Lucky Luke.

poor guy is running on empty

Did anyone else hear Aldirto shout 'AICARrumba!' when Richie Porte overtook him?

Looks like Contador's beef got banked last week. Tour time it will be put back and he will be on the gas again.

Bike looks hot and I quite like the paintjob, but not the integrated bottle cages. Can't see why you would want that.

today's riders are donkeys compared to the 60 hct jet engines of '96

how about a pair of sportmasks for the highest wattage? that should keep us fatties happy.

Haha, I"m going to go eat some more pies then. Can we do this for all league races too? Anyone under 90kg's gets some lead duct taped to their bikes.

Great vid, thanks for that

“While today is a historic day for clean sport, the path to true reform begins only when the overhanging wall above the Mellow Johnny’s counter is cleaned of Armstrong’s tainted achievements.” http://www.cyclismas.com/2012/10/cycling-waits-on-mellow-johnnys-to-ratify-armstrong-decision/

exactly, mellow johnnies, rubber johnnies, nobody gives a **** these days. cutting his nose off to spite his face with the DA group there.

Damn right, Fordyce's face has character - he earned those lines - Sly's face looks like an overripe grapefruit.

I'm almost certain Big H's lawyer will recommend less time hubbing? anything else would surely be a waste of legal fees

Riding EA90's on my 29'er. I am currently 93kg, have broken a ton of stuff over the years, but never any of my Easton stuff. Things like the EC90 SL fork I had for about four years - lightest fork available - took an absolute hammering, tons of mileage and no hint of failure whatsoever. The EA90 XC wheels are quite new though, lets see how they go, but I'm feeling optimistic.

I decided the sane course of action was to flog my CS500 for whatever I could get and buy a garmin

Apparently Polar have an upgrade in the works - inspired by the ZX Spectrum - in future your rides will be recorded on to a cassette tape and you play them back to your machine with a USB tape recorder.

No 'roids here, just 1000,000 foetuses worth of growth hormone coursing through his 70-year-old face - sis man! http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2007/03/13/stallone192.jpg

ja, depression and too much devil's dandruff. If you want an example of how roids can put you in the ground look no further than the NFL's Lyle Alzado - vrek from a brain tumour in '92 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_Alzado#Steroid_use_and_death

I've podiumed at WP and quite a few league races and nobody ever bothered to test me. Maybe I need to pack on 20kg of upper body muscle and bring up the rear at some mtb stage races before I will get the tester's attenion

^^ This - not completely out but a little further under the rug. Thanks for the detailed back story. All the best with the media circus.

Your post echoes my feelings on the matter. Thanks. In civilised countries when cyclists die due to driver negligence there is zero debate about how can we ride our bikes better, whether this is needed or not. It is not a relevant point to be discussed in this context where culpable homicide on the part of the driver is the real issue. Where did you hear that statement from Golden Arrow, presumably about the cyclist killed outside my house here in Kalk Bay? I would like to follow up on that with them. I haven't heard what the status of that case is since it happened and the driver was suspended. And now we've had another Golden Arrow fatality.

Perhaps a bit of tactical nous from the Epic testing team. "Guys, lets pop this gym bunny backmarker with a 'random' sample, and we can send a message to the whole field that we are serious about this drugs thing".

Sucks to be Barry, although if that is a genuine profile pic, it doesn't look like his stanozolol came in bioplus format. Still does seem like a waste of cash to test guys who are not even in the top 100.

No issue with you personally bud, just struggling to follow your logic. I have to ask again, how does bellville velodrome help us to remain safe? What is this thread about exactly?

I don't understand what a tiny alleycat race held once a month on a Sunday afternoon has to do with the tragedies we face every week with cyclists being mowed down by homicidal, drunken, stupid, negligent car drivers, who nearly always get away with it. Lets get some perspective here. Or are you saying that cyclists ride so badly that it's somehow understandable that drivers decide to run them down?

Ja, but this way is much better, because he gets to tell us all how he was trackstanding, slipping a truck at 60, plus the added bonus of hooking up with all the other undercover bike-cops for yet another 700 page love-in. Thread number 999000000, another classic in the familiar genre, where lawless cyclists are solely responsible for the big pile of corpses they leave in their wake. Where riders whose ignorant flouting of bylaws was so objectionable to the motoring public that they briefly switched focus, from smashing the f*ck out of each other, to pointing their blood-spattered bumpers at us lycra wearing light jumping bastards. Guys, please be nicer on the roads so that the cars stop killing us. Wave at each other, stop frequently, and thank every car for not squashing you. Our lives depend upon it.