Recent content by HoustonHammer

Can you name a single case of doping that was thrown out on a 'technicality' with respect to how the offense was announced? I'm sure the Spanish have a long list of phony pretenses on their minds, but I doubt this is one of them.

You realize that the bold statement above is illogical, right? You seem to be saying that A couldn't have happened before B, because B was a result of A. How could Saxo Bank have known that AC was a real possibility if BR hadn't already been talking to AC? As for perhaps not leaving Astana, I...

That makes two of us then - I'm just guessing. I figure the frame maker probably has to put up a pretty good chunk in term of their expenses supporting the technical side, and then maybe the other kit suppliers just throw their gear in for free. Then the headline sponsor puts up the real money...

I share your frustration, and I definitely agree that pro racing is monumentally disrespectful of fans. I was disgusted at Tw@tters latest commentary about the stats showing how clean the sport has become, saying the "data is difficult to understand, it’s not something tangible and available for...

Are you talking about Norcal in general, or among the cycling population? Here in the Houston area, I suspect it has been many years since he helped sell much among the serious cycling crowd, and racers will go to some lengths to avoid any association. I think the general public across the...

OK. Just trying to keep up my Clinic credentials by being paranoid about everything I read. You are adjudged to have had 'no fault or negligence'. Enjoy your freedom. I haven't been following the McIlvain story. My point about that was just that I doubt California law would allow them to...

It's not a common PR strategy for companies to make unsolicited public proclamations that they won't violate employment law. Btw - I noticed that BroDeal edited message #16 to fix his Kim/Lim typo, and then you edited your message #19 to add the phrase "P.S. Fixed the Lim/Kim typo." at...

Yeah, I thought he was pretty open about it, particularly when he was dying. Didn't he write about it in his book?

True, it's not anything like a scientific sample. I was just trying to demonstrate that as much as we might say it was possible to win without drugs, it looks like relatively few winners chose to do so. And I really don't know much about a couple of those guys, and was hoping others could fill...

It's totally wrong for anybody to be called obtuse for disagreeing on this subject. These are differing points of view, nothing more. I'm not aware of any evidence of Lemond doping, and I don't believe that the state of the sport when he was winning proves anything. But it's an argument of...

Quite true, but those graphs are meaningless without some description of what they're meant to portray. Certainly it seems to be a plot of estimated wattage, but then what? If Le Breton is right, and they're normalized figures, then your statement about a 10% edge being chemical is right. But if...

Really? I use mine for PEDs. Sorry, did I say PEDs? I meant PEZ... But seriously, I always assumed that the 'paid poster' thing was just a taunt. Recently, I'm starting to think there might be people who believe it.

Is this sarcasm, or do you really believe that someone could be paid to post here? I mean, I get a kick out of this place, but really, it an obscure forum that has maybe a couple hundred regular readers. What does that cost/benefit analysis look like?

Plus it was in the defense of Truth, Democracy, Liberty and Cheeseburgers. So that makes it OK.

In a little (reluctant) defense of these guys, they are very frustrated that UCI has not followed its own rules and referred the case to RFEC. What they are saying is that until UCI starts following the rules, they're not dealing with much more than rumor. I think that's a pretty fair position...