Recent content by soslow

Riding with earbuds is illegal in some jurisdictions. Be sure to check the laws in your area before making yourself deaf and playing in traffic.

Don't own sram Etap, but question for someone who has tried it or other wireless bike stuff. Have you ever experience any type of radio jamming making it stop working? Here's why I ask: every time I approach a certain fire station in my town my heart rate monitor stops working, wireless...

When I ride everything feels great until I slow down or stop for a stoplight or something. When I start up again the first 5 to 10 pedal revolutions gives me a extreme stabbing pain on the media side of my right knee. The kneecap does not seem to be involved it is to the left of that and...

Re: Mechanical doping: first rider caught Questions to answer: Did she actually ride the motorized bike or was it a spare in the pit? Is she the same size as the friend? If I jumped on my friend's bike my knees would hit me in the chin. If I sell a friend one of my bikes and he puts about a...

I think this has been mentioned before but in 2011, The German Sports University lab in Cologne -- accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency -- is warning athletes of the risks of accidental clenbuterol doping when traveling to China. The lab carried out an investigation that found that 22...

Throwing this out there to see if anyone has any ideas. My right knee has been giving me trouble all year. It goes like this: Pre-ride no pain at all. I ride for a while in lower gears to warm up-no pain. After warm up, I flip it into the big ring and cruise along at a decent clip. Not...

I am making a totally uneducated guess. But is it possible the fact that Lance passed all his drug tests means there should have been no reason to investigate him and that makes all evidence gathered for no reason (from a legal point of view) inadmissible. Novitsky might have been thinking the...

Intent is a hard thing to prove. If they saw he had a motor on his bike, they would not have let him start. Here, they saw the camelback. They let him ride. End of story.

There needs to be push back on this. Letting UCI ban things after the race results were posted makes the whole sport look sloppy and amateurish. If it is not allowed then don't let him do it again. But in this instance, if they saw him and let him start with it, then they have implied that...

I did my share of bike racing back in the day and also was on a collegiate XC ski team. I was also roommate with a 2x US Nat’l cycling champ/TDF rider and trained with other national champs. I knew these people very well; well enough to know their secrets. You would know their names, but I...

Why dope now? So how long does blood doping have an effect? I thought it was maybe a few days. When was Ricco's next scheduled race? If it isn't for a while, what would he be the purpose of blood doping now? Certainly not so he could drop his winter training partners. Wonder if he was...

Here's a weird thing that happens every time I ride through a specific intersection. My heart monitor pulse rate goes to zero. It stays at zero for about two blocks. Then it comes back on. Never fails. I can even turn around and make it happen again. The only thing I can think of is...

Does anyone know, or has anyone heard AC claim that he had an out of competion test between the Dauphine and the Tour?:rolleyes:

Yeah I lost weight on it, but because I was so strung out on the stuff I couldn't ride and also lost aerobic fitness. Does this sound like something someone prepping for the Tour would do. Clen makes it even worse from what I've seen, but does help maintain muscle. Clen adds the chance that a...

T3 too? The Astana source says AC was also taking the thyroid hormone T3, in addition to the clenbuterol. In one way that makes sense. T3 is a natural human hormone and so may be hard to detect as a doping agent. Is it even banned? T3 legality is somewhat pointless, since the clenbuterol...