Friday, May 08, 2026

1. You lose a KOM, you go out within 48 hours and take it back.

2. After a hard ride you park your bike without taking the water bottles out.

3. You don’t own a pet

4. Your bike and gear is still dirty after Barry Roubiax

5. Your doing workouts using wattage numbers from the Obama era

6. You can’t laugh at yourself

7. Cheating your weight on Zwift

8. Owning a power meter, but rarely testing

9. Putting ketchup on a hotdog

10. Sharing your training plan and or info

11. Promoting a product without ever getting compensation

12. Screen capturing pictures

13. Tipping less than the average amount

14. Never giving kudos or likes to your followers

15. If you pee on the toilet paper at wrest areas...ya you sick fuck TMS

16. If you don't remember who won ICEMAN

17.Never had sex in a public place

18. if you never done a full season of week day worlds

19. Your worried you might get addicted to something

20. You actually like this shit hole blog..

You’re basically dead inside

Thursday, May 07, 2026

Anti-doping policy will apply to race events like Sunday Race Club and MyWhoosh Championship

Our goal is to protect clean riders

– virtual cycling platform MyWhoosh introduces randomly selected anti-doping programme

Virtual cycling platform MyWhoosh is to introduce an anti-doping and integrity testing initiative for racers, it was announced on Thursday. Around 700 riders will form part of the initial testing pool, which is believed to be the first anti-doping programme for e-racing.

The free-to-use, Abu Dhabi-based platform is the home of the UCI Esports World Championships, and offers significant cash prizes for winners in its Sunday Race Club competition. As of 17 May, participants will face random drug tests after they compete.

MyWhoosh will work with a provider called International Doping Tests & Management (IDTM), and selected riders will be notified remotely and must remain at their declared location for up to three hours post-event to provide urine,

blood, or dried blood spot samples to appointed testing personnel.

"The introduction of anti-doping and integrity testing is about protecting fair competition and rider trust," Matt Smithson, Director of Esports & Game Operations at MyWhoosh, said. "As our Sunday Race Club grows, the standards around fairness must match the seriousness of the event. Our goal is to protect clean riders and ensure that our global community can trust in the integrity of every podium finish."

For Sunday Race Club, there is a monthly purse of $300,000 (£220,000), divided out between individual winners (from 1st to 10th) and team winners through six categories – with category one being elite riders, down to category six.

Those tested will be selected based on random choice, podium finishes, performance data, or intelligence-led targeting, and notification could occur shortly before, during, or after an event.

To maintain transparency, riders will be required to provide an accurate declared location during registration to facilitate potential testing appointments. Failure to comply with testing instructions, including refusal, evasion, or tampering, could result in severe sanctions such as disqualification, prize money claw-backs, and suspension from the platform.

The anti-doping initiative will work alongside existing integrity systems, which monitor hardware, software and performance data verification.

"If someone’s cheating, they’re probably mechanically cheating," Smithson told The Guardian. "But we’ve got a lot of verification to try to stop that now. Riders have to use a specific trainer to race, with two ways of showing their power. We also get our athletes to do what we call a power passport test. That includes a film test, so we know it’s that person. We can see their power, we can see their heart rate. We can see all of those things. And that gives us a physiological print of who they are.

"Our drug testing, which is the first of its kind, is another way to help everybody feel that they are racing on a level playing field."

'I don't feel welcome in cycling' – Jan-Willem van Schip speaks out following latest disqualification

Dutch rider punished twice in eight months over his unusual bike set-up and position

In a video posted to Instagram, Dutch cyclist Jan-Willem van Schip has issued an outburst against the UCI and its commissaires at the Tour of Hellas after he was booted from the race for an illegal position on the bike.

Speaking in Dutch, he opened with the phrase: "Not normal, I've been disqualified again," before arguing his case and complaining that he feels unwelcome in road cycling.

\It's not Van Schip's first run-in with the authorities. The Dutchman has faced the wrath of commissaires and the UCI on multiple occasions, including when was removed from the Baloise Belgium Tour in 2021 for using unusual handlebars made by Dutch brand Speeco, and in 2023 when he was disqualified from Heistse Pijl after using a radical new handlebar set-up from Toot.

More recently, he was removed from the Tour of Holland for an apparently unapproved forward-leaning seatpost.

The exact reason for his latest disqualification appears to be the unauthorized way in which he holds his handlebars, supposedly breaking the forearms-on-handlebars rule.

week, allow Van Schip to adopt an aerodynamic position, but he appears to fallen foul of the UCI's outlawing of the forearms as 'a point of support', even if his hands are still in contact with the bars.

Van Schip argues that "everyone does that and I actually always hold my shifter fully," before adding, "how do you measure this anyway?"

"Its very painful. It's really not fun. The bike is completely legal, the seatpost is fine, but they still found a way to screw us over. It hurts a lot," he said, before later adding: "I don't really feel welcome in cycling."

He also invited the UCI to "have a good talk about it" so he can ask: "How do these rules work, what is actually allowed and what isn't?"

The Dutchman has already pondered a move to gravel, where the rules are more relaxed. Maybe that will now be considered more seriously.

Aptly summing up his mood, the video ended with the phrase