DOPER! Alert! and How to Rid Carbon Wheels of Non-Sponsor Names

All right, Who's surprised? not me. but come on Tyler. Didn't you learn anything in your years of not racing? or do you not care? It appears it was all surrounding his battle with depression.

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Cycling News Flash, April 17, 2009Edited by Laura Weislo
Hamilton tests positive, retires
By Kirsten Robbins with additional reporting by Shane Stokes

Tyler Hamilton's career in cycling has ended following a positive doping control, Cyclingnews learned Friday. He tested positive for the banned steroid Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) after an out-of-competition control in early February. Hamilton admitted to knowingly taking the substance which was an ingredient in a vitamin supplement he took in an attempt to alleviate depression. He has decided to retire. Tyler Hamilton has suffered from depression for years.

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I have some carbon wheels with non-team sponsor brand names on them. I have been searching for some ways to cover up the brand name. I thought about using a paint-pen like the ones they sell at craft stores and hobby stores. I tested it out, it's too 'gummy' and I think would slow down the aerodynamic features of the carbon wheels. I thought about buying some Wheeltags, but they don't have anything that matches my bike and I can't afford the custom order to design my own. I did even stop by a few local sign shops and such to see if they could make something close to the wheeltags.

Many said no, but I did find a few shops willing to give it a try. Issue is cost, they would charge me the same or more than the Wheeltags. Dumb to pay out that money for the cover-up. A trip to a few Auto-Parts stores and I scored a pretty large roll of Carbon Tape. This stuff is pretty sweet. After two weeks of trying to figure out how to put it on, lay it out and place it on my Carbon wheels, here is the before and after shots. Note from a short distance, you can't even tell I have the fake 'carbon' stickers over the Bontrager letters. I decided to keep some of the red and white on the wheels, because that part matches my bike. I may experiment with some of the extra material I have and try to dull out the finish on the sticker material to get it to more closely match the dull carbon finish of the actual wheels.

Sunshine, Bike Cleaning and Carbon Wheels, Shopping, Pumpkins

One of the Cap City Cross races was today, I just didn't have it in me for another two days of weekend racing and just needed a break. I did miss out on some great Halloween Costume's I saw on Facebook tonight. Bummer. I also got a crunk call from Moro late afternoon, which was quite entertaining. Since I didn't go today, I thought I might spend some time with my two wheeled kids. My road bike and my cross bike. My road bike and its parts were very dirty and my cross bike had enough sand on it to build a sand box in my backyard, well not really, but it was dirty. Yes I still, need to cut the head off my carbon steerer, it's not in the way and I'll get to it, when I can.
After, I got a few really nice pics of them for history sake. The weather here today was amazing and about 70 and purrfect. A nice day to relax, detail the bikes, in shorts and a t-shirt. Jen worked on organizing in the house and wouldn't come out to hang.
I did get out on the road bike for about an hour to clear the lungs out a bit and feel the wind on my legs. I thought it might be good before I go race in Cincy tomorrow at the Gun Club.



Jen and I did get out on a date tonight - a bit of dinner, some pants shopping and some silly-fun in the toy section. I came around the corner and she had the Hulk Gloves on. Pretty funny. Then a isle later, we saw the scooter that looks almost like her big gas flavored one. It was a good laugh.

Our Pumpkins from Tuesday night with Layne, Kate, Sally and Andy. We all had a blast. Layne did the face low left, Jen did the OBAMA, Kate did the cool Obama logo and I did the Scarecrow McCain.