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#Skyfall This is going to be beautiful

Re: Moto-fraud: first rider caught Indeed, if a motor applies the power at the axle/spindle then an SRM or spider based powermeter will detect those additional watts. If a powermeter is used with the strain gauges in the crank arms then those additional watts from a motor would not be measured.

Motors might have been available in 1998, but batteries with sufficient energy density and weight to be practical on a racing bike weren't. This story is a bit of a farce.

Re: In which case, and as Alex alluded too, why was he being dropped on climbs in the 2008-2011 period despite his race weight and threshold power apparently not being much different to what it is now. Even at 71kg he would be at 5.9 W/kg on climbs so why wasn't he up there in summit finishes...

Viagra... :D

Exactly, Sastre rode the Giro to a podium placing ( now that Di Luca is gone ) and won two mountain top finishes. One thing I've noticed about Sastre is that he can't start climbs at a high pace. He needs time to fine his pace and even then he only has about one good acceleration. Now that he...

Cyclingnews editorial guys, I think you have not understood the main selling point of your site. Simple to use with the information at your finger tips and easy to read and navigate. Just like Wikipedia, you had a simple uncluttered layout and were easy to use, that's why it worked. What do you...

This is awful, I thought it was going to turn into the Web 2.0 nightmare that is BikeRadar.com People liked cyclingnews.com because it had a simple clean design. That is now broken. :(

1. Fränk Schleck 2. Alberto Contador 3. Christian Vande Velde