Over the decades, there have been many extravagant and wild personalities within cycling. Most have been harmless, but some have resorted to acts, or an entire life, of crime.
While we would never advocate, nor celebrate, criminal behaviour, in an era when true crime podcasts and TV series are exploding in popularity, we went in search of cycling’s lawbreakers.
DAVID CLINGER
ARMSTRONG’S TEAM-MATE AND TATTOOED OFFENDER
It’s not so much the crime that interests us in this case, but the man. American David Clinger was raised a Mormon, as he explained in an in-depth interview with VeloNews in 2009, and thus strictly avoided caffeine, alcohol and drugs. During an overseas racing trip in 1994 aged 17, however, he started using marijuana.
He was a promising pro, winning national titles on the track and road. He raced for Festina, was Lance Armstrong’s US
