Who is the best cyclist that has not cheated?

[Zorotheslacker]

Anybody think Jens has cheated?

Taking them one at a time - Does Jens check out?

(and Chris as above)

 

[therhodeo]

Taking them one at a time - Does Jens check out?

(and Chris as above)

This is coming from someone who likes Jens.

Good buddy of Julich.
Rode for CSC for 6 seasons.
Started right in the middle of a very dark period in cycling.

I hope he's clean but I'd hate to bet more than a days lunch that he was.

 

[Zorotheslacker]

This is coming from someone who likes Jens.

Good buddy of Julich.
Rode for CSC for 6 seasons.
Started right in the middle of a very dark period in cycling.

I hope he's clean but I'd hate to bet more than a days lunch that he was.

So far we have nobody but Horner?

 

[Bosco10]

Travis Tygart

 

[skidmark]

LeMond is like the biggest liar in cycling. Almost the fastest time trial ever without drugs, yea right.

At the risk of having people derisively, boringly and predictably making fun of me for weeks at every opportunity, I'll say it...

...it was a tailwind.

 

[sittingbison]

Did Hiero hack your account or are you just oversensitive today?

Ridiculous.

nor redunculous...launched a preemptive strike given its a troll thread

Or Hiero2 hacked my account

 

[DirtyWorks]

Travis Tygart

Tygart for sure.
Lemond most likely.
Edwig Van Hooydonck for sure.
My hope is Andy Hampsten was clean-ish when the maglia rosa dropped into his lapg at the Giro.


The sport is at minimum 50 years old now so I think maybe going back a bit further is necessary. If we are talking grand tour winners, maybe Bartali?

 

[ther00kie16]

How about Sastre?

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

I´d also say Horner. Since he never tested positive in his 419 years of racing.
Plus, he escaped the dirty era clean, that´s why he never did a T-20 in GTs prior age 38.

 

[SafeBet]

Fortunato Baliani.

 

[William H]

Well they've probably all held onto a bottle too long or drafted behind a team car at some point.

 

[sublimit]

Durian.

 

[burning]

Bradley McGee?

 

[Zorotheslacker]

I´d also say Horner. Since he never tested positive in his 419 years of racing.
Plus, he escaped the dirty era clean, that´s why he never did a T-20 in GTs prior age 38.

That could be a real good explination. If he was the only clean guy then, and all of them are now - we see the lack of PEDs in others being more significant than 6-7 years in Chris.

 

[Zorotheslacker]

Well they've probably all held onto a bottle too long or drafted behind a team car at some point.

So is cheating that way worse than cheating with PEDs?

As we see from the other thread that sites this link ( http://www.escardio.org/congresses/esc-2013/congress-reports/Pages/709-Tr-de-France.aspx ) the tour guys live longer than the general population. So hard to tell if PEDs are really damaging on the whole if they were all really using them.

 

[murali]

Travis Tygart

i am going to take this as sarcasm.

i dont think that there is anyone. probably someone young(under 25)??

 

[proffate]

phinney the younger seems both clean and talented

 

[DanielsDad]

phinney the younger seems both clean and talented

Is Taylor doing grand tours anymore?

 

[Zorotheslacker]

Is Taylor doing grand tours anymore?

He is doing world championships.

 

[blackcat]

This is coming from someone who likes Jens.

Good buddy of Julich.
Rode for CSC for 6 seasons.
Started right in the middle of a very dark period in cycling.

I hope he's clean but I'd hate to bet more than a days lunch that he was.

Jens buries his dope at Gan by the roadside

 

[crapna]

Ricco, Schumacher, Di Luca, Santanbrogio

 

[meat puppet]

froome, obviously.

 

[darwin553]

Armstrong - because Ulrich believes so

 

[djerkson]

A serious answer? Edwig van Hooydonck. Won the Tour of Flanders at an age of only 22! Wasn't able to catch up anymore in the nineties when Epo arrived in the peloton. At that time, he openly criticized Museeuw and Gewiss in an era of big Omerta. What a talent he was...A sort of Peter Sagan avant la lettre. If there's one cyclist I believe to be clean (apart from Bassons), it's him for sure.

 

[DirtyWorks]

That could be a real good explination. If he was the only clean guy then, and all of them are now - we see the lack of PEDs in others being more significant than 6-7 years in Chris.

To the bolded, haha... Right. Cleanest peloton ever. Do you realize the pro sport has been trying to sell that for at least a decade?