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The racing thing is tricky - Meurant is a a great organiser, if only a substantial sponsor could be found so he could do a proper series of elite/age-group races through the year. It would raise the standard, and hopefully give you talented guys some income. Agreed on the signage stuff, there could be a better effort there.

If you want prize money, go to a race not a funride. Simple. PPA does, and has done, an incredible amount for cycling, and the vast majority of its members get great value from their fees. Their expectations are more aligned, possibly, with the associations goals. Elites - road and mountain - are a pain in the $%^& for the PPA, they form a small portion of the membership but make, by far, the most noise. The road leagues threaten the very existance of the funride system on a regular basis with their bad behaviour. PPA does NOT owe you racing, just be thankful there are events that you can ride. If you want to earn money from racing, unfortunately the PPA is not the bunch to look to. The fact that nobody else is putting on races is not their fault!

Not Tyler's brother?

I don't think you should be making fun of this legend. Have you won as many F1 titles as he has? Then you can speak...

Hahaha indeed - as a total magaholic - my girlfriend will testify as to the growing piles every month that are being kept for 'research' I get so grumpy with the local magazines. Last month Bicycling told us Lance had won 9 tours - I wonder if he knows that. Whoever let that through needs to be demoted to burger flipper. To the latest dog's breakfast: Slap a pretty boy on the cover - who cares if he is actually a cyclist or not (he looks in a lot of pain for a sprint in granny gear, not that you can tell the picture is so out of focus) - and a tempting Tour de France promise on the cover, which turns out to be dead boring(quotes nicked off Cyclingnews.com and arb pics). And I tried hard to read Dr Swart's article on power meters, but it looked like somebody's dog threw up on it. Top Cycle screwed it up royally. The first edition should knock the socks off the reader. News that is two months old, nicked features on climbs from a Tour that has been and gone, social commentary on the soccer world cup (I thought it was a cycling mag?), all in all another crap effort in a market littered with average and worse magazines. Disappointing from both. Ride plods along merrily, never bad, never wonderful. At least the guys and girls who put it together ride bikes, I am not sure the people at Bicycling or Top Cycle do? I may be wrong on both counts, if they do it doesn't show in the product, at all. Mountain Biker - thinner every month/two months/year (how often does it come out anyway?) But there seems to be some enthusiasm, which I like. Just more of it, please. Tread is pick of the bunch now. Nice local writing and photography, reviews that seem to tell the truth, not what the advertisers want to hear. If there is something k*k, then it needs to be printed - look at the popularity of top gear, who don't give a sh*t about telling Mercedes the build quality on their cars is bad. Sometimes they can be a little too local-is-lekker, and the paper they use is horrible. I think there are more lurking - GoMulti - aka Adventure Racing KZN. Some triathlon mags. Actually, not much at all. And we have such a strong cycling scene here. I guess that is what disappoints me most about Top Cycle - I think we are crying out for a decent mag, and this could have been it.

... then why the hell does he need a spin doctor. Surely you can only tell the truth, um, truthfully? If it really is the truth, you don't need to worry about saying it wrong? LA hires spin doctor

I wonder if this was daddy: Christopher Dingle, presenter of Midweek, was the first person to say the "f" word on television. While recording, he became agitated and blurted out the words "Oh f***!". Remember it like yesterday... funny.

"I call upon the courageous Greg to name any name." Hahaha. Just wait until he does.

Nah, Fand doesn't do druggies

Are you serious? Greg Lemond is the catalyst who might finally sort out the doping problem in this sport. Between him and Landis, they have managed to cast enough doubt on LA's performances, and those of the rest of the pro peloton, for it to be investigated properly for the first time. By an organization that has no interest whatsoever in the future of cyclists, cycling, or its back pocket. All the feds are after is the truth. Unfortunately, I think the truth is going to hurt big time, and my hat goes off to Lemond for being willing to put his name on the line, and potentially destroy a sport that still is his passion. That takes balls. You can't want for the doping problem to be fixed without being willing to take the pain that comes with it.

brilliant to post on facebook/not to post on facebook

haha George Carlin - legend

Lemme guess - the traffic orifice's name was Lance, and that is how this all started?

Talk about breaking unwritten rules...

No, not LA: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cannondale-factory-racing-drop-paulissen-after-positive-test

No. On the hub you needle other people.

It may have been Colonel, looking for evidence. Dr Fuentes helps the Spanish football team too.

Me too.

Like Raleigh, you mean?

I think he is calling you an ace-hole.

And when AC wins seven in a row, he better do it with one nut and bags of chips on each shoulder, or it just won't be as good as Lance's effort.

Jaco - can you point us at links to the ban in Australia, and Denmark's effort?

Not the Bentley Supersport? You can get a bike in the back.

Contador is 28 years old. When LA got his first Tour win when he was 28: AC is already two ahead... First to win nine Tours?

You sure he didn't say he only uses his left one?