Junk Miles very much made out VC was like Jake…
My apologies!
As I understood it - he literally rode a few seconds on the trail, saw the sign prohibiting it, got off and walked from there. A waste of everyone’s time prosecuting this - but that’s what our government is all about - wasting time and money.
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The guy is an absolute knob imho.
During Climb 2 Kaiser (which is not a race) this year his “media car” almost got into a head on collision while filming for him, putting the entire group in danger.
Some jail time would be proper karma for this individual
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Lance is the goat, EPO doesn’t dull the pain.
This is such an annoying criticism, honestly people will complain if you give them a solid gold rolex these days. You bet your ass this guy posting spent a good hour going through the video to look at footage of himself… You want the content, VC makes the content, don’t complain about risks I’m sure it wasn’t as dangerous as you suggested in your post.
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Weird….I didn’t say anything about his physical capabilities.
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I dunno, last I checked he and I have the same number of TdF victories
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… but it’s nice to be reminded about the whole cheating thing.
I sometimes forget.
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Were you there? Seems a fair comment (you can call it criticism if you want) from someone who was presumably there and participated. The person didn’t totally slag on VC, but certainly pointed out that his actions and methods to get content perhaps impacted the race of others. Seem like that would be “annoying” to me.
I guess I say this as I have seen VC take some mild, yet annoying risks in a race that I was in with him. The dude was riding 1 handed with a selfie stick outstretched in the very early parts of Unbound 200 when the road was packed side to side with hundreds of racers with nervous energy and fresh legs. I had already seen at least 10 crashes. Luckily for all, nothing happened. But I don’t feel like him creating content gives him any sort of pass for impacting the race of others.
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Nor did I say anything about him cheating. 
I respect your opinion, I guess as a non resident of california where racing is in fact almost fully dead it’s difficult to take someone complaining about someone else doing extra, when in fact that is what the sport needs to survive.
The bad ending is not when there are so many influencers in your local gravel race that it’s annoying or dangerous. The end is much more sad when nobody shows up and the race is canceled.
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VC or any other content creator, no matter how wide their reach has any right to create dangerous conditions on course just so they can make a cool video.
It is perfectly possible to make good content without putting their fellow racers in danger and doing so just shows that they care more about content then the well being of those they are racing against.
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I’m sorry, but that is a silly binary choice that simply doesn’t exist.
“We need to accept the dangerous behavior of ‘influencers’ because without them, the sport is dead”
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I can’t believe how much free publicity this guy gets on this forum. He seems to get more than all the other influencers combined.
No, you’re wrong. So many influencers in my local gravel that it’s annoying and dangerous is definitely the bad ending.
Ben Delaney got chastised on film for doing the same thing at either a group ride or event.
No no we should be bowing down and thanking them for gracing our races with their presence. How else would we get any participation unless they show up to film the whole thing? Who cares if it causes a few riders to crash? It’s not like they were bringing any publicity to the race.
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Why don’t you show us how it’s done then. Better be perfect, no mistakes allowed.
The only person who did mention cheating is the person who things he’s the 
.
How strange!
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