Strava Cheat - The many lives of Nick Clark - the Kip Litton of cycling - exposed after he cheated on Strava

This isn't the ultrarunner guy, right?

Thanks for sharing, I glanced at the story and realized I'm going to need to sit down for an extended period of time to read the whole thing. It looks like it will be an interesting story.

Only if one of Nick Clark's many identities is Rob Young and 20 years younger

WOW that was an insane story.

What is most amazing about his cons is he was somehow simultaneously employed at executive level for 2 or 3 companies

The best scammer was that guy who ran for Princeton under an assumed name when he was in his late 20’s or early thirties

Great character study of a pathological liar.

BUT this guy actually (faked) sponsored people out of his own pocket.

Who got hurt?

Offended wealthy DC area women….

oh my!

Not running, but a fascinating read on when a cyclist was found out cheating on Strava it opened a whole new can of worms

cyclingtips.com

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

Iain Treloar

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

Link:cyclingtips.com/2022/04/exposed-by-a-s...

That was a great story, thank you! Wish the editor could have spent a couple more hours shaping up the charter about his business life.

Serms so sad that it sounds like he could have built a great community, hadn't it been for the lies. The part about being invited to race the Paris - Roubaix is just hillarious, there isn't one picture in there where he doesn't have a beer gut. How could people believe him when he presumably was sweating and panting, struggling to follow the local crushers?

Wow ...... what a story. Took a long time to read, but well worth it. That man has some serious mental problems. Cudos to the author who must have invested a great deal of time.

Thanks. That was a great read about a sad excuse for a human being.

Well I was on the team. And I never got anything for free. In fact, I gave the shop a lot of business unfortunately. But he wasn’t really “coaching” much, he was just using the women as props. I guess you had to be there - he’s a total whack job.

Familiar with story. The women weren’t wealthy. Some just college students or earning average salaries for the area. Nick on the other hand earned millions when he got a CEO job with apparently fake credentials. Classic story of an immigrant living the American dream I guess? He wanted people to think he was baller enough to negotiate some big sponsorships - it’s street cred in the cycling world. And the women became his first line of defense for a persona that was all BS.

You have no idea. There is so much more to the story! Alexium. Lot’s of sad and angry shareholders. “Selling” the shop to the mechanic for $1.00. His kids. The companies he hired to hide the truth. Endless legal threats. His stupid line of oils and creams. His artillery, JAG, & SF stories. He’s almost 50, this guy is past reform.

Yep! This is going to start another sh$t storm at Alexium.

No kidding. At the companies I've worked at, the executives barely have time for lives outside the company. How this guy managed to do that for more than one -- and keep each secret from the other(s) -- is completely beyond me. Then there was all the other stuff he was doing while working at those companies. Even if a lot of it was BS, it still took up time and energy.

I've read earlier articles about this sociopathic sleazebag, and it's mind-boggling how his BS was able to snow anyone with an iota of knowledge about cycling, especially that absurd tale about him being "invited" to ride Paris-Roubaix at age 42 by a non-existent Italian team. If you look at the photos of Clark in his fake team kit -which he designed and ordered hikself- at that time, he was grossly overweight by pro cyclist standards.

Just finished the article, a long but interesting read. The guy is clearly a sociopath and narcissist.

The KOM strava segments led to his downfall but there's so much more to the story than the bogus segments.

Didn't anyone suspect he was full of crap after going on group rides with him? I know he did a lot of "coaching" on his rides, but I figured on some of those rides people would notice he wasn't all that or that he struggled more than he should. Kind of like if someone claims they were a sub 4 minute miler and then join a group for a run. Experienced runners can usually see glimpses of talent or lack thereof, even if they are far removed from their prime. Did anyone notice he wasn't a great talent on the bike?