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  1. carbon29er
    Hooking up with strangers? Has Tinder come to the Hub?
  2. carbon29er
    It is. Used car prices here are crazy by world standards, bike prices are piss poor but we generally pay the same local premium for a new bike as we do for a new car.
  3. carbon29er
    Or South African used buyers stealing their rides from the guys selling?
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    The 69th Edition of La Vuelta, which will be 3181.5km long, runs from Saturday 23rd August to Sunday 14th September 2014. Anyone up for the challenge of completing half the Vuelta on a daily basis, whatever the daily stage distance is you must ride half to complete la mitad de La Vuelta. And 2 rest days. Vertical gain excluded. Days stages: stage 1 12,6 km stage 2 174,4 km stage 3 188 km stage 4 172,6 km stage 5 182,3 km stage 6 157,7 km stage 7 165,4 km stage 8 207,4 km stage 9 181 km stage 10 34,5 km stage 11 151 km stage 12 168 km stage 13 182 km stage 14 199 km stage 15 149 km stage 16 158,8 km stage 17 174 km stage 18 173,5 km stage 19 176,5 km stage 20 163,8 km stage 21 10 km
  5. carbon29er
    Bike not yet claimed. Strange one this.
  6. carbon29er
    A top end Spesh MTB found at Helshoogte on Sunday, looks like it fell off a bike carrier. Let me know if it's yours and I'll return it to you. After proper ID of your bike of course.
  7. carbon29er
    You tapering? Or riding with the kids?
  8. carbon29er
    Big difference between this and a criminal case is the onus of proof. In a criminal case the onus of proof rightly rests on the accuser. In a doping case the onus of proof rests on the accused. The protocol, as SwissVan points out at #317, is satisfied that the dope exists in his samples. It's now up to DI to explain. Attacking the lab to create doubt is not going to help.
  9. carbon29er
    Replace cheat with stupid?
  10. carbon29er
    Why indeed? Maybe the assumption that there will not be a test, maybe the desperation to get the gong, maybe oh f### who knows why guys take drugs when we all think the risk of getting caught is real? I don't think any of us will ever understand why they do it.
  11. carbon29er
    Love him or dislike him but at least David George didn't waste time with the b sample. He, uniquely amongst those with "adverse analytical findings", said yep, I did it. Other than our hubber mate who got pinged for weight adding dope at the Epic last year....
  12. carbon29er
    Apparently....but we've seem they are not.
  13. carbon29er
    4 months is about standard for this sort of stuff. David George was tested in August I seem to recall, won the Pioneer in October, test results in March.
  14. carbon29er
    Two issues here as I see it: Obtaining a TUE for Corticosteroids at Romandie Use of inhaler before climbs at Dauphine For 1 it is recommended my MPCC to withdraw the cyclist from competition for 8 days. The TUE is required because corticosteroids are on the banned list, whether in competition or not. Sky is not a member of MPCC as they state their standards are higher. In this case they used the TUE for CF to go on and win the race, beating Tony Martin in the TT despite being ill enough to require serious drugs to start on day 2. For 2 no TUE is required for up to 16 puffs a day of Salmeterol /Salbutamol or about 5 puffs of Formoterol, TUE is required for Terbutaline. The limits are set relatively low as the drugs used to treat asthma are widely used as masking agents for other banned substances. Which is why such a high percentage of world class athletes have asthma.
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    The line used by every doper since Moses....I'm astounded you cannot see how shallow your argument is, you clearly state it levels the playing field yet fail to see that in doing so the user is getting an advantage. Like ol' one ball, legal boost of testosterone....
  16. carbon29er
    What is clear from all the latest disclosures is that ordinarily healthy bikes riders will never make champions. LA with his cancer, CF with asthma, typhoid, bilharzia and chronic skin allergies, Tyler having eaten his twin..... To think most of us ride because we think it keeps us healthy.
  17. carbon29er
    If TUEs were not secret I think you would be amazed. I have seen it stated in some research that over 50% of world class athletes have asthma, compared to around 3% of the general population. The biggest advantage of most drugs used in an inhaler is not for performance enhancement but as a masking agent.
  18. carbon29er
    He clearly stated it improves HIS performance if there is a big effort. Otherwise why on earth would he take it? "PK: And it was Ventolin you used in the Dauphine? CF: Yeah, so that was on the bike before a big effort. PK: But is that using the inhaler to boost your performance? You’re taking it before a big effort, not because you . . . CF: I eat breakfast before a long race. Is that not doing something to boost my performance? If I don’t eat I won’t have any energy; if I don’t have my inhaler before a really big effort I’m probably not going to be able to breathe very well." Edit: removed triple quote
  19. carbon29er
    MC was a HUGE LA fan, slagged off anyone who alleged he doped. CF is her meal ticket, she'll do anything to keep his image as the clean one.
  20. carbon29er
    I take most of what SwissVan says about doping and his defending dopers with a huge pinch of salt. After all he was one of the last to accept that LA was a doper. Here we go again defending at every opportunity. Maybe just contrary and naive? I don't have a VO2 max that makes me an elite athlete, but I don't try justify why I am entitled to take drugs to compensate for the hand nature dealt me. I can't ride singletrack particularly fast and I fall when I do. So I try not to ride singletrack too fast. That is how life is.
  21. carbon29er
    Zero tolerance is zero tolerance. Clean is clean. Not hiding behind a whole bunch of listed drugs with a TUE. No wonder they want their TUEs kept secret.
  22. carbon29er
    I'm clean is a statement Froome has often made and desperately wants us to believe. When I read this interview 3 things really jump out at me: He is medically not a well person and requires far more drugs weekly than a normal person would. He blurs the line between ethics and rules wherever it suits him, likening taking drugs to eating breakfast The same stuff we heard from LA, only not as consistent in his story, mixing facts and dates constantly which is a huge pointer to them being made up. It certainly seems, by his own admission, that he uses drugs to compete. He just doesn't see them as doping. A bit like Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
  23. carbon29er
    The reason I've wasted gigabytes of data over the past years to listen to great commemtary. Carlton Kirby is great, pity Sean Kelly is not with him on this feed. David Harmon is another really good caller. Well done SuperSport for dropping PnP.
  24. carbon29er
    The question is: If he leaves his current team will he take the Giant name with him? I doubt there has ever been a physically bigger team on the starting line for a Grand Tour. All giants.
  25. carbon29er
    Good. I hope he/she gets roasted. Absolutely no sympathy for this cretin.
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