[Other Sport] Cycling geeks

[Stat Brother]

Was it as impressive as a Hurricane!?

I'm so bad I thought I was riding into a hurricane YESTERDAY!!

 

[Stat Brother]

As I often repeat ad infinitum wankers also ride bikes as well as other things. This is astonishing, and those responsible should and can be done by law.

I have never seen this kind of behaviour EVER when out on rides in Sussex. All our club rides we signal horse ahead, slow to a crawl and ensure no gear changing etc. and we gently chat or say hello so the horse can hear we're coming without getting spooked even going passed slow (which can happen if you bike is silent).

I bet each of those cyclists also drive a car like an utter prat as well. Hope they get named and shamed, and if they were competing in anyway, have their race licenses revoked.

Yesterday one of the many riders I passed was on the phone while on her horse, there's gotta be a law against that.

 

[Stat Brother]

I had a lovely little victory tonight.

As I drove into the supermarket carpark I saw a white van door open and the fella inside throw his now empty drink bottle under his van.
Naturally being a supermarket there were bins everywhere.

I then happen to notice the parking space next to him, and between him and the the exit was free, along with 100 others.

So I choose that space and made an absolute dogs dinner of reversing in, an 8 point turn minimum.

When I finally got out of my car he gave me a look, to which I replied:-

'Cor you did have enough time to put that bottle in the bin'.

 

[Stat Brother]

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Off to work now...

 

[Motogull]

ITV4 tomorrow 3pm coverage of our nationals.

I'm still a Doyle by the way. Having raised my saddle it was far from straight.

 

[1066familyman]

Today has to be the hottest weather I've ever ridden in. My Bryton was showing 32c for large parts of it!

My attempt to finally ride all year round might end up in failure if July keeps this madness up

 

[Motogull]

Today has to be the hottest weather I've ever ridden in. My Bryton was showing 32c for large parts of it!

My attempt to finally ride all year round might end up in failure if July keeps this madness up

What time do you ride?

 

[Stat Brother]

I thought 32 was the width h of his tyres.

 

[1066familyman]

What time do you ride?

Left not too long after 7am. Nearly 70 miles though and cafe stop, plus lots of regroups as it was a fairly large club ride.

I thought 32 was the width h of his tyres.

Boo hiss!!!

 

[Stat Brother]

Left not too long after 7am. Nearly 70 miles though and cafe stop, plus lots of regroups as it was a fairly large club ride.



Boo hiss!!!

Feck that, if you can't keep up ride on your own.

Although I did need a cake stop on Wednesday, as my only other option would be move to Amberley, because I wasn't getting back over the Downs.

 

[Motogull]

Left not too long after 7am. Nearly 70 miles though and cafe stop, plus lots of regroups as it was a fairly large club ride!

Blimey. I had a 'chilly' 45 minutes or so at 7am yesterday. My only unforced stop was to combine the dregs of both bottles into one. I bollocksed that up anyway.

 

[Stat Brother]

Tour de France 2018: Chris Froome ‘banned’ by organisers in bid to prevent ‘damage to the image’ of the race

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...-sky-can-he-compete-latest-news-a8425301.html

 

[Bold Seagull]

Tour de France 2018: Chris Froome ‘banned’ by organisers in bid to prevent ‘damage to the image’ of the race

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...-sky-can-he-compete-latest-news-a8425301.html

The whole thing is slightly ridiculous. Last year Froome was probably the most tested rider, tested throughout Le Tour and Vuelta. Every test negative apart from 1 day where he has either had too many puffs on an inhaler, or for some reason his physiology has skewed the result. Either way it is an asthma inhaler FFS.

Now you get Bernard Hinault saying the other riders should strike to protect him and Merckx being the only 5 times winners – not forgetting Hinault refused to even give a doping test in '82, and Merckx failed 3 doping tests himself – Froome actually hasn't failed a test!! Cycling does love to revel in hypocrisy.

Even though the man running alongside Froome with a giant Ventilin Inhaler was funny in the Giro, it does raise a pertinent point, that inhaler is recognised BECAUSE millions of kids and adults take it everyday all over the world to alleviate their symptoms of asthma – every sports day in Britain this summer will have dopers in it!!!

This is cycling taking the opportunity to slap Sky down a peg or two, and perhaps they need it, but this is an adverse test result to a common asthma drug, it shouldn't even be called doping.

 

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Froome found not guilty!

Thank God for that -- I guess it will still follow him around, but the last thing cycling needed was another doping scandal. We'll leave that to athletics (and dare I say football...).

 

[banjo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/44679483

BBC reporting cleared of cheating.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Froome found not guilty!

Thank God for that -- I guess it will still follow him around, but the last thing cycling needed was another doping scandal. We'll leave that to athletics (and dare I say football...).

Given it is not guilty, I don't think there is any requirement to publish any findings, reports or results. Will be interesting to see if Froome and Sky volunteer this or not.

 

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Given it is not guilty, I don't think there is any requirement to publish any findings, reports or results. Will be interesting to see if Froome and Sky volunteer this or not.

The UCI have posted a fairly lengthy explanation of the process, I suspect that is all we'll get.

