Tomorrow is the start of a whole new venture in cycling here in the US.  It is the debut of the World Cycling League.  The World Cycling League is track racing.  The format is co-ed teams, representing different regional, racing head to head on indoor velodromes.  The first race is tomorrow night at the Velo Center in Carson CA.

I first heard about this from Dave Chauner at the Pro Challenge last year.  I’ve known Dave for a long time.  He was the man behind the original Philadelphia Professional Road Championships. He was on two Olympic teams, wrote a book and now is the behind the WCL.  Busy guy.

Dave contacted me asking if I would want to come to the premier event of WCL.  I was invited as media.  I don’t really consider myself media, but maybe I should. I kind of just do what I do, not really reporting on anything, just writing down my observations of things I’m interested in. It doesn’t really matter how I’m labeled I guess.

Anyway, there are three sessions.  Tomorrow night, Saturday afternoon and then Saturday evening.  If you live anywhere near LA,  why not go and check it out.  I’m sure it is going to be crazy exciting.

I hope to meet up with Seth Davidson there on Saturday night.  He wrote a post about the event too a couple days ago.  For more information, to buy tickets, or just check out the WCL, click here. The events are also going to be streamed live at WorldCyclingLeague.com.

Tucker not knowing what to do with such a big amount of water.

I saw an article over at Velonews about a guy in LA, Nicholas Brandt-Sorensen, that was charged with selling EPO through the mail.  Nick pleaded to selling ONE vial of EPO to someone in Colorado.  He was also selling Actovegin, a derivative of calf’s blood on his website.

Okay, obviously, the dude is a dick. He served a 2 year ban for testing positive at Master’s Nationals a few years ago.  But that obviously didn’t slow him down.  He decided to profit from it by becoming a drug dealer.

As usual, Seth at Cycling in the South Bay beat me to the punch yesterday.  Click here to see Seth’s always amusing take on it.  

Turns out that Nick owns a clothing company (No reason to click that link since you shouldn’t buy anything from a guy pushing drugs to athletes. I just looked, too many of you are clicking the link, don’t do it.) for custom clothing in LA.  I remember doing the Nosco ride a couple years ago and a kid that was riding in his clothing was hauling ass up the climbs.

The funny thing is the guy goes by the name Thorfinn Sassquatch on Strava.  No shit, he does. How hilarious is that.   I went to his Strava profile and it seems he cherry-picks Strava KOM’s all over LA.  Cycling and running.  Under his name is this –

www.instagram.com/thorfinnsassquatch Olympic ITP & WADA Bio Passport Program >36 months. Top most randomly no-notice bio sampled cyclist in USA 2013-14 with 24/7 whereabouts filing for >36 months. (Required UCIWT or Olympic brand events)

I have no idea what that means and if it is a promotional deal, bragging, or just fuckin’ stupid, since he already sat out 2 years for cheating a bunch of Master’s in Bend.

What a douche.  He does have 1600 followers on Strava.  If any of you are following him, maybe just unfollow him now.  He doesn’t deserve anyone’s attention in my opinion.  Nothing like doping and selling doping products, while setting Strava KOM’s.

I wonder if the deal he made is like Joe Papp and that all his customers are sweating now, worried about the Fed’s knocking on their door for buying doping products through the mail?  I surely hope so.  And I hope the guy has to spend a timeout in jail.  Maybe not a year, but enough to scare some sense into him.

Okay, enough about this guy.  I’m going to try to erase  it out of my memory.  It isn’t worth another though.

I got this photo from Midnight Ridazz Rider Profile. The guy kind of looks like Ron Howard. I guess this jersey photo was before he was suspended for doping.  The other photo could be his mug shot?

Tucker looking all cute. I don’t even like posting a picture of Tucker even close to the creep above. They are polar opposites.