Motoman

[the big ring]

Now has his own thread...

What makes me think Tyler's story is corroborated:

1. "Stars n bikes" == "Stars n stripes".

sorry, I meant whether any journalists or even readers of the forum had tried to contact him or know him - Coyle's footnote indicated there was a language barrier, so it wasn't a very productive telephone conversation.

If he didn't speak English well (Coyle says there were communication issues) my French friend believes he would not use such a blatantly American / English term for his shop name.

2. Trek / Oakley dealer (ProjectONE tshirt is a Trek personalised design initiative.)

3. Photos with star bike riders

All 3 of which insinuate he has an "in" with the pro peloton and its suppliers.

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Starsnbikes
Facebook page's only "like": http://www.facebook.com/laboratoiresineldea

 

[hrotha]

Come on, I came here for the pictures. MOAR PICTURES.

 

[the big ring]

ETA: NB: The Lance photo Coyle alludes to is gone.

 

[Dead Star]

 

[the big ring]

Pic above of Sean Yates & Motoman

@nyvelocity: Translation: This spring, Motoman Philippe Maire also cycled round with Shaun Yates, current team leader of Sky.

http://twitpic.com/ard09c
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Oh dear.

 

[Dead Star]

Pic above of Sean Yates & Motoman

Indeed. Apologies for not inserting description myself.

Motoman. you can just picture the comic book in your head.

 

[JRanton]

I don't see what the big deal is. Yates is just catching up with an old friend. Why does it mean anything in relation to Team Sky?

 

[AlpineClimbr]

ETA: NB: The Lance photo Coyle alludes to is gone.

https://twitter.com/nyvelocity/status/246722635856216064/photo/1

 

[Justin Pain]

What is all the fuzz with this Motoman? Is he a dope dealer/transporter?

 

[The Hitch]

I don't see what the big deal is. Yates is just catching up with an old friend. Why does it mean anything in relation to Team Sky?

No big deal. 1 poster posted a tweet. Another said - wow. But dont let that stop yall from defining the entire - sky is suspicious argument as being based entirely on that 1 photo.

 

[the big ring]

I don't see what the big deal is. Yates is just catching up with an old friend. Why does it mean anything in relation to Team Sky?

Do you have some background on their friendship, or an understanding of how a professional UK rider / DS became friends with a Frenchman?

 

[thehog]

Do you have some background on their friendship, or an understanding of how a professional UK rider / DS became friends with a Frenchman?

Family friends. Just like with Ferrari

 

[TubularBills]

What is all the fuzz with this Motoman? Is he a dope dealer/transporter?

Blood delivery via motorcycle to USPS (Landis refrigerated panniers/Hamilton in his book).

i.e. Mr. Rest Day Blood Bags.

Vaughters: They draw the blood right after the Dauphine.

Andreu: How do they sneak it in, or keep it until needed? I'm sure it's not with the truck in the fridge.

Vaughters: Motorcycle – refrigerated panniers. On the rest day. Floyd has a photo of the thing.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/indepth/landis/

[Floyd denies possession of said photo]

In Tyler's book a footnote reveals that once they switched to frozen, the Blood Bags could travel unrefrigerated for up to 8 hours before they became risky.

 

[FitSsikS]

I wonder if those pics Floyd took of the blood bike....(Erythrocycle ) will ever show up?
Or did they and I missed it?

Oh crap.....I gotta type faster.

(or edit faster!!!)

 

[the big ring]

In the context of the current subject matter, I found this interesting.

I asked my French friend what the contractions were for Philippe (Phil). When I mentioned Philippe calls himself "Philou" (on Facebook) she said it's more a name you would call a child - of the more rascally persuasion, and an unusual choice for a man.

It comes from the French word

filou: noun; crook, rogue, rascal

 

[TubularBills]

 

[FitSsikS]

I see....hide in plain sight.

 

[Jeremiah]

I don't see what the big deal is. Yates is just catching up with an old friend. Why does it mean anything in relation to Team Sky?

 

[Jeremiah]

I don't see what the big deal is. Yates is just catching up with an old friend. Why does it mean anything in relation to Team Sky?

https://www.facebook.com/search/results.php?q=Philippe+Maire&init=public#!/philou.maire

 

[thehog]

Refill mobile.

 

[TylerDurden1]

just read the chapter where Tyler talked about motoman. So that guy is real! I'm really impressed with Tyler's book, jesus christ!

 

[Robert21]

Vaughters: They draw the blood right after the Dauphine.

Andreu: How do they sneak it in, or keep it until needed? I'm sure it's not with the truck in the fridge.

Vaughters: Motorcycle – refrigerated panniers. On the rest day. Floyd has a photo of the thing.

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/indepth/landis/

Also of relevance, this time from non other than Prentice Steffen, ex USP team doctor, taken from his interview in L'Equipe of 6 October 2005:

STEFFEN:

It's this way and only this way that we will really be able to combat doping. I'll explain something I've been told relating to certain teams in the 2005 Tour and you'll understand where this sport has gone...

L'EQUIPE:

Who told you?

STEFFEN:

Someone in the heart of a team that I can't name. Before going to the start of the Tour, the riders of certain teams, during their training camps, took EPO (which disappears from the urine within three days, even 12 hours when small doses are used) and took their hematocrits up to around 60. Then a doctor withdraws their blood, saving it in special containers, to lower their blood parameters into the accepted range (50) so that they pass without difficulty the medical controls before the Tour. Then, as the teams well know, during the race the vampires (2) can arrive any day but always between 7 and 8 in the morning. After that time, there is no more testing and the riders were able to reinject their own blood. They were racing the stage with an enormous advantage- their hemotrocrit in the 55 to 58 range during the race- then in the evening at the hotel, someone again withdraws their blood so that they sleep without risk (3) and, especially, they escape the possible tests the next morning.

L'EQUIPE:

This practice was used every evening during the three weeks of the Tour?

STEFFEN:

No, just for important stages in the mountains or maybe for a time trial. It's so simple to do and there's no risk of being caught unless the police intervene. The blood was shuttled by motorcycle in a refrigerated compartment.

 

[ThisFrenchGuy]

What is all the fuzz with this Motoman? Is he a dope dealer/transporter?

He was carrying bags of blood on the Tour for USPS according to Tyler Hamilton.
EDIT: Beaten, thread moving at quick pace.

 

[shojii]

Right, so at least we know that Lance sometimes helps former assistants set up a bikeshops once the contracts are over....

 

[Cycle Chic]

Just this one thats obviously photoshopped...