Exposed by a Strava KOM - great long form story

[Scotty T]

This is fascinating and worth the read. Apparently was even a pro downhiller. You have to read it to the end. It will take a while.

Exposed by a Strava KOM: The many lives of a fake pro cyclist - CyclingTips

Cyclist, scholar, CEO, soldier: who is Nick Clark?

cyclingtips.com

 

[Daniel Hale]

i dont uderstand why he went to such lengths, eg buying a place u23 medal off ebay..he had a successfu, business, surely people dont go there cos they think u were somebody...or do they? editing wikipedia all the time, only normal thing was the strava KoM doping

 

[caad9]

I was sent this the other day and read it - BTW it is a long read.

Extraordinary story and the ending is a truly WTF scenario.

Edit: Imagine investigating a little dodgy KOM and then finding this mountain you unearthed from it

 

[Rorschach]

I went through this last week, great read
Iain Treloar writes some great articles

 

[moorey]

This is fascinating and worth the read. Apparently was even a pro downhiller.

Shit, you got me!
Wait, phew.

 

[cammas]

Great read, read this Sunday morning but what he is involved in now is scary, he is definitely someone has some issues.

 

[steve jobs' pancreas]

 

[ozzybmx]

Interesting, was about to head for a ride... 30 mins later

He's like Cable Guy - Catch me if you can combined, got caught playing the Pro Cyclist, now he's instructing people to shoot, pretending he was in the Aussie SAS.

Fckn nut job... just as well we got rid of him from Oz to a country that he's well suited to.

 

[Rorschach]

Interesting, was about to head for a ride... 30 mins later

He's like Cable Guy - Catch me if you can combined, got caught playing the Pro Cyclist, now he's instructing people to shoot, pretending he was in the Aussie SAS.

Fckn nut job... just as well we got rid of him from Oz to a country that he well suited to.

If the Aussie SAS finds out he's faking being part of them, even with the 'Who Dares Wins' tatts he's going to get a shoeing

 

[ashes_mtb]

This is fascinating and worth the read. Apparently was even a pro downhiller. You have to read it to the end. It will take a while.

Exposed by a Strava KOM: The many lives of a fake pro cyclist - CyclingTips

Cyclist, scholar, CEO, soldier: who is Nick Clark?

cyclingtips.com

He was shit on a mtb. I remember passing him about 1/3 through my run when I won the 1996 DH Worlds in France.

 

[rextheute]

That was great - thanks for posting !
A true “Walter Mitty “

 

[FatMuz]

A great read...long but worth the read. It almost has to be sold to Netflix to make a TV series...it would be huge.

 

[mas2]

This reminded me of another bizarre story I heard on podcast about a pro cyclist who became a bank robber. Well worth the listen.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/choir-boy/id84389707?i=1000317976432

 

[pink poodle]

Was this guy a bike broker at any time?

 

[cokeonspecialtwodollars]

Was this guy a bike broker at any time?

Broken? Yes. Biken? Hmmm.

 

[madstace]

Wow that was an epic for sure. But hey, all's well that ends well....a mentally unstable man with an arsenal of weaponary....lets hope there's no follow up stories about this bloke....

 

[ForkinGreat]

If the Aussie SAS finds out he's faking being part of them, even with the 'Who Dares Wins' tatts he's going to get a shoeing

I guess we will see what the Australian SAS historical foundation, and The Royal Australian Regiment Association make of it.

 

[clockworked]

I liked the bit that said the SAS are a like the green berets...

I was a member of the defence cycling club. Really nice group of people and a great part of defence life, but there's no conceivable way they had enough influence to allow an enlisted member enough time off work to be a pro cyclist. Defence rugby, maybe, but not defence cycling!

 

[Asininedrivel]

Man, I was kinda rooting for the guy until I got to the extensive sexual harassment part. The headspace you'd need to be in to spin and remember such an extensive fabrication of bullshit and live it every minute is kinda impressive in a really messed up way. A psychologist would either have a field day or run screaming from him within the hour.

But why does every narcissistic manlet with a chip on his shoulder pretend to have been in the Army / Special Forces?

 

[ashes_mtb]

Man, I was kinda rooting for the guy until I got to the extensive sexual harassment part. The headspace you'd need to be in to spin and remember such an extensive fabrication of bullshit and live it every minute is kinda impressive in a really messed up way. A psychologist would either have a field day or run screaming from him within the hour.

But why does every narcissistic manlet with a chip on his shoulder pretend to have been in the Army / Special Forces?

In his case it just suited his objectives. He was selling stuff to military and he felt it helped his cause, same as his pro career helped bike shop business. I suspect the move to guns stems from that.
Scary what he’s gotten into given his mental state.

I’m really curious what happened to his wife.