Recent content by vrusimov

Well how does an indictment of the entire peloton not cast suspicion on Indurain? I have average speeds posted along with times. The 1995 results have the average speed of each rider. I don't know. I see over 30 riders with a faster average speed than Lemond was able to accomplish in either 85...

Just a little rhetorical rant on my part...no more, no less. If it pleases or not an audience, then so be it. I have equal suspicions about Luxembourg, Bergerac, Hautacam, and LaPlagne. Specifically 1994 and 1995...Indurain is a man without equal, regardless of the Gewiss-Ballan nuisance that...

More telling than Alpe D'Huez, and perhaps more damaging to Indurain's case is the historical performances done at Lac de Vassiviere: 1985: no aerobars [45.7km] 1 Lemond 62:51 [43.5 kph] 2 Hinault 62:46 1990: with aerobars [45.5km] 1 Breukink 62:40 [43.5 kph] 4 Indurain 63:20 5...

Lemond should just quit while he is ahead. He has done much to resurrect himself over the last few years but this is just silliness. It has been proffered that he was "addicted" to doping before he suddenly emerged on the scene. First Froome now Ulrich ... when both are questionable. I love...

My friend, I am 5'10"[1.78m] 67-68kg and every day of my life I can see veins crawling up my fore-arms like Froome does. He is thin buddy...bony, protruding wrists and all...probably thinner than he looks, with some distance from the camera and blurring from photo quality. He has 3" on me, if...

Well it hardly takes a genius to point that Horner presents a rather specious argument here. There is nothing magical about gradient, time and height. Its so simple a caveman could do it. The dehydration insinuation doesn't wash either.

Of course you won't read it but you sure will take time to comment on its not read contents, which only proves that you couldn't resist the surreptitious and "salacious" solicitations of its suppositions after all. And then you subvert yourself still further with your hypocritical observation...

In 2009 Armstrong's Giro Hb/Hct values were the following: Hb..........Hct. 14.8 - 43.5 [beginning] 13.6 - 40 13 - 38.2 [end] This is consistent with what should happen to a rider over the rigors of a three week Grand Tour. What do we see at the Tour? The following: Hb.........Hct...

and still bamboozled by it as well!:eek:

A club ride ain't a three week grand tour and the 73 year old does not race for money...a fatuous syllogism at best. ~6.3 w/kg for 43 minutes on the final day of a three week tour is rather stupendous for a rider who has shown no such ability for that length of time. Recording the lowest...

That would depend on the predisposition to believe the guilt or innocence of the rider in question. The double-negative, as you so punctiliously point out, is proffered as a purely polemic pejorative not particularly predicated on anything but a psuedo-prosaic pronouncement. Call it vernacular...

The usual syllogism employed by supporters of suspect performances is that detractors simply label every winner a doper. The fallacy in that sophistry is that it is not merely a question of said rider winning but how said rider is winning and if said rider's performance juxtaposed against his...

Ross Tuckers analysis has always bothered me but I guess he would rather not be deemed a psuedo-quack like Vayer is in some circles. But straight up. If Contador is climbing at a higher VAM than Riis then how can this not be called on the carpet? Answer? No positive doping test, per Coggan. Even...

...and it's sundown!:eek:

I must confess that I got a real kick out of Wiggins' observations on Christian Vande Velde, who he just "knew" was clean and on mere bread and water. Imagine his surprise when CVV confessed in 2012 to blood doping during his career. You read this kind of stuff and it just becomes really...