Recent content by Amatour

The mtb results website Roots and Rain is looking for results of UCI World Cup DH racing from the initial year 1993 through 1997 to have a complete listing of past World Cup results. There were I usually about 6 to 8 races a season. Being a subscriber of Velo News in the late 90's, I...

I've noticed mountain bike rear ends are getting wider, some companies are now making trail bikes with 157mm rear hub standards. This increases wheel and frame strength and stiffness, is there any reason to consider making road bike frames wider? Maybe for the sprinters? Not to the...

Clearly, yes. Hopefully the oversized sunglasses war won't get to ridiculous but I don't think it will go away. I like them because they give you great peripheral vision and I also think they help keep you cool on a hot day. I've lost several Oakleys and a $200 set of Nike's that were my...

Mental win or psychological exhaustion? You can only try to dominate so much, and using the same tactics teams used in the doping era isn't going to work anymore. Especially when you are racing against a 21 year old who simply has to sit on your wheels. Unless you have a truly dominant...

Agreed, their team was so strong that they could have tried all l kinds of different options to create bigger gaps, but they were set on the Postal strategy of simply controlling the race with a big team and gaining time on the final climbs or TT.

An expert in sports psychology would likely predict Roglic's subpar effort if they were familiar with cycling and following the race closely. An athlete only has so much flame before it wanes and when it does it happens progressively and has drastic effects on recovery. Meanwhile Podocar on...

I took your whole post as a sarcastic swipe of the peleton, sorry if it wasn't. In my opinion the post doping era started in the post-Froome era. Bernal and Podocar aren't taking the asthma drugs as far as I'm aware. If Froome comes back or we get another asthmatic winner then we will be...

Agreed, that was strange and made no sense. I thought they might have done it to have a rider behind to be able to warn off any attack coming up but that wouldn't make too much difference.

1. Unless you have evidence of a specific tactic or drug they might be using or taking you shouldn't be making accusations. At least the people accusing Lance knew he was on epo and there was some evidence, they didn't just make up conspiracies out of thin air to discount the performance of a...

The effects of over exertion at the end of an extreme stage, near the end of a three week tour where a rider rides over aggressively consistently, all after having a recent injury, cannot be discounted. I was under the impression that Sepp rode away by himself, I wasn't aware that the team or...

I originally was going to blame Sepp Kuss for Roglic not winning the Tour but that would be discounting Podocar's absolutely amazing performance in the time trial. But I still think that Sepp Kuss did weaken his team leader at a crucial point by unnecessarily attacking him at the end of one of...