petatodd

A business sponsors someone for a return, not for love. So yes, if the whole world takes up a boycott and that company falters, the aim is to make that company lose some of the gains it acquired by associating itself with cheating scum. However, as soon as it drops the association, the world buys again so the staff jobs are saved. Cause and effect? Actually economics 101.

Why childish? Remember Big Tex chose a lifetime ban from ALL IOC sports, why should he be able to carry on as if he were found to be innocent of doping?

Equally good products made by Rudy Project, adidas, New Balance, Cannondale, Spesh. All without the smell of Big Tex around them. Having said that I could use a nose job. Bob reckons I've got a duck face anyway.

I already do, have done so since this cheating scum won the TDF in 2000. Am proud to say that in that time I have not bought or owned a product made by Nike, Trek nor Oakley. Now Nissan, Radio Shack or that stupid yellow band. I did let myself down briefly by owning a set of Jones XR tyres made by Bontrager. When I fletted with them I immediately knew why. So my vote is an irrelevant YES.

Well done Chicago. And rightly so, ol Tex the WonderBoy better get used to not being allowed to do much by way of organised sport. And not being welcomed by any right minded organiser. Does he not realise he has been banned for life? Slowly but surely he will fade away. Maybe the Lance Armstrong Foundation and Livestrong can organise their own beauty parades for him to be able to continue schmoozing money from the fanboys. Just a pity that dopers still seem to be allowed to race in mountain bike events, just not officially get placed. Time for the UCI to tighten up on that loophole too or risk the IOC membership.

I must say that if his battle plan is anything like his obviously thick skin then the guys/gals who do fall for paying him money are sure going be of the ilk that they don't realise they are too poked to continue to the finish line and will finish. But probably never ride again due wasting their money. And hating the sight of a mountain bike. Pleasure in riding seems to have left this thread before my last post about 17 pages back. What is amusing is the inability to see the horse died on page 1.

Much easier to post moronic questions on the hub than RTFM. What amazes me is that we are capable of reading a computer screen with the solution but not the manual.

And in Vino, the President of Cycling. He is taking over the world. In bed with the podium girls?

What's more annoying is getting short changed on distance. How often do we enter a race that is say 100km and actually only ride about 93km? That is more irritating. Although one year in the Epic they billed a day as 1100m of ascent. When the polar/garmin showed 1100m about halfway in we all thought the rest of the day would be a rest day. Bollocks, ended on 2700m ascent in the end. That was way more irritating and painful than losing/gaining a few kms in a race!

Just waiting and watching before jumping in.....would have liked to see the allegations that made the Texan so scared he broke his own code. That cr@p about quitting being forever. Cheating scum that he is.

Karma

South African athletes performances when odds on to win gold? Caster. Or a medal? Burry

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On this basis I'm 11 years old and my mate is 19. Not true by a factor of 4 or 5. One fact is that your heart cannot beat faster than it can beat so you cannot go OVER your max heart rate. Given that the recording is right, what you see is your max. As SwissVan said, you cannot die from hitting your max and your brain will shut you down before you can do damage to yourself. You may see a succession of new highs in a race situation until you get to actual max, Saves the cash for a test. The only point of knowing your max is to train in the correct zones. No other value.

Good luck there. Share price has tanked 60% since IPO, 20% on Monday alone. Market seeing through these sharks.

Is is is or is it is? Is Fat Pat hard to understand because he speaks Irish? Or is (THAT is) it because it's hard to speak clearly with both Hein's and the Texan's arm up his arse moving his mouth?

CSA is too busy dodging the approaching Fat McQuaid bullet to be concerned about promoting riders they didn't pick for the Olympics.

If Dylan posts prices no one will visit the store?

Damn. Quoted messages of blocked hubbers don't get blocked. But at least I don't see the originals so am spared some irritation at least.

Good thread, bad thread. Is this the way the hub is going to go now?

But there is no single track, all just gravel roads with long steady climbs and long fast descents. Not comparable at all to Burger MTB, more like BurgerSanlam or Argus on gravel.

http://www.cyclismas.com/2012/07/the-legend-of-the-500/ Also USADA asked Armstrong to validate his claim of "500-600" tests. I guess it'll be in his response filed Friday night by his lawyers.

Well the most tested Armstrong is Kristin. She is the most tested US cyclist.

Read this on a UK based forum about an hour ago, just finished laughing: "the best lawyers in the US" That's probably right up there with all the other myths. Question to Radio Yerevan: "Is it true that Lance Armstrong uses the best lawyers in the US?" Radio Yerevan responds: "In principle, yes, although they aren't the best lawyers in the US, only in Austin, TX, and then only in a small suburb of Austin, TX. Also, they're not best at lawyering but at lawn bowls, and Lance Armstrong doesn't really use them, they use him. But in principle, yes."