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British Cycling LogoTop amateur rider suspended after joining race to help clubmates
A top amateur cyclist who joined in a race he hadn’t entered and tried to prevent riders joining a break containing a pair of his clubmates has been banned for four months and fined £100.
Michael Ashurst of the VCUK Champion System Racing Team – which on its website says he is also known as ‘Lance’ – joined the Frank Morgan Memorial Race in Knowsley, Merseyside on 27March despite not being on the start list.
In a Disciplinary Complaint filed on its website, British Cycling said that although he had not entered the race,
Mr Ashurst became involved in the event and undertook some racing moves; chasing down riders and riding to prevent other riders bridging the gap between the breakaway group which contained two of his club mates.
Mr Ashurst joined the event after the first six laps and he continued his disruption for approximately eight laps. Mr Ashurst was asked by riders in the peloton to leave the race, however Mr Ashurst refused.
His ban runs from 28 March to 27 June 2016, according to the Disciplinary Notice, which is dated 19 April 2016.
According to the British Cycling website, the Wigan-based rider was still racing after that date, however.
Ranked 51st among the country’s Category 1 riders, he won a Regional C+ race on 21 April, and was second in another on 4 May.
Two days prior to the Disciplinary Notice being issued, he had also won the National B event, the Danum Trophy Road Race.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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"Arse Hat" seems appropriate as suggested in the blog surlajante.com/
Cockthistle? Twatwaffle? Jeremy Hunt?
Wazzock
Twunt
On the club website, sponsors are: Champion System Clothing, Velochampion.co.uk, BaseBikes.cc, Club Roost, Yoursportsfuel.com, Sorrymate.com, LAKE shoes, Limar helmets, Kenda Tyres, KMC Chains, Jagwire cables.
So I count eleven ways the club can be encouraged to care.
A paltry four month ban that isn't enforced. Cycling really is getting its act together!
Amateurs on EPO in the 90's ? Wasn't it a bit expensive back then ?
I hope the local dope testers also take an interest in this dickhead and his mates. If he and they are without ethics on one aspect, what's the chances they interpret the rules as they wish in other ways too.
In the late 90s I used to race against a club that did very well, but were a complete bunch of bastards, until it was announced that there would be EPO testing at local level (after the Festina affair). The next season they were all distinctly mediocre. What a surprise.
I'm surprised that the other competitors only asked him to stop racing and didn't dump him in a hedge or ditch.
Did his team members gain any points out of his actions?
More to the point, it would seem his club aren't that bothered either.
My thoughts exactly.
Rather than post rude words I thought I might contribute to the discussion. I know that seems like bad form but maybe some of you should try it. You might like it?
If he has raced while banned then that in itself is a further offence and he will be getting another disciplinary hearing and will be subjected to a much longer ban?
Fuck-weasel?
Fud.
Roadie
His teammates have already found the perfect words for what he is:
lance
/lɑːns/
noun
1. a long weapon with a wooden shaft and a pointed steel head
2. a metal pipe supplying a jet of oxygen to a furnace
3. a person who is a dickhead in a bicycle race.
Cuntpuffin.
Cockwomble
Bell-end is the word you're looking for.
Aaah come on. It's a mistake anybody could make.
We really need a word as good as douche to sum up this sort of guy.
We were the masters of language once, never to be outdone. Sign of of the times I tell you.
Tosspiece.
Cock womble
Saying it like a true master of the language...
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFinjHm781c
Nah, reminds me too much of American teen dramas... "Hey man, don't be such a douche". I think I'll stick to wankstain.