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Pretty sure she's one of the few women who ever had a hi flyers mx card (possibly the only one)
She was a mid 90s mtb psycho..... Pretty much like that one crossover dude.... But a girl.
She was head and shoulders ahead of women of her Era I believe.....
Then she just disappears.
You can always count on vice to do good investigative journalism.
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that's crazy! I actually was a sponsored DH rider from 14-20. She was well known when I was racing.
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I think she got caught up in drug running.....remember her getting arrested somewhere pretty close to where I live in Upstate....I could be wrong ....
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Giving Vice credit for this is a stretch. It has been well-known and talked about for years that she got into a mess and did time.
She showed up in Windham NY for the UCI World Cup in 2015 and I believe she did practice on a borrowed bike
https://www.redbull.com/au-en/videos/missy-giove-windham-world-cup-qualifying-2015
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sandman768 wrote:
I think she got caught up in drug running.....remember her getting arrested somewhere pretty close to where I live in Upstate....I could be wrong ....
Yep, in Albany: https://www.bikemag.com/blog/missy-giove-mountain-biker-arrested-following-massive-pot-bust/
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I remember her mooning everyone from the chairlift at Snowshoe national years ago, she was funny.
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sandman768 wrote:
I think she got caught up in drug running.....remember her getting arrested somewhere pretty close to where I live in Upstate....I could be wrong ....
drugs you say?
Ohhh, you mean marijuana.
I don’t care for the stuff myself but “transporting” pot doesn’t exactly qualify you as a hardened drug lord in my book. lawbreaker, yes.
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What I took from all of that: How TF did she only get time-served (which I assume was less than a year) and house arrest for transportation and distribution of that magnitude of drugs?
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sandman768 wrote:
I think she got caught up in drug running.....remember her getting arrested somewhere pretty close to where I live in Upstate....I could be wrong ....
observeroffacts wrote:
drugs you say?
Ohhh, you mean marijuana.
I don’t care for the stuff myself but “transporting” pot doesn’t exactly qualify you as a hardened drug lord in my book. lawbreaker, yes.
400 lbs? 
wasn't that long hair dude Clifford (sp) involved?
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sandman768 wrote:
I think she got caught up in drug running.....remember her getting arrested somewhere pretty close to where I live in Upstate....I could be wrong ....
observeroffacts wrote:
drugs you say?
Ohhh, you mean marijuana.
I don’t care for the stuff myself but “transporting” pot doesn’t exactly qualify you as a hardened drug lord in my book. lawbreaker, yes.
400 pounds is a lot of hooch.
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sandman768 wrote:
I think she got caught up in drug running.....remember her getting arrested somewhere pretty close to where I live in Upstate....I could be wrong ....
observeroffacts wrote:
drugs you say?
Ohhh, you mean marijuana.
I don’t care for the stuff myself but “transporting” pot doesn’t exactly qualify you as a hardened drug lord in my book. lawbreaker, yes.
lol.
They had a million in cash and hid it in the closet! I can't believe the cops found it, the closet is such a good hiding place.
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Great rabbit-hole to fall through with Missy - loved the stories and videos. She seems like an awesome person to hang out with, man I bet she has some stories!
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Excaliburbmx wrote:
She is a badass. Shaun Palmer was cool too
I was covering mountain bike racing in that era, and they were easily two of the most colorful characters around.
Every year at the Mt. Snow NORBA National, there would be a nude criterium next to the campground where a lot of the local riders stayed. I remember Missy participating in that one year.
At a NORBA National in Big Bear, Shaun won the downhill event, and busted out a gold lamé suit that his mom had made for the podium. He also had a bad-ass Prevost bus with checkered flag and flame graphics.
MX and SX could use some characters like that.
Oh, and that was all pre-internet era.
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Excaliburbmx wrote:
She is a badass. Shaun Palmer was cool too
GuyB wrote:
I was covering mountain bike racing in that era, and they were easily two of the most colorful characters around.
Every year at the Mt. Snow NORBA National, there would be a nude criterium next to the campground where a lot of the local riders stayed. I remember Missy participating in that one year.
