who knows? Another hotshot gave someone something and said “It’ll kick in in a bit, it’s L-Butyrate,” or something like that; I have NO IDEA what THAT was about. Could be lemonade for all I know.
But what’s with all the chemistry? The bike catalogs have PAGES of fancy ‘supplements’—not to be confused with anything that boosts a rider more than water and a banana, of course. Anyway, there’s no time like the present for the underdogs to shine! Do some feats that there’s NO MISTAKING it that the rider is just a good ole biker.
Kick the butts of the hotshots by showing some STYLE for a change!
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