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    2016 TdF, Stage 19: Albertville → Mont Blanc (146km)

    Re: Re: Someone had to say it!
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    2016 TdF, Stage 19: Albertville → Mont Blanc (146km)

    Re: "Shirley"?
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    2016 TdF, Stage 19: Albertville → Mont Blanc (146km)

    Re: I did my best 10 mile TT ride during a thunderstorm, this was after days of having breathing problems.
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    2016 TdF, Stage 19: Albertville → Mont Blanc (146km)

    Re: Rain works for my dust/pollen allegies.
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    Motor doping thread

    Re: This was a news item that came out a few days after the Stade 2/Corriere della Sera documentary/article back in April. Oddly when Stade 2 visited Varjas to discuss motors for the documentary he couldn't show them a rim motor, or a hub/cassette motor, despite apparently supplying the latter...
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    Motor doping thread

    Re: Re: Because they can claim `look at us we're doing something'. As to whether there's much point in some of the testing they're doing well that's another matter. The easiest place by far to put a viable motor is in the seat-tube, and it's also the easiest to check.
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    Motor doping thread

    Re: How would anyone follow up on Stade 2's half-baked `investigation'?! So now you're suggesting Cummings might be in the frame, and your evidence is...?
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    Motor doping thread

    Re: Re: Well there's some footage of a 6 or 7 year old kid using the same position. I'm going to give the position a try, but my really fast descending days are 15 years ago and more in the past!
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    Motor doping thread

    Re: I've watched the Hesjedal crash and those far more qualified than me suggest it is evidence of the sum total of nothing. As for your hub motor, please let's see a model or a drawing of one. Stade 2 couldn't show us one, but surely someone can if such a thing exists. What I don't get is...
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    Motor doping thread

    Re: Re: He was pedalling quite slowly, I think he got the main benefit from improved cornering, plus none of the chasing group taking charge of the chase down.
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    Motor doping thread

    Re: Re: Also bizarre that he gained time on the descent where a motor would have been of little use, but lost time on the flat where using a motor would have provided the most benefit. Also what `wasn't human' about it? The position is a common one, pedalling in that position apparently isn't...
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    Motor doping thread

    Re: He said it wasn't planned, but he had a 54 ring put on in the morning for the descent. It probably wasn't the first time he'd pedalled like that, in one of the interviews he mentioned trying various things on descents when training with his team-mates.
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    Motor doping thread

    Re: You'd sit down with your producer, and also preferably someone with some cycling experience, and then go through the scenarios, for example, `what excuses might a team come out with?'. I guess that they didn't have the resources to put in place a big enough team to cover the Lotto part of...
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    Motor doping thread

    Re: Re: I'm not for one moment suggesting that Stade should have been nice to Lotto, I'm simply suggesting that they could have taken their investigations further and possibly trapped Lotto with nowhere to go. Some shots of the bike at the finish would have been really handy, and might have...
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    Motor doping thread

    Re: I'm talking about real journalism, where you put hard questions to the other party, and if the answers don't stack up you nail them. I'm also talking about a basic journalistic technique, where you seek to protect your media outlet and yourself from printing something that might be...
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