ChewbaccaD said:I bolded the part where yo said a 5-10% gain was possible, and then where you said "However, to go from being an average rider to a champion probably requires about a 10% improvement on its own but even moreso when you take into account the fact that the GC contenders might already be getting a 5-7% increase in performance from PEDs, therefore, the average rider might need a 20%" I don't think you read your own argument. My maths is not so good, but your arguments are much worse. Wait, how does 10+5-7% = 20%???? Look up the word "convoluted" and get back to me...
.....oh great, a budding lawyer with a chip on his shoulder doing his thang to impress the local yokels.... ok ok you're a world class arguer and will make a real ace number one cracker jack lawyer...oh and you're real smart too.....consider this your pat on the back, now go bother somebody else( maybe you can go join forces with our resident serial forum stalker CoachFergie and go beat some other thread senseless with your finely tuned arguing skills )...the point that Mr. Krebs was making was simple enough for even a lummox such as myself to understand....and I can also understand the implications that it has for legions of haters that populate this site, you included...so sorry that the air has been let out of one the major mindless contentions youse base your hate on...
...ok...LA is not the sweetest guy in the world...we get that...and ok...he most likely used PED''s...we get that too...he was part of a lot of other related bad stuff...and we get that as well....that being said, there is still one heck of story here that does not reduce itself to simple-minded broad brush strokes...and I for one would love to hear more of the complexities involved... and Mr Kreb's was trying to do just that...not perfectly perhaps but it was a very reasonable try considering the context...so thank you Mr Kreb's for your contribution, some of us appreciated it....
Cheers
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