Recent content by dancing on pedals

its dangerous too just put race speed down to dopage - the route, the road surface, the weather and other factors all effect race times - for example for many years the 1964 time of paris roubaix stood head and shoulders above the others but Peter Post 's time was more down to an old parour (in...

er no. as i have tried to point out in my previous posts the indurain team got weaker as time went on - the team went from very strong in 1990 to capablele of holding on to the penultimate mountain on a difficult stage in 1995 and they always lost time in a ttt despite el rey driving them -...

Pantani was absolutely crushed by the decision to eject him from the Giro. You could argue that it killed him. To bring the thread back on topic, the pirate like el rey both became victims of complacent management due to sucess and both fell to more clever people. Indurain was a very tempered...

yeah sorry i was thinking about a couple of interviews he had done earlier with the French Press/cycling magazines. In "A tempered passion" Indurains biography by Javier Sanchez he does allude to the "half shut doorways in hotels where the sick cyclists are treated by their doctors" - (not a...

no doubt - but Davy also testified against Castorama, Telekom and La Francaise des Jeux teams. which is odd because in 1992 - 1994 he rode for Castorama, 1995 - 1996 for Banesto , and in 1997 for FdJ. so how could he state that a doping programme exsisted before he joined a team or indeed on...

what makes me laf is that posters here pretend to know the facts - the fact is that indurain's team got weaker over the years - if there was a dopage connection it was well hidden, both in results and in racing style. Race Radio claims to know that Indurain and his team doped - i doubt it -...

In fact, Indurain's teams got weaker as time went on the 1991 team (built for Delgado not Indurain) was probably the strongest he ever had - Delgado, Alonso,Arnaud, Bernard, Indurain,Lukin, Philipot, Rodriguez Magrto, Rondon, They won the team classification that year with 4 riders in the...

If you are looking for a starting point of trains and team riding why not use Bottechia's 1924 victory with the Buysse brothers and the Automoto team as the template? Or even more extreme the 1928 tour when 15 of the 22 stages were team time trials? My recolllection is that the Banesto team was...

well in English cycling teams I would think it a more than fair comparison - the team is 8th in the world rankings.. thanks

history does show that Armstrong can get away with even televised bullying and still get off the hook. Look at the Simeoni incident, and once his initial macho bullying had died down and he had to explain himself to the Italian authorities the story changed to "the wierd thing was i was riding...

looking back it does seem odd that so many former Armstrong team mates got hit with doping bans, after they left the team ...................... thanks

not read all the thread but i voted 8 - mainly on the grandeur of the event and also on the the performance of Garzelli and his team, not to mention the beautiful bianchi of Ruanjo. I hoped Nibali would win, but to be fair Contador was not only a class above the rest but his team seeemed to...

not sure about that, a lot of "very quiet, always respectful, asset to the community types" have commited a lot of dreadful crimes. He has survived at the top of his profession for a long time so I doubt he is as as saintly or as lovely as you suggest thanks

i can see that - good call

yes i tend to agree- Ullrich's background is the complete reversal of Armstrong's. Ullrich had the sport chosen because of his natural abilities' Armstrong chose his sport, the essential difference between the communist and democratic societies (very generally speaking). Comments that Ullrich...