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Hah! Yeah, I love the idea of
Hah! Yeah, I love the idea of creeping them out with some apple psychological warfare.I’ve calmed down now so I’m not really interested in kicking a dent in the car door or escalating it to anything physical anymore.
I know there are bigger problems in the world, but I genuinely feel if I don’t do something they will just continue thinking its a funny, victimless passtime and keep doing it. Except next time it might hit me in the head. Or next time it might be my girlfriend they target and she may not be as lucky as me in managing to stay upright. Or next time they might not have an apple to hand, so hey-ho, “I’ll lean out and push the cyclist into the bank, saw it on youtube once, fucking hilarious etc etc”.
Cielo Rosso? New to me, it
Cielo Rosso? New to me, it looks lovely. Is that a custom build?Yeah, thanks but I had found
Yeah, thanks but I had found that place on google myself. I’m really after a recommendation for a good charity, I don’t just want to give them to a place that sells them on.The problem is to get the bikes to Africa I have to drop off in London, which I’m not prepared to do.
Yep, I get it too – the
Yep, I get it too – the stylesheets don’t load. Refreshing, clearing cache etc don’t seem to fix it. I just give up now and go somewhere else, then try again in a couple of hours and it usually works.And yes, now the latest comments/forum sidebars only appear on the homepage which is also frustrating. They’ve probably done it for technical reasons as the site is slow and buggy but its a terrible UX design decision.
No, that’s not what I’m
No, that’s not what I’m saying. There are countless athletes at the top of their game not doping, I would actually say the majority of athletes at their absolute pinnacle are not doping. I’m saying that a small minority of athletes in any given distance event are doping – and those are the world beaters, the absolute elite of the elite, the top 20%.Any successful doping program is tailored towards that athlete’s specific biochemistry, weaknesses, training program, anticipated anti-doping controls etc. My argument is about sport in general; It’s pointless for me to say what I think one specific person is on as it would be 100% wrong. It’s like me asking you what you think athlete Y’s natural nutritional intake is, or what athlete X’s training program is. It doesn’t prove anything and steers the argument away from that which I am making.
daddyELVIS wrote:…but
…but they’re all doped to some extent – some full-on, some using TUE grey areas (i.e. Legal doping), so no completely clean rider will have ‘enough’ to pull at the front of a top-class peloton. It’s the same in most top-class sports, and horse-racing too! It’s the way it is – it’s an industry! – developed over many generations to where it is today. How you reverse it, who knows? Certainly not by banning the odd athlete here and there, and not by making one huge athlete a scape-goat and announcing a ‘new clean era’ for everything tha came after! It’s a very complex issue, and a lot would need to come out in the open to even start to address it – but, anyone with a modicum of common-sense knows that top-level sport cannot be made up of athletes with a genuine need for asthma & thyroid drugs. What happened to all the athletes with 100% health? – come on, this can’t get better until we all stop pretending!Yep. In my opinion the science behind identifying athletes with the optimal physiology along with training methods and nutrition has created a plateau for endurance sports; any athlete that has the optimum genetics, discipline and desire to train correctly, and access to a team of dieticians, physios, phycologists etc will reach that plateau and they’ll all be within 1% (maybe 2% at a stretch) of each other on any given day.
So if you’ve reached this plateau yet the winners are consistently 5% ahead of you, and you want to win that gold medal or yellow jersey, what are you going to do? Of course you’re going to dope, its the only logical choice – you know those people beating your arse are doing it and your short career and earning potential rely solely on winning that gold medal, on being a star. They’re not bad people, its the only thing standing between a successful career or just making up the numbers. In that position I’d do it – theres zero chance of being caught if you do it properly and the rewards are astronomical.
fukawitribe wrote:So, just to
So, just to really nail this down, you’re saying that 20% of the top professional cyclists are using EPO or HGH ?Yes, that’s correct. But I’m not having a pop at cycling specifically – I’m saying that to be in the top 20% of athletes in the world at any given distance sport, to be within the absolute elite of the elite, you have to be on the gear.
“I believe that it is
“I believe that it is currently difficult to be among the top five in the world in any of the distance events without using EPO or human growth hormone. While some of the top athletes may be clean, so many athletes are running so fast that their performances are suspect”Alberto Salazar, 2001
Now, 15 years later, I believe it would be accurate to change “difficult” to “impossible” and “the top 5” to “the top 20%” and “distance events” to “any sport”.
If that was proven I think a
If that was proven I think a lot of the ‘casual’ sports watchers just wouldn’t bother anymore. I stopped following pro cycling years ago because I think its just like WWF – make believe bullshit that only 12 year old boys should take seriously.But what will ensure that pro sport survives is the fact that the average sports ‘fan’ is a moron. Do you really think a Liverpool fan would get the LFC tattoo removed from their chest, stop buying season tickets, team kit, sky subscriptions etc if it was proven most premiership players were systematically doping? They wouldn’t give a shit. Its as much about the way of life for them as the 90 minutes on a Saturday afternoon. What else are they going to do, read a book instead?
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Post removed due to legal advice.They’re only catching 2% of
They’re only catching 2% of dopers. That blows my mind.untakenname wrote:I honestly
I honestly didn’t expect these types of replies, if I was to wait at every set of lights then I’d be quicker on a motorbike, it must add at least 10-15 minutes to my commute in rush hour.Yeah, as it does to every other road user. I don’t understand why you think your 10-15 minutes more valuable than anyone else’s? Are you HRH Queen Elizabeth in disguise?
This is the equivalent of
This is the equivalent of someone arriving at a red light in their Ford Escort, slamming it into neutral, jumping out and pushing it through the intersection. Totally out of order.I had that problem with the
I had that problem with the arch area too. I ended up having to push it out with the rounded end of a big screwdriver. Took a few goes to get it right.pants wrote:When the last
When the last Astana scandal broke out I said to myself I will no longer follow pro cycling if the team can carry on riding, and now here they are. Fuck it, everyone should just go out for rides and watch old videos of Eddy Merckx.Agreed. Speaking of which, saw A Sunday in Hell for the first time the other day:
