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Well, I admire your rosy outlook on the sport.

I don't know and only heard scuttlebutt that some guys were. It sounds like it is or was pretty easy to buy the stuff, so I would not be surprised. You gotta realize the thought process of these amateurs and masters who were drinking the kool aid...."if the pros were doing it, then I need to be...

OMG! I am referring back to when I raced as a kid in Europe. Go back a few years and read my posts in this thread.

Thank you for posting this! I really didn't want to respond earlier. I am one of those old guys (73 now) who raced as a kid and started up again as a master. The drug issue is real and and has been for a very long time. I sure saw it as a kid and though I started as a master and thought no way...

Maybe that's true on a local basis and it is probably what I felt when I first got back into racing, but it didn't take long to notice something was amiss in the bigger races when guys outside our area started coming in and it was certainly not the case when I started going to Natz again. All...

Yep, I was glad to stop as well. I kept 2 of my really nice bikes, but I did have to switch out the cranksets to old man stuff.....50-34 LOL, but it still is fun to just ride. As expensive as the cranksets were, it had to be a hell of lot less than this guy spent on whatever he was putting in...

Yep the Kool Aid is still strong! I miss being fit and strutting around like a peacock, but damn, I sure don't miss being disappointed by idiots like this. I guess anything competitive gonna bring this stuff out, but we sure have our share of it in this sport.

He might be dumb, but at least the guy is genuine "old school"...Ritalin was the popular one back in the pro fields in the '70's. Guys took it as a suppository during the race and it wouldn't show up in the test. No idea how that would work though, LOL.

Yep, remember some scuttle butt along those lines.....no judgement, but sometimes the kool aid tastes pretty damn good.

Well said brother! I get cynical about my racing stuff yes, but all in all I got to travel and live all over Europe, the US , Canada and South America and meet a lot of great folks. A lot of my close friends are from cycling, but there sure is that dark side to the sport. I have to justify it...

You make me laugh! It has been 11 years since that race he was busted at and it was my last. I was out training in December (months after the race) when the news broke on a cold and wet day. I got home, got warmed up, saw the news and said WTF, why on earth am I out doing this at my age to beat...

Yep, very impressive to be so good for so long and balance out a career and family. Most of us can go for a few years and then something has to give. I don't recall what he did for a career or his family stuff.

I misread, thought you were tested as an old guy, not when we were kids. Between the pee and the blood must be pretty intrusive. Plus all that 24 hr reporting stuff they have to do for the where abouts. Seems like a pretty high price to pay for the riders, especially when we start hearing the...

I'm curious, as I was never tested as a master....did they do the full protocol....pull up jersey, shorts down and watch you go? And then seal up 2 bottles with melted wax over the caps? That is what they used to do back the last time I was tested...jeez 45 years ago at least....imagine it has...

Pro's amateurs, masters, tuesday night world's and now Zwift..........paracyclists next? Oh wait there has to someone who has been busted for that by now.