Team Ineos (Formerly the Sky thread)

[JimmyFingers]

must come as a genuine surprise to guys like slot and walsh to see how small the world is.
must be one brilliant mechanic

He was a mule for Armstrong no? So we think he is doing the same for Porte and Froome? Running EPO around Europe for them?

 

[Benotti69]

He was a mule for Armstrong no? So we think he is doing the same for Porte and Froome? Running EPO around Europe for them?

Why not? Plenty of pro bike mechanics in the Monaco area.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

He was a mule for Armstrong no? So we think he is doing the same for Porte and Froome? Running EPO around Europe for them?

no, we think Motoman helps fix Porte's bike when he gets a puncture. Lubing Froome's chain too.

 

[JRTinMA]

He was a mule for Armstrong no? So we think he is doing the same for Porte and Froome? Running EPO around Europe for them?

EPO is so yesterday. He is probably just transporting pineapple juice and hypo-allegenic pillows.

 

[Fearless Greg Lemond]

Perfectly explainable, Cagnes sur Mer is right down the Col de la Madone. Anyone with a little geographical knowledge knows.

Lolz.

 

[gooner]

owenslotTheTimes ‏@owenslot now

Philippe Maire (Motoman) told us how he used to work w/ Chris Froome and Richie Porte following introduction from Sean Yates

????

Another dot to join against Sky.

must come as a genuine surprise to guys like slot and walsh to see how small the world is.
must be one brilliant mechanic

So few good doctors and bike mechanics out there. Amazing.

Sky really no how to dirty their bib and then proclaim innocence, naivety and still say they are the clean transparent team.

Porte and Froome live in Monaco. The south of France must be full of bike shops and ex team mechanics, but only motoman will do?

Stinks of doping.

This is just unbelievable as if it's new news. I have pointed this article out on numerous occasions as a means to dispel the notion that journalists with the Times aren't compromised in their reporting and only now you acknowledge this.

I'm not saying Motoman is involved in doping with them but writing an article mentioning Froome and Porte alongside him after first writing about his history with LA, is not something that they and Sky themselves would be happy to be seen put in a paper.

 

[Cycle Chic]

This is just unbelievable as if it's new news. I have pointed this article out on numerous occasions as a means to dispel the notion that journalists with the Times aren't compromised in their reporting and only now you acknowledge this.

I'm not saying Motoman is involved in doping with them but writing an article mentioning Froome and Porte alongside him after first writing about his history with LA, is not something that they
and Sky themselves would be happy to be seen put in a paper.

This is a new book - just out - The Times are doing a Tiernan - Locke and getting in before the info about motoman link to Froome and Porte is outed by the readers.

 

[Benotti69]

This is just unbelievable as if it's new news. I have pointed this article out on numerous occasions as a means to dispel the notion that journalists with the Times aren't compromised in their reporting and only now you acknowledge this.

I'm not saying Motoman is involved in doping with them but writing an article mentioning Froome and Porte alongside him after first writing about his history with LA, is not something that they and Sky themselves would be happy to be seen put in a paper.

It would appear that the Times/STimes are aware that fans are not believing their reporting of Sky and they are trying to find reasons to project impartiality.

TeamSky are no doubt reading the clinic as much as Armstrong/Stapleton/Bruyneel did. Only difference is the latter felt untouchable, whereas Sky are learning from those mistakes, but still making massive errors.

Why would Sky hire a guy like Motoman?

IF Sky were clean they wouldn't be using a guy like motoman to put air in their tyres!

 

[MartinGT]

It would appear that the Times/STimes are aware that fans are not believing their reporting of Sky and they are trying to find reasons to project impartiality.

TeamSky are no doubt reading the clinic as much as Armstrong/Stapleton/Bruyneel did. Only difference is the latter felt untouchable, whereas Sky are learning from those mistakes, but still making massive errors.

Why would Sky hire a guy like Motoman?

IF Sky were clean they wouldn't be using a guy like motoman to put air in their tyres!

The same reason they hired Leinders and Yates.

 

[gooner]

This is a new book - just out - The Times are doing a Tiernan - Locke and getting in before the info about motoman link to Froome and Porte is outed by the readers.

The article was printed on July 3 not today.(behind paywall)

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/cycling/tourdefrance/article3806610.ece

 

[gooner]

It would appear that the Times/STimes are aware that fans are not believing their reporting of Sky and they are trying to find reasons to project impartiality.

TeamSky are no doubt reading the clinic as much as Armstrong/Stapleton/Bruyneel did. Only difference is the latter felt untouchable, whereas Sky are learning from those mistakes, but still making massive errors.

Why would Sky hire a guy like Motoman?

