Reasons to / not to dope

[Basecase]

Reasons not to dope:

Unfair on fellow competitors
Health side effects
Cost
Risk of penalty if caught
Shame if caught

Reasons to dope:

Fame
Money
Success

 

[ChewbaccaD]

 

[BYOP88]

To be cool. I mean Wiggans pre-sideburns was uncool, he grew some sideburns becomes cool and wins boatloads of races.

 

[Kender]

To be cool. I mean Wiggans pre-sideburns was uncool, he grew some sideburns becomes cool and wins boatloads of races.

maybe they increased his aero by deflecting the wind around his ears more efficiently.

 

[ebandit]

Big

.............it's not BIG...........it's not clever

and any fame and fortune gained will only make the athlete bitter and twisted

Mark L

 

[slowspoke]

1) it's cheating.
2).…

 

[DirtyWorks]

Reasons to dope:

Fame
Money
Success
Federation supports doping
Not *that* bad getting busted doping. Winning fixes everything.

Fixed that for you.

 

[andy1234]

Reason to dope: because everyone will think you are doping anyway.

 

[PotentialPro]

Not to dope:
Difficulty of finding right program.
Finding a doctor that will help
Trusting grey/black market drugs
Trusting non doctors to help and not kill you.


To dope:
Availability
Information of how to do it is easy to find
easy to beat the system
Culture made it acceptable
Society less judgemental

 

[D-Queued]

Isn't that why you join a bike gang?

Dave.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Trypanophobia

 

[Briant_Gumble]

Trypanophobia

Is that a fear of needles.

Primary motivation for a lot not to dope now depending on your definitions of success and failure: you could end up like Lance.

 

[Master50]

How about taking dope and spending all that cash yet still not talented enough to win or even to keep up? Doping does not make everyone a star only appear better than they are. So a cat 4 can race cat 2. That ought to garner a lot of notoriety. Anyone who is made famous from doping is already a better rider than 99% of the rest of us. I would go so far to say that no pro rider can stay a pro if they cannot also survive clean. Maybe another way to put it is you need to be talented enough to keep up in a pro race and handle the distance clean or doping won't help make you a star but it might get you a job you can't keep.
Then there is the cost. You need a top level pro contract to afford it.
It is only the really expensive stuff that is even remotely undetectable.
I have one question for the clinic regulars is who is paying for Jonny domestique's drugs? You think Ferrari gives a discount to domestiques? Even on USPS the real dopers were the tour team and the $400+k salaried riders who could afford the drugs. It isn't like the drugs for postal bikes thing was paying 7 years of it.

 

[zlev11]

Reasons to dope: Kick ***

Reasons not to dope: ???