Here's a new twist on the drugs problem in cycling. US Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) officials have nabbed a couple of teenagers who were attempting to smuggle marijuana hidden inside the tyres of their bikes.
The teenage dope pedallers, a male and female aged 17, were detected by a USCBP sniffer dog at the border post in Douglas, Arizona.
Officials found about seven pounds of marijuana in the tyres of the couple's bikes.
Filling your tyres with plant material is a well-known emergency measure for mountain bikers stranded without a spare tube, but this form of grass is a bit pricy to use for that; the haul was worth an estimated $3,400 (£2,300).
Douglas sits in a valley at a shade over 4,000 feet above sea level, but officials did not reveal how high the smugglers got on their Mexican shopping trip.
Marijuana use in sport is controlled under the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) code. In 2013 WADA raised the threshold for a positive test from 15 to 150 nanograms per milliliter, a level that would require an athlete to be a "pretty dedicated cannabis consumer" to test positive, Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) told USA Today.
11 thoughts on “Dope pedallers nabbed smuggling marijuana in bike tyres”
Haha, good article
Haha, good article
There was a German sprinter
There was a German sprinter who got caught and killed by the NAZIs trying to smuggle currency into Switzerland in his tyres.
Albert Richter – fascinating
Albert Richter – fascinating story
Now I understand the move to
Now I understand the move to wider tyres in the pro peloton.
I remember reading about
I remember reading about people stuffing tyres with grass when in desperate need in the wake of a puncture, but this is absurd.
At last, a bike actually
At last, a bike actually worth more than £2k.
Shame the new Astana Team Model looks a bit of a clunker, don’t think it will catch on.
Shouldn’t they be smuggling
Shouldn’t they be smuggling fat bikes instead?
The ridiculousness of
The ridiculousness of marijuana being illegal in the first place. UFB…I can only hope those kids don’t get put away for a long time. Though I won’t be too hopeful with regard to Western Nazi Governments and their corporate created paper laws.
Dopers will try anything to
Dopers will try anything to win ……..
I hope the tyres were SMP+.
How is Marijuana performance
How is Marijuana performance enhancing, if it was I should have gone like the clappers in my younger days, I didn’t, still don’t.
For people who are
For people who are self-medicating for ADHD-type disorders, it is performance enhancing. They aren’t getting high, they are getting calm enough to focus on racing, which may be hard to understand for those of us who couldn’t fathom functioning properly with that combination. But, the “performance enhancement” they are getting is really only taking them back to a baseline concentration level that’s probably normal for most people. I would think that may be the main reason WADA changed the threshold.