At a NORBA National in Big Bear, Shaun won the downhill event, and busted out a gold lamé suit that his mom had made for the podium. He also had a bad-ass Prevost bus with checkered flag and flame graphics.
MX and SX could use some characters like that.
Oh, and that was all pre-internet era.
Holy crap, you were around for the VT naked crits? I just got into downhill around that time and started doing those norba nationals.
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GuyB wrote:
I was covering mountain bike racing in that era, and they were easily two of the most colorful characters around.
Every year at the Mt. Snow NORBA National, there would be a nude criterium next to the campground where a lot of the local riders stayed. I remember Missy participating in that one year.
At a NORBA National in Big Bear, Shaun won the downhill event, and busted out a gold lamé suit that his mom had made for the podium. He also had a bad-ass Prevost bus with checkered flag and flame graphics.
MX and SX could use some characters like that.
Oh, and that was all pre-internet era.
MX/SX had JLaw, and now we have Ronnie Mac. 
Steve, do you suppose the so called growth of SX/MX hinders the emergence of characters like Palm/Missy? Even in Mtn Biking, things have simmered down. I guess Cedric Gracia is the last of the colorful personalities.
Anyway, I think Missy is a total badass. She was giving zero F's before it was thing.
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Excaliburbmx wrote:
She is a badass. Shaun Palmer was cool too
GuyB wrote:
I was covering mountain bike racing in that era, and they were easily two of the most colorful characters around.
Every year at the Mt. Snow NORBA National, there would be a nude criterium next to the campground where a lot of the local riders stayed. I remember Missy participating in that one year.
At a NORBA National in Big Bear, Shaun won the downhill event, and busted out a gold lamé suit that his mom had made for the podium. He also had a bad-ass Prevost bus with checkered flag and flame graphics.
MX and SX could use some characters like that.
Oh, and that was all pre-internet era.
but did she wear the pirannah???
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Not sure if it's really him but the guy she was arrested with posted in the comments:
Eric Canori
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I paid her 60k to drive the load and then she tricked me and subbed the job out to her massage therapist for 3k, even after I told her she couldn’t sub the job out. Missy did 3days in jail and then gave me and a few others up. That was her role in the operation. I made the mistake of hiring a Greenhorn
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sandman768 wrote:
I think she got caught up in drug running.....remember her getting arrested somewhere pretty close to where I live in Upstate....I could be wrong ....
observeroffacts wrote:
drugs you say?
Ohhh, you mean marijuana.
I don’t care for the stuff myself but “transporting” pot doesn’t exactly qualify you as a hardened drug lord in my book. lawbreaker, yes.
Ya, I agree, I was not sure how to word it...where I grew up smoking pot was part of our culture, not much different than having a beer....
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Excaliburbmx wrote:
She is a badass. Shaun Palmer was cool too
GuyB wrote:
I was covering mountain bike racing in that era, and they were easily two of the most colorful characters around.
Every year at the Mt. Snow NORBA National, there would be a nude criterium next to the campground where a lot of the local riders stayed. I remember Missy participating in that one year.
At a NORBA National in Big Bear, Shaun won the downhill event, and busted out a gold lamé suit that his mom had made for the podium. He also had a bad-ass Prevost bus with checkered flag and flame graphics.
MX and SX could use some characters like that.
Oh, and that was all pre-internet era.TJ 755 wrote:
but did she wear the pirannah???
Yes, she was wearing it as a necklace. Too many crashes and concussions ruined her career, I still remember Vail in 2001, that was brutal!
I liked the Cannondale era but her Foes DHS Mono from the Global Racing Team was such a rad bike!
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She was bad ass ! ?
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Missy the Missle ! So rad growing up watching her crush it against ACC. DH and MX needs more characters!
Who else raced NORBAs at Mt Snow ? Best DH track so nasty!
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seth505 wrote:
Holy crap, you were around for the VT naked crits? I just got into downhill around that time and started doing those norba nationals.
Yep. What's funny is that even super-fit elite athletes don't look all that great naked while riding bikes. 
The races were pretty comical, though.
