One reason is if you're having blood extracted for reinfusion later in the year, you can use the EPO (with HgH, apparently) to rapidly return your red blood cell levels back to "normal".
Yeah, let me get this straight...
Several riders, in the new "cleaner" era of cycling, are putting out the same power as doped to the gills Basso when he didn't even have to push himself to a dominating Giro win in 2006?
The French cycling magazine that has been estimating rider's power...
He appeared to clearly ease-up and let the group go when the acceleration for the line started.
What kind of mechanical other than slipping your chain which you would have thought we'd have seen or heard about, doesn't allow you to pedal as hard as you can?
He was clearly working near his...