Ta for the welcome peeps.
What did I see?. In uk pro scene I saw injected "supplements" that I believe to have been legal..Glucose , Iron etc.
I saw what I believe to be amphetimine shortly before a criterioum injected by two riders sharing the same neadle.
One is currently working for a very succesful national team linked to a very well known sattalite broadcaster.
I`m aware ( cus I was there) of a urine from a team manager being passed in a drinks can to the same rider to curcumnavigate medical control and that when a certain race organistion got wind of it there action was to tell the manager to pull the team bar the one rider who had won a stage and no other action was taken. Said race organisation had as one of it`s members a certain Pat.
I was outspoken , as riders rep on the then PCA board, about the attitude towards doping within some of the uk ranks and that realy didnt sit well with some people.
My own take on uk pro racing then was nothing we took part in was hard enough to warrent doping. Thats not to say it was always easy but certainly no harder than Star Trophy racing.
Race callusion was as big an issue and one my own wins in 88 was partialy the result of getting away with a top amauter and being told effectivly " make sure your winning this or else youl have to sit on".
And thats exactly what happened.
With Teka I saw only the personal injecting of what I believe to be Iron by a good German rider but I have to say my time at Teka was not a good one and I actualy got to race very little that year.
What I did find is that my over the counter vitamin supplents consisting of vit C, Pharmaton and Metatone Tonic seemed to be viewed with much mirth

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Gossip about who used what included a uk " untouchable" who got a certain KOM in a certein big tour using HGH and steroid use amongst serveral top names on the uk scene. The first mutterings of epo I ever heard were in 89...Gert Jan Tunisse and Stevan Rooks being mentioned...but very little was known by most at that time I felt.
I rode alongside Lemond in the very early season Tour Of Americas in 89 and Id say , judging on how he was strugling , over weight etc that I`d accept Lemond as possibly the only "clean" winner of the TDF ever.