Wigans goes there. Cadence!

[Dr. Maserati]

Got a link.

It's rather basic information - but off course I have a link. I assume a quote is sufficient

Where is your house in Italy?
Tuscany, 30km from Florence in a small town called Quarrata.

 

[Benotti69]

It's rather basic information - but off course I have a link. I assume a quote is sufficient

Where is your house in Italy?
Tuscany, 30km from Florence in a small town called Quarrata.

Sufficient.

 

[User Guide]

Wrong. Cav lives in Essex, UK, with his girlfriend and daughter (when he's at home).



The Wiggins family home is in the North of England, Sheffield way, I think.

But, as professional cyclists, they spend a lot of time away from home. You know, racing and suchlike.

Eccleston in lancashire,trains around Pendle,Bowland a lot

 

[armchairclimber]

Eccleston in lancashire,trains around Pendle,Bowland a lot

Indeed. My neck of the woods.

 

[the big ring]

If only they could afford Wiggins' appearance fee was well as Gilbert's: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/gilbert-to-open-ghent-six-days-with-individual-pursuit-match

In fact there has been talk of Brad and Iljo teaming up at Gent.

Like I said. If only they could afford it.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/no-wiggins-at-the-ghent-six

"Wiggins suggested he wanted to ride and I contacted him but the financial picture was just too much for us. He was also a little tired after a long season," Gazet van Antwerpen reported Sercu as saying.

Wiggins is the camembert cheese in the peloton now. Cough up or GTFO. That's the reason he doped. Money: fat contracts and appearance fees.

We should call him, "Little Lance".

 

[thehog]

Looking outside Italy, Moser said that he also considers it premature to regard Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins as a new star. “He won the yellow jersey as the Tour has been designed specifically for his characteristics,” he said, claiming that his team did much of the work to set him up in the mountains, and that the difference was made in the time trials. “I do not think would be able to do it again with a different parcours. The only real great, I think, is Contador.”

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/1...gins-are-not-yet-champions.aspx#ixzz28EjytQH4

 

[RichWalk]

Looking outside Italy, Moser said that he also considers it premature to regard Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins as a new star. “He won the yellow jersey as the Tour has been designed specifically for his characteristics,” he said, claiming that his team did much of the work to set him up in the mountains, and that the difference was made in the time trials. “I do not think would be able to do it again with a different parcours. The only real great, I think, is Contador.”

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/1...gins-are-not-yet-champions.aspx#ixzz28EjytQH4

Readings his comments, there's being part of the Code, then there's being so far out there, regarding the norm of doping, that he doesnt seem to acknowledge its existance. In context Wiggins would probably agree with his comments.

 

[Markyboyzx6r]

Also I never said Sky are working with Ferrari. I said Wiggins is. Which he is. 100%.

Erm... am I reading this right? You're saying, with 100% certainty no less, that Wiggins is working with Ferrari. Care to back up that statement?

 

[Dear Wiggo]

According to Wiggins, Kerrison crunched the numbers. In LA's book, he said he crunched the numbers.

Of all the things Wiggins mentioned that can actually make the difference (gears, cadence) - to rolling resistance at least - the one thing all 3 have been fanatical about, the one thing Wiggins did not mention, is weight.

From the USADA reasoned decision:

I tackled the problem of the Tour as if I were in math class, science class,chemistry class, and nutrition class, all rolled into one. I did computer calculations that balanced my body weight and my equipment weight with the potential velocity of the bike in various stages, trying to find the equation thatwould get me to the finish line faster than anybody else. I kept careful computer graphs of my training rides, calibrating the distances, wattages, and thresholds.
91
Interestingly, the mathematical approach to training described by Armstrong in hisautobiography, and which he ascribes solely to his own personal innovation and having “geekedout,” is exactly the approach that the documents USADA has assembled indicate Michele Ferraritakes with his clients. As demonstrated by the documents capturing Ferrari’s owncommunications to Armstrong and other clients, Ferrari’s focus is unremittingly upon thenumbers, upon the calculation of power ratios and wattages and thresholds.
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[Dear Wiggo]

So, the 2009 TdF...
A doped up Lance beats Wiggo by just half a minute. Go figure.
And not only that, also this:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...cures-fourth-place-with-magnificent-ride.html

Didn't Wiggins miss a split in the peloton?

 

[JimmyFingers]

According to Wiggins, Kerrison crunched the numbers. In LA's book, he said he crunched the numbers.

Show me a sport that doesn't crunch the numbers these days. WWE doesn't count btw

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Show me a sport that doesn't crunch the numbers these days. WWE doesn't count btw

Really? You honestly still believe Kerrison crunched some numbers based on Tony Martin's cadence at the 2011 worlds, and changed Wiggins cadence and that lead him to dominate the entire 2012 tour season?

Given he was riding at 100-110rpm uphill.

Please tell me which numbers can be crunched - and how - to arrive at a cadence where rolling resistance is in any way affected.

The only way rolling resistance is affected meaningfully is by your weight. 2kg on the track with very low rolling resistance hardwood boards makes 1.5 seconds difference over 4km. That's 19seconds / 2kg over a distance of 50km. Lose 6kg (say ... a lean 75kg to 69kg) and you find yourself 56 seconds over 50km.

Now tell me how you lose 6kg of muscle and no power. Crunch those numbers for me.

 

[Tinman]

Really?

...

Now tell me how you lose 6kg of muscle and no power. Crunch those numbers for me.

