Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

[Oldman]

Good question. He has already been confronted in the podcast. He says that it is very time-consuming. There he says also that they are in the process of developing new control processes, as the current processes do not rule out the possibility of motor doping being used. Those are his words.

But ultimately they can do what they want as they are the only body authorised to control the bikes.

It is inexplicable to me that there is so little and inadequate control. There is really only one question I have to ask myself. Are they really trying to find something or is it just to look like it fot the good image of the sport?

Above all, we must not forget that they only check 1 bike per rider, if at all. What about all the bike changes? Like the one from Pogacar at Roubaix, for example. Why did he change his bike at all? He didn't have a flat tyre. In general, we've seen a lot of bike changes in recent years where I, as an amateur, always ask myself how shitty these high-end racing bikes must be. I ride more than 10k a year and have a maximum of 2 punctures a year. How can it be that the professionals with better material change their bikes that often?

Possibly because most are running the most current version of wireless shifting? How many times have you witnessed bike changes due to that or see riders banging their shoe against a stuck front derailleur? Couple that with debris stuck in disc brake calipers, etc and it's more than flat tires. It could even be sponsored tires that suck on slick pavement.
I've got cable shifting on my gravel bike and 13 speed, single ring Campy. Never a problem except sticky mud. It's rough here and few want to ride the newest stuff 'cause it's expensive to crash. The ProTour guys have no choice.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Why you are not a fan of Armstrong anymore? There is no reason from somebody who was a fan of him, suddendly not being his fan anymore.

If i were a big fan of Armstrong, i would "demand" the 7 Tours France back, who were unfairly taken from him. It is probably one of the biggest injustices in the history of sport.

We mature as people and I realized cycling is a farse (like other individual sports) when we talk about doping. Back in those days, I believed in the fairytaile of a rider who almost died to cancer in 97 and cameback to win 7 Tours. There won't be ever another Armstrong (popularity).

 

[Oldman]

Then the UCI is in breach of its own rules. Below is from the above linked UCI motor doping programme:

And the teams probably don't trust the UCI either. I wouldn't want anyone but a team mechanic dismantling and reassembling a bike that will descend at 60mph the next day.

 

[Gratemans]

Why you are not a fan of Armstrong anymore? There is no reason from somebody who was a fan of him, suddendly not being his fan anymore.

If i were a big fan of Armstrong, i would "demand" the 7 Tours France back, who were unfairly taken from him. It is probably one of the biggest injustices in the history of sport.

Those are some pretty weird questions..
People change, opinions can change based on things you learn. Someone could have been a fan of Armstrong, then after they learn he doped and destroyed other peoples lives to cover it up, they can surely stop being a fan? How is that hard to understand?

Not that I ever was an Armstrong fan btw. But in your world, you pick a favourite and then you remain a fan until the end of days no matter if they turn out to have a knack for organizing genocides and kill puppies as a hobby? That's just weird dude.

And if this was some way of referring to Peyroteo being a fan of Pogacar, who you think dopes: well he seems to think so as well. He also believes a lot of other riders dope. Including Jonas. And I gotta say, imo that's a lot more of a realistic point of view then the one you showed a couple pages back...

 

[bNator]

The 2024 Paris-Roubaix was the moment I became convinced that he is motor doping. He did not win, but the fact that he nearly matched a significantly heavier more experienced classics rider on the cobbles Is beyond suspicious.

The sudden acceleration It was eerily reminiscent of Cancellara’s attacks. Out of nowhere, he launches an explosive burst not a gradual buildup, but an instant surgeright on the edge of the cobblestones where the ground is sketchy and full of loose dirt. Any cyclist knows that kind of sudden acceleration on loose uneven cobbles/dirt is nearly impossible there’s simply not enough traction to pull it off without slipping or losing control(unless you used a motor)
The bike change: This is the smoking gun for me. Late in the race with no visible mechanical issue, he swaps bikes. On the new bike his pace noticeably drops suddenly he is losing time to Van der Poel. Before the change, he was holding the gap with ease. Almost as if he knew the win was out of reach, so he switched to a regular bike to play it safe.

Why would he wanna play it safe? Isn’t there a UCI conspiracy where he gets off the hook so that everyone can make money? There’s nothing to be afraid of…

 

[anti -e-bike]

pogi uses a motor, and the earth is flat.

bro is spitting the facts