IF Sky were clean they wouldn't be using a guy like motoman to put air in their tyres!

The article was out in July during the Tour. You make it sound like it was a PR on the Times part.

Sky don't give a toss about the clinic and shouldn't either for that matter. Stop building up your own importance.

 

[JimmyFingers]

EPO is so yesterday. He is probably just transporting pineapple juice and hypo-allegenic pillows.

While the sarcasm is obvious, I do sort of feel this is true. if Sky are on something fairly sure it will be more sophisticated then employing a known drugs mule to be a drugs mule transporting a drug that Ferrari himself said you'd crazy to take these days.

 

[Cycle Chic]

MAIRE Philippe ‏@MAIREPhilippe28 Aug
@yatesliam @TrainSharpSean le guidon ou la selle ?

Motoman still in touch with Sean Yates.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

The same reason they hired Leinders and Yates.

so lets see, Leinders for fixing riders bums, Motoman for pumping air into tires and an off the shelf driver to help pass around the gels?

 

[JimmyFingers]

And lo once more it begins

 

[JRTinMA]

While the sarcasm is obvious, I do sort of feel this is true. if Sky are on something fairly sure it will be more sophisticated then employing a known drugs mule to be a drugs mule transporting a drug that Ferrari himself said you'd crazy to take these days.

Alleged drug mule. Team doping went out in 2005. Sky would not hire Motoman, he would be hired by a rider directly. Maybe after an intro from Yates.

 

[JRanton]

The article was out in July during the Tour. You make it sound like it was a PR on the Times part.

Sky don't give a toss about the clinic and shouldn't either for that matter. Stop building up your own importance.

Perhaps not the clinic itself but certainly they care about opinions on social media and they've made decisions in response to them in the past.

 

[JRanton]

And lo once more it begins

It doesn't look great though does it, Jimmy?

 

[JimmyFingers]

It looks the same as it always does, we were talking about Motoman two years ago. The Sky thread is about recycling the same innuendo endlessly it seems. Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat.

 

[EnacheV]

owenslotTheTimes ‏@owenslot now

Philippe Maire (Motoman) told us how he used to work w/ Chris Froome and Richie Porte following introduction from Sean Yates

I'm sure soon will tell how he worked with all pro cyclists. Smells like a self promotion/ need of money.

It's like the old homeless drunk that grab your foot whispering "hey i worked for the great Gatsby".

also

Simone Warner ‏@SimoneWarner 3h

@owenslot What loaded tweet,very sensationalist of you.According to your interview he claims they went to him for bike 'mechanical problems'

"im hungry pleaseee clients"

P.S. JTL visited me yesterday for a dose pf PED's. Please retweet this. It's the truth and only the whole truth.

 

[JRanton]

It looks the same as it always does, we were talking about Motoman two years ago. The Sky thread is about recycling the same innuendo endlessly it seems. Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat.

To be honest today was the first I'd heard of Motoman working with Froome and Porte. It doesn't look great does it?

 

[sniper]

This is just unbelievable as if it's new news. I have pointed this article out on numerous occasions as a means to dispel the notion that journalists with the Times aren't compromised in their reporting and only now you acknowledge this.

I'm not saying Motoman is involved in doping with them but writing an article mentioning Froome and Porte alongside him after first writing about his history with LA, is not something that they and Sky themselves would be happy to be seen put in a paper.

first, it was Limited Hangout. When the Tdf passed through Nice this year, many journos/reporters went in search of motoman. So this probably would have come out with or without Slot.

second, did you see Slot's tweet? he doesn't believe it has anything to do with doping. That suggests a bias, since he simply cannot know.

 

[JimmyFingers]

It's looks to me unsubstantiated and ambiguous, like most of it really.

 

[EnacheV]

To be honest today was the first I'd heard of Motoman working with Froome and Porte. It doesn't look great does it?

I'm sure he is injecting them PED's in the back of his bike shop. He is the only one that can do that, i'm sure all teams use him, because he has experience, a low profile, and nobody can do it like him.

Probably Yates introduced him with some occasion (like that Facebook picture in front of the shop) an the guy want's some free publicity with "i worked with".

But the handful of dopeborgs will re chew this with frenzy for a couple of weeks.

 

[Benotti69]

It's looks to me unsubstantiated and ambiguous, like most of it really.

It might if we were dealing with a sport that we know is, in the pro ranks, a cesspit. In pro cycling if it walks like a duck and looks like a duck.....

Froome, Wigans and Porte's preformances all have question marks over them. We could give them the benefit of the doubt if it wasn't for Leinders, love for Lance, anti fans tirade when questioning the veracity of the performance and now working with the infamous motoman.

It sure stinks at Sky of duck poo.