Recent content by robtclements

Its not the number of endorsements, its how much they bring in for the team. A rider - any rider - could live very well on endorsements which would see his/her team go under

More likely, the bunch sprints in le Tour weren't being seen at all. The old saw about the race taking place in the mountains seems to have been particularly true this year When you add the cost of having a sprinter who needs an expensive chain in front of him to be any good & who doesn't...

If it did, the Highroad team would still exist. In reality, it seems to have to have had no marketable value at all

Not sure i agree with all of your ideas but at least they make sense as a plan. It's still too F1 style for my taste, though. Here's a different approach: Cut the cost of entering the cycling business to all players. Standardise equipment wherever feasible; & reduce the size of teams -...

The problem with the F1 analogy is that F1 was popular; but its been struggling to hold its financial ground for several years. The circus has been propped up in recent years by the fees paid by race organisers in non-traditional countries; but with these races being held (or not being held, as...

Playing advocates' devil, this plan is a DS trying to making life easy for other DSs. Many of them are meant to make cycling more like F1 motor racing, which might have made more sense 10 years ago rather than in a time where racing are getting pulled from the calendar for cost, political & lack...

Is it also possible that the systematic across-the-team doping described by Landis (the real eye-opener for me in his testimony, i have to admit) has become too expensive for routine use. Note that i didn't say risky - i said expensive. Budgets are being cut because of the commercial...

Since Abdu never rode a sprint without something spiking up his system, it's difficult to believe that the sprinters who grew up in his terror aren't still doping now; but.... The current drug regimes seem to be more about recovery than performance per se, which is why they're appealing to...