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) confirms that the anti-doping proceedings involving Mr Christopher Froome have now been closed.

On 20 September 2017, Mr Froome was notified that a sample collected during the Vuelta a España on 7 September 2017 was reported to contain a concentration of salbutamol in excess of 1000ng/ml.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Prohibited List provides that inhaled salbutamol is permitted subject to a maximum dose of 1600 micrograms over 24 hours, not to exceed 800 micrograms every 12 hours (the permitted use), and that a concentration in excess of 1000 ng/ml is an abnormal finding which is presumed not to be the result of a permitted use. The WADA Prohibited List further provides that the athlete can establish that his/her abnormal result was the consequence of a permitted use, in which case it will not be considered as an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF).


The UCI instigated disciplinary proceedings in accordance with the UCI Anti-Doping Rules (ADR), during which Mr Froome exercised his right to prove that his abnormal result was the consequence of a permitted use. The proceedings started with an evidentiary phase, with the UCI and Mr Froome agreeing that the UCI Anti-Doping Tribunal would decide whether certain information could be provided to Mr Froome in preparing his defence. The UCI already sought WADA’s advice at that stage, during which a significant number of expert and scientific reports were submitted on behalf of Mr Froome.

After the evidentiary phase, Mr Froome requested additional information from WADA about the salbutamol regime. Following receipt of information from WADA, Mr Froome then filed his explanation for the abnormal result on 4 June 2018, together with significant additional expert evidence.

The UCI has considered all the relevant evidence in detail (in consultation with its own experts and experts from WADA). On 28 June 2018, WADA informed the UCI that it would accept, based on the specific facts of the case, that Mr Froome’s sample results do not constitute an AAF. In light of WADA’s unparalleled access to information and authorship of the salbutamol regime, the UCI has decided, based on WADA’s position, to close the proceedings against Mr Froome.

Whilst the UCI would have obviously preferred the proceedings to have been finalised earlier in the season, it had to ensure that Mr Froome had a fair process, as it would have done with any other rider, and that the correct decision was issued. Having received WADA’s position on 28 June 2018, the UCI prepared and issued its formal reasoned decision as quickly as possible in the circumstances.

The UCI understands that there will be significant discussion of this decision, but wishes to reassure all those involved in or interested in cycling that its decision is based on expert opinions, WADA’s advice, and a full assessment of the facts of the case. The UCI hopes that the cycling world can now turn its focus to, and enjoy, the upcoming races on the cycling calendar.

 

[Stat Brother]

The whole thing is slightly ridiculous. Last year Froome was probably the most tested rider, tested throughout Le Tour and Vuelta. Every test negative apart from 1 day where he has either had too many puffs on an inhaler, or for some reason his physiology has skewed the result. Either way it is an asthma inhaler FFS.

Now you get Bernard Hinault saying the other riders should strike to protect him and Merckx being the only 5 times winners – not forgetting Hinault refused to even give a doping test in '82, and Merckx failed 3 doping tests himself – Froome actually hasn't failed a test!! Cycling does love to revel in hypocrisy.

Even though the man running alongside Froome with a giant Ventilin Inhaler was funny in the Giro, it does raise a pertinent point, that inhaler is recognised BECAUSE millions of kids and adults take it everyday all over the world to alleviate their symptoms of asthma – every sports day in Britain this summer will have dopers in it!!!

This is cycling taking the opportunity to slap Sky down a peg or two, and perhaps they need it, but this is an adverse test result to a common asthma drug, it shouldn't even be called doping.

Before the breaking news I was going to point out this was more a case of 'hey world we're about to start'.

But the absolute hypocrisy of that action was mind blowing.

'We sentence you, Chris Froome, based entirely on the crimes committed by all those that went before you, to the toughest sanction we can impose'.

 

[1066familyman]

The whole thing is slightly ridiculous. Last year Froome was probably the most tested rider, tested throughout Le Tour and Vuelta. Every test negative apart from 1 day where he has either had too many puffs on an inhaler, or for some reason his physiology has skewed the result. Either way it is an asthma inhaler FFS.

Now you get Bernard Hinault saying the other riders should strike to protect him and Merckx being the only 5 times winners – not forgetting Hinault refused to even give a doping test in '82, and Merckx failed 3 doping tests himself – Froome actually hasn't failed a test!! Cycling does love to revel in hypocrisy.

Even though the man running alongside Froome with a giant Ventilin Inhaler was funny in the Giro, it does raise a pertinent point, that inhaler is recognised BECAUSE millions of kids and adults take it everyday all over the world to alleviate their symptoms of asthma – every sports day in Britain this summer will have dopers in it!!!

This is cycling taking the opportunity to slap Sky down a peg or two, and perhaps they need it, but this is an adverse test result to a common asthma drug, it shouldn't even be called doping.

Lance Armstrong never failed a test either (except that one which he wasn't punished for anyway). Just saying.

 

[Stat Brother]

Lance Armstrong never failed a test either (except that one which he wasn't punished for anyway). Just saying.

How surprised were you when that truth finally came out about Lance.
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How surprised would you be if a similar truth were to come out about CF?