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Cartilage is non-replaceable, if what he says is true and he's "bone on bone" in one of his knees than we'll never see him again . :( Even minor irritation down there with full thickness cartilage is very hard to deal with; without some off the bike strengthening & stretching which is counter...

It would be nice to see a Grand tour contender win the worlds road race for a change, the TT seems to be the favorite for them if they even give it a shot. It seems like it might be a bb issue (as in "the secret race".) :) It could be that the "bbs" have become risky enough that they only use...

Ferrari initially said 6.97 w/kg for his version of level 4, which is an all out 30 min TT. That would give an FTP of 6.7 w/kg, too high in my opinion. It seems more likely to be about what Wiggins had for his win a couple years back, maybe a little bit better. I don't really think Contador...

I actually think it's bad business practice to take sides like this on athletes, you dont see that much in other sports. This feud between Lance/Lemond is one of the most prolific I think I'm trying to think of anything else that can compare and I cant, can anyone think of a sports marketing...

Yeah not much padding for a crash either..... All it takes is one little fall and no extra muscle or fat to help absorb that energy.

As above, atmospherics is always changing, that being said bicycle performance is mostly down to aero and stiffness. Some of those older alloy frames like what Pantani used might have had holes drilled in them to save on weight, or he could cut his seatpost in half and do other things, they...

Today I dusted off my old Graham Watson, Bettini book of cycling 2003 and read the foreward by Watson about how "cycling has had a real victory, but we must not become complainant as the fight against doping scandals is never ending." Not word for word but I though it was hilarious, reminds...

I dont think livestrong is connected to lance anymore....I could be wrong I guess but I think they totally dropped him? Anyways its absolutely NO SECRET that guys within USAC and UCI like Lance and were very sad to ban him, they loved his contributions and wanted to keep that coming as it was...

I think the Horner power estimates are off, he is not the strongest Grand Tour climber in the world in my opinion.

I think at the end of the day we have to say that those who like Lance & those who hate him need to try and get along because this has been dragging on for 5+ years now. I feel like I kind of started it all that time ago, and now its getting to be an old fight back & forth, rather the same old...

Never seen anything close to 10% gain with caffeine..... I've seen a marked decrease in performance with it, during a criterium once. I suppose if you drank a gallon of water with it or were doing perhaps a 10 minute effort and not any longer than 20 mins...because your hydration is compromised...

Imagine having Indurain's power... Just hop in a criterium and forget about sprinting...just cruise at a steady 525 watts and wait for the guy 2nd wheel to loose touch he he he. ;)

So Andrew, you do not believe that Contador, Pantani, Lance, Riis are outliers? I guess Chris Boardman wasn't an outlier when he set the world record, or Obree... Dont tell me you dont think Eddy wasn't an outlier!! But really I think out of the hundreds of thousands of racing cyclists that...

Yeah, 420 did seem a bit high for FTP, but all the power spikes of a race like that have to be a bit costly! He drafted the whole way up, I know when I'm racing I sure the hell am not trying to go for the highest average watts. He very likely could have gone even higher... That and the 4.5 hours...

424 average is HUGE for a 64 kg guy, for a road race of 15 mins. I guess I was wrong about him. For a TT its still very high but those SRM files only account for the average, they dont account for all the little spikes of a road race up a climb. His normalized power was probably even more...