Whack Jobs

If you've been around east coast bike racing at all over the past 10 years, chances are good that you've been exposed to Myerson. He's an obnoxious, opinionated, atheist vegan, and one of those personalities that helps to keep things intersting. He turned in a good result at Providence last weekend, where his fans were out in force.


This shot didn't make the Cyclingews.com Coverage

Also in the news recently, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette has an update on Danny Chew's quest to reach 1,000,000 miles before he kicks the bucket. Danny is, hands down, the biggest whack job that I've ever met through cycling and, with the possible exception of a derlict nicknamed "larks" that lives in Indiana PA, the biggest whack job I've ever known.


The Biggest Whack-Job on Two Wheels

Not the least of his idiosyncrasies, Danny was (and perhaps stil is) a virgin when I met him back in 1989 at the ACA's old Wednesday night races in the parking lot of the Pittsburgh zoo. I was intoduced to him by Gerry Plug, who made sure to tell him that I had a younger sister. Danny spent the next 3 years harassing me, trying to get me to set him up on a date with my sister, despite the fact that he had never even seen her.

Every time Danny saw me, the first thing he'd ask me is what my sister was like and if he could meet her…as soon as I pulled in to the parking lot at a race, I'd hear it as he'd shout from 300 yards away "HEY BURT, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO LET ME HAVE A DATE WITH YOUR SISTER...!!!" Then it'd start...he'd ride over and harass me for at least 10 minutes while I got dressed...every once in a while he'd stop to brag about some 150 mile ride that he did to Cleveland or State College or somewhere else, usually without eating or drinking, then he'd tell me what a sissy I was for only training 300 miles a week. When he was done with me, he’d do the same thing to any number of other guys that he knew…it was compulsive…he wasn’t trying to be annoying, it was just Danny...one of those personalities that you never forget.

Of course, he was also a tougher-than-nails bastard…he could literally ride his bike at 27 miles per hour all fucking day. Danny wasn't a sprinter...there there were plenty of guys who could ride a crit better than him, but back in the late 80s/early 90s in Pittsburgh, no one except Matt Eaton could touch the guy on the road. He's been a top 10 finisher at the USPRO championships in Philly, and he won the RAAM twice. True to form, on one of his RAAM attempts, he was penalized a bunch of time for following around Seana Hogan and continually asking her for a date until she finally threated to quit the race if the officials didn't keep him away from her. Seana was tough enough to win an ultra race a month after getting out of a wheelchair, but even she didn't have the endurance for Danny.

All right, enough about that.

CAS has exonerated Inigo Landaluze for for a testosterone "positive" based on the fact that the guys at the Châtenay-Malabry lab (i.e., the same jokers who tested Floyd's sample) didn't follow protocol...in this case the same analyst tested both the "A" Sample and the "B" sample. What's troubling about the descision is that all the techical arguments made in the case were summarily rejected...apparently there's no challenging whether the test is actually valid or any of the other techical isses...if WADA uses the test, it must be good!

As always, Trust but Verify has the best coverage, if you want to delve into it.

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