insideman

It is what it is? Do you not get the bigger picture? Absa is promoting these riders as if this is a positive thing, something to be celebrated. Can you even begin to imagine how many blood bags Hincapie took lying next to Lance on the US Postal bus? Probably not. Hincapie stands for everything that is and was wrong with cycling. To promote him as a hero is utterly laughable.

Pieter Seyffert - ex roadie doper now looking for greener pastures on the mountain bike. What gets me is that guys like Seyffert ruined the local pro road scene with their misdeeds and despicable behavior and now feel it OK to jump ship to mountain biking, no doubt to get hold of some more sponsorship money. I really think that life time bans should be standard in our sport.

This is absolutely ridiculous! The Absa Cape Epic is turning into such a cesspool for washed up rugby players and now former dopers. “We are extremely excited to welcome two of the world’s leading cyclists into our Absa Pride family and I know that the support and camaraderie they will experience during their first tilt at the Absa Cape Epic will inspire them to ‘Conquer As One’,” said David Wingfield, Head of Marketing: Barclays Africa David, are you smoking your socks? Hincapie should be banned from setting foot within 50km of a cycling race. We should leave these guys where they belong - in the past.

So you mean the amphetamine, morphine, belgian pot era?

It seems CWC are facing their own moral dilemma right now...

I'm just a little bit vague as to the specifics of your pledge that your propose the other teams sign. I would like you to clear up one main issue - do you propose that next season no rider who has ever tested positive be granted a contract with any SA pro team? Or that any rider who tests positive from next season onwards will be granted a contract in future? I fully support your initiative to not hire any previous dopers on your team. In my personal opinion a team like Bonitas for example represents a complete mismatched sense of ethics. Malcolm Lange from my personal experience has always been someone completely against doping, yet his team contains two convicted dopers. How does he justify this decision? Doping is absolutely cheating, regardless of a confession or admittance of guilt the sin remains the same - every single clean cyclist is handicapped and affected by the actions of the crooked few.

Don't change your mind half way through your post, decide what you want to promote and stick with it. Otherwise this just reeks of a cheap publicity stunt, pretty much like the Skins lawsuit against the UCI.

I believe David's father is a psychiatrist.

Taxi 1 - Cyclist 0

Try mountain top finish, finished at an observatory at 1100m, started the day at 100m. Some sections where at 15-20% going up the climb. Rabie rode great today.

Good luck keeping that bar tape so shiny white

the sitting behind the guy/-s is Joanna Hotchkiss. She's leading the mixed category with her fiancee the flemish lion. she also came 9th in the elite ladies race in the argus - quite a development she's gone through in the past month and I reckon she'll keep on improving! Yip, indeed she has and will, Jamie Ball has recently started training her, he does training programs and the like, seems to be working for Joanna!

Cyclefit is another good one to try, based in emmarentia. Check out www.cyclefit.co.za Specialise in bike setups so probably one of the better places to try!insideman2007-09-19 16:38:25

When impey's fork snapped at gauteng champs? Was that NOT a safety issue? insideman2007-07-15 17:31:23