Recent content by LMaggitti

You're missing the point - two seperate issues here: (1) What people believe is "really" going on - yeah, sure, just more evidence supporting the proposition that most of the pros are doping - if you already belive that (as I do), you don't need this additional evidence; if you don't, this...

Lived both places - obviously Boulder is better in many (most) respects - but I found the community in NYC better - in Boulder, there seems a big gap between the casual riders and the hard core riders - at my age & with limited time to train, I fall in the gap between - whereas in NYC there were...

10 years removed from the scene, and prior replies have covered many of the specifics - but the big picture is that there are a surprisingly large number of great rides possible in/around NYC, easy access to rural routes, and a huge & awesome cycling community. The over the GW bridge/9W route...

On the substance, I'm (mostly) with the "haters." But my god, they can be just as frothingly irrational as the "fan boys." Let's aside aside opinions about what is "really" going on. (There's PLENTY of evidence aside from the current investigation suggesting that yes, (almost) everyone...

Given the (apparent) ease in which even current, more stringent testing can be evaded, I think that we should be very skeptical of assuming that the French peleton is or was particularly clean. Sometimes the people who want to claim that lack of doping explains poor French performance of late...

As frustrating as it is to see comments by people who claim that lack of positives "proves" riders are clean (and I'm increasingly convinced that BPC is a troll who doesn't really believe that for a minute), and as much as there is reason to question the credibility of the UCI vis a vis doping...

Emphasis added. So far my comments on this board have tended to criticize the comments of the extreme "haters." Let me switch gears a bit to comment on this ... We KNOW that nobody doped at this year's Tour? Really? We know that? Words fail me. I am probably responding to a troll; no one...

But there are a lot of assumptions (many have which have been questioned) behind those numbers. Moreover, historically there has been a pretty steady progression of performance among endurance athletes. Yeah, sure, in retrospect it's easy (and all most certainly accurate) to attribute some of...

Long time follower (so I am much more familiar with these issues than most novice commenters), only recently started commenting. But still not an "expert." That said, two ... questions ..., I guess, rather than points: (1) That 20% figure - what evidence is there that it is that high...

There's a difference between being suspicious of such increases, and being certain that they are entirely the result of doping. Especially in the absence of other evidence of doping (and I readily concede that there is other evidence in Armstrong's case - remember, this started with my comment...

I didn't say "no one" would be convinced - just "very few people." I'll stand by that.

I've made my arguments on that above. Obviously you don't accept them. I won't repeat them. There seems to be a tendency here to rehash again and again. I'm trying to avoid that. But you might want to consider the fact that even your fellow "haters" don't seem to place nearly the weight that...

There is indeed a lot of scepticism about Wiggins' performance (there are multiple threads on the topic). As you can see from above, I am more willing than some to accept the possibility of such a transition ... unaided. But by and large the people more sceptical about the possibility of such a...

And the opinion of most of the people on this forum, even among the "haters." Scroll up for at least one example. If you have been spending as much time on these forums as you appear to, you would be aware that even most of Armstrong's critics concede that he was/is a very good cyclist.

Oh, I don't doubt it. And I stand by my responses. And I think that this little exchange is very revealing - of the difference between you and the other "haters" here - they (right or wrong) are capable of reasoned argument and logic. You ... not so much.