Daily Peloton is pleased to welcome pro rider David Richter to the contribution team. Riding last season with Subway Express and now joining Monex, David has happily offered to contribute a regular journal of rider life and leisure to the site.  Read the first journal entry as he humorously shares some off season thoughts and goings on; check back regularly for additional entries.

Winter Thinking
By David Richter

During this off-season I’ve been working on conspiracy theories.  I’m convinced that lotteries are fixed.  Have you ever met a lottery winner?  Why do lottery winners not quit their shitty jobs?  I’m working on a complete manifesto on this issue, but in the mean time don’t waste your dough on a lottery ticket.  Why is NASCAR so big, now?  It’s been around for decades, but all of a sudden it’s huge.  I’ll tell you why…it’s fixed!  It’s still real, but it’s professional wrestling real.  It’s Laguna Beach real.

Podium at the Bermuda Grand Prix Hill Climb

Now, there’s nothing wrong with this new form of real.  It’s entertainment.  That’s why I’m proposing that professional cycling in America get more “real.”  We can fix a few, or all of the races.  We can build our own stars.  There can be “good guys” and “bad guys.”  Good guys could turn bad, and vice versa.  We would become big celebrities and make celebrity money.  But there would be the occasional crash that you’d have to take.  Massive crashes would be required.

We need to get on this wagon, now.  We can’t let some lame sport like speed skating or volleyball beat us to the punch.  We already have Dave Towle.  This dude was born to announce this type of stuff.  I can’t believe the WWE hasn’t stolen him yet.  Dave would run the show.  He’d be the commissioner.  All team radios would be on the same frequency, Dave’s frequency and he’d call the shots. 

Dave Towle ("The Commish") at Sea Otter with Tina Pic

Conspiracy Theories or the "Honey do list"

 Beside conspiracy theories, I’ve been on the internet a lot.  I think that those two things go hand in hand. 
See, I have nobody to bug during the day…everyone’s at work, so I fire up the computer. 
The longer that I stay on the net, the dumber the shit I look at.  I find myself on Ebay, checking out baseball cards or on Itunes listening to music that sucks.  The internet sucks, so I recently decided to tackle the home project list that my wife gave me.  I put in a French gutter.  This required a lot of digging, lifting, moving, etc. 
So French gutter installing is great cross-training. 

Dave pulls on the leaders jersey at Bermuda Grand Prix.
Everything went great, so I decided to step it up to installing a new storm door.  Now if I could do this, I could practically build a house.  Well, my house is close to a hundred years old and it's not straight or square.  So this door install was not easy.  But I had just knocked out a French gutter, so how could I stop there?  I called Home Depot and hired a pro to do it, but the wife thinks that I installed it.  Now she practically wants me to build a house.  Home projects suck, so now I just hide on my bike all day.
DR