Recent content by Brooks Fahey Baldwin

I think we can all spend the next weeks talking about how utterly ridiculous Froome is. But there isnt much point to that. I have always wanted to know what sort of gear Sky have been using and just how they get such questionable gains. AICAR probably cant tell the whole story. The...

Oh it gets so much worse than just the sample size. But surely that has been explained ad nauseum?

Lemond didnt ride within the 50% era.

Yes I know that. But without any other evidence, its the best we can go on.

Knowing just what doping does to help you isnt really possible for us. Given that nobody has really looked at how testosterone works with EPO, with HGH etc. However if we just worked off the reported benefits of EPO, I could get on the program up to about the 50% threshold and probably...

Hitch, I get where you are coming from. It is a reasonable position given what we know about pro cycling. The cut and thrust of your argument about Evans is essentially speculation. As I have previously mentioned, that isnt a bad way of making your mind up about a rider when you have...

All I can say is "horses for courses". Roadies, even pros, are victims of marketing though. But fit is very important. My eyes bleed when I see some pros. Anyway, I'll leave that there. This is a Cadel thread.

Well the problem with using science in cycling (ie the Brailsford approach) is that it just doesnt give the qualitative data you need. Ronald McNair (of shuttle Challenger fame) said that science is like trying to learn how the game of chess is played by only ever watching one square at a...

It wasnt so much the sustained power that he missed there. It was more the 600W odd efforts for 40 seconds that made him loose time so quickly. I have always beleived Cadel is clean. But only just. There are a lot of factors that would lead one to believe he is on the sauce ie: -...

Sorry if I am making a point twice, as there are 20 odd pages of this thread I haven't read yet. However, what I have to add is: 1) Just over a decade ago I made a small pancake motor for a model car. It was about the size of a stroopwafel. Importantly such a motor has a huge amount of...

All depends upon which bone he broke. Many of the carpals only have a single blood supply, ie only one nutrient foramen. So if there is a decent fracture it can require surgery otherwise half of the bone will die off, leaving you with a dysfunctional wrist forever. Surgery and avascular...

I'm not suggesting it is a good thing. But I would have thought there would have always been one or two people per forum that would do that. Maybe cyclists actually do have more morality than body builders:rolleyes: As for the whole cardiac output etc. It doesnt say much at all. All you...

Stroke volume is the amount of blood the heart pushed out with one beat. Cardiac output determines how much blood can make it around to your working muscles, therefore its a big factor in how hard you can push. The other major ones being the amount of oxygen you can cram in to each litre...

I woudlnt be surprised to see something utterly stupid like that. Nobody really knows whats going on with him though. All we can say at the moment is "not natural", then sit around and wait to see. Corticosteroids simply cannot tell the whole story with him. And salbutamol is really...

Go the the GP and pretend you have a nasty allergy I suppose. I'm always amazed that "the clinic" has always ended up discussing doping as a negative thing. I would have thought it would degenerate in to "how to dope". Keep in mind prednisolone is very easy to test for. So you will need...