Not the time and place right now. Some other distractions. The "Dear Wiggo" topic is too imptt to have buried in the "Dear Lance" melee. Timing my friend...

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Not the time and place right now. Some other distractions. The "Dear Wiggo" topic is too imptt to have buried in the "Dear Lance" melee. Timing my friend...

Agreed. I started posting but have gone back to cataloguing.

It's very frustrating that the "1999 Tour of Redemption" has happened before the 1998 Festina Affair this time around.

Michael Barry, employee of Sky is adding the little white "you can win clean at the highest level" lie even as he confesses to having to dope to simply ride the Tour at any level. So easy to slip these little tidbits in when noone's paying attention.

Le sigh.

 

[Tinman]

Le sigh.

I'm feverishly posting that UCI complicity is not in the USADA public document and for people to keep thinking about UCI and cycling tomorrow. Thinking way too short term, although can't blame them for seeking retribution, many have been here waiting for this day to come for a long time.

Some "gardening" lightbulbs switching on (if you get my drift, Ozzie garden fertilizer brand ...

 

[thehog]

Erm... am I reading this right? You're saying, with 100% certainty no less, that Wiggins is working with Ferrari. Care to back up that statement?

Yes. After today we need to reflect what's going on at Sky.

There's just too many links and similarities. Shall I list them?

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Yes. After today we need to reflect what's going on at Sky.

There's just too many links and similarities. Shall I list them?

Would save me some time Links too, if you have them please

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Curious little discussion over on Gerard Vroomen's blog: http://gerard.cc/2012/10/15/the-future/#comment-2948

I am curious to know whether alarm bells were ringing over Basso’s performance at the 2006 Giro? As the bike provider (and if i recall correctly) using that race to showcase the new Soloist Carbon, you must have been watching closely how he was dropping everyone on every uphill finish and won (if memory serves) by more than 9 minutes. Even back in 2006,
his performance stuck out like a sore thumb.

Vroomen's response:

As for his performance, it was indeed dominating but against a field that was pretty weak. The runner up was a guy who few people had even heard off before (nor after, as it turned out he was a Fuentes client too). Third was a Simoni well past his prime. So while it was a dominating performance, he was the guy who finished second in the Tour the year before racing against people who couldn’t crack the top-10 there. I mean, Sandy Casar was 6th in that Giro (I didn’t remember that of course but just looked it up, and I have to say that although the field was weak, that is truly astonishing. Anyway). So in retrospect it can be classified suspicious, but at the time it was strong but not insane. I also never saw any VAM data or anything like that to indicate it would be overly strong in an absolute sense, I think that sort of way of looking at things is more something from the last few years. BTW, I don’t buy the “attempting to dope” nonsense obviously.

Man that sounds familiar...

 

[Tinman]

Picture of Wiggo with plaster on arm at TdF. Speculation (not mine) that this may have been on a non-doping control day. Keep in mind UCI no needles policy...

twitter going off...

https://twitter.com/UCI_Overlord/status/258560135922851840/photo/1

 

[Dear Wiggo]

investigate to establish the facts...

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Imagine if there was some sort for ceiling of human-based physiological performance - particularly towards the end of a GT. Imagine if even with good doping protocols, rested or "fatigued", you couldn't bust through it for what ever reason. Imagine if these ceilings repeated themselves through out cycling's history, within contemporaneous time (= doping availability) periods.

Given flat TTs (absolute power based) are easily indicated by average speed, I found the following telling:

2008 final TT 53km - Stage 20

1. [SUI] CANCELLARA Fabian CSC 1h04'11" 80
2. [LUX] KIRCHEN Kim THR 40" 50
3. [USA] VANDE VELDE Christian TSL 44" 35
4. [GBR] MILLAR David TSL 01'16" 25
5. [RUS] MENCHOV Denis RAB 01'34" 15

2012 final TT 53.5km - Stage 19

1. [GBR] WIGGINS Bradley SKY 1h04'13" 80
2. [GBR] FROOME Chris SKY 01'16" 50
3. [ESP] SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon RAB 01'50" 35
4. [SVK] VELITS Peter OPQ 02'02" 25
5. [AUS] PORTE Richie SKY 02'25" 15

Show me a random coincidence and I'll show you guaranteed performance numbers thanks to chemicals.

#icantbelieveitsnotbutter.

 

[Ferminal]

Schumacher was first in 2008

 

[skidmark]

Schumacher was first in 2008

hahahahaha

 

[mr rendell]

Imagine if there was some sort for ceiling of human-based physiological performance - particularly towards the end of a GT. Imagine if even with good doping protocols, rested or "fatigued", you couldn't bust through it for what ever reason. Imagine if these ceilings repeated themselves through out cycling's history, within contemporaneous time (= doping availability) periods.

Given flat TTs (absolute power based) are easily indicated by average speed, I found the following telling:

2008 final TT 53km - Stage 20


2012 final TT 53.5km - Stage 19


Show me a random coincidence and I'll show you guaranteed performance numbers thanks to chemicals.

#icantbelieveitsnotbutter.

Well, stop the press. We have found the smoking gun! Well, we haven't, but Dear Wiggo has. Brilliant!!!!!

Quick, ring ASO now!!!!

You really are a legend.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Leinders wasn't at the TdF. His particular medical expertise in dealing with athletes after extreme exertion etc (team doctors do far more than administer dope) was something Sky lacked.

How do you know what his particular medical expertise is?