1) Nah Brailsford is one up on USPS with tactics. SKY are using methods not used before in managing their power.
Not used before?
You DO know the house of cards will come crumbling down eventually right? You sound like me back in 2002, when I was cussing people out for calling Lance out on doping. I also devoured all the crazy new cycling routines, new training methods, new nutrition knowledge... and then, when you try it, you see that it's all BS. But I continued on with the lie because I got too emotionally invested in it, even though there was a HUGE mountain of evidence suggesting all of US Postal were on some kind of program.
Sure, it's reminiscent of USPS sure but it is not the same and they do deserve kudos. Whether you like it or not power management has improved massively in the last 10yrs. All post Lance era. You don't want to believe that, no problem.
"Power management" has improved massively? Who said that? You mean to tell me that what happened in the past 100 years means nothing? And that a guy from a country that had ZERO Tour de Frances, until Wiggins won, all of a sudden becomes the idol of all-things-cycling. PLEASE! I'm not so much interested in "power management," but in how and where they get the extra power from.
2) WTF is it with you and thinking only SKY are doping?
I didn't say that. I said that the current state of affairs is ANYTHING but a leveled playing field. When you have a team with twice the budget of 80% of the teams, most of the best cyclists and a leader who is being literally shellacked with doping allegations... connect the dots buddy!
3) Because i have experience in that in the realm both doing and also knowing people who did it in my particular circle. You clearly don't and you ignore what the pros even say. They were even using the same doctors. I've done it so i know it.
Well, that's a major assumption on your part because... I hate to break it to you but... I've been cycling myself for about 30 years, and am an avid fan of the sport for about the same time. I read cycling magazines, watch cycling events on TV and LISTEN and READ people who are both knowledgeable and cyclists themselves: Greg LeMond, Paul Kimmage,
et cetera. In other words, I've been around and can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, that the pungent stench of doping surrounding SKY is obvious.
4) I raced track and i cycle. You have no idea what tactics, wheels, frames, positions, gearing, aerodynamics, weight, power delivery etc are for. They send these guys into wind tunnels, do you realise how expensive that is? The Brit's found a better formula and it isn't drugs. You seem to be helt bent on hating the Brittish.
That's not true, I ride my bike every day of the week. I even ride the Citibike here in NYC every single day. I don't hate the Brits, I hate your stupidity and the childish reticence to give credit to whom credit is due: US Postal. You coming up with all these idiotic new training methods, power management theories is nothing but bullshit. Without US Postal you wouldn't even know what a bicycle is.
5) Wrong. You know nothing about watts and power management.
Again, don't assume things. I do know what a watt is. I also know how to get the extra power that you need to manage the cycling style of a Froome. On a side note, by all accounts, Chris' style of riding a bicycle is so bio-mechanically OFF that it looks as though he trained on a stationary bicycle all his life, put on a major cycle of PEDs and then put on a racing bike.
6) Wrong. Ullrich stated he did everything and anthing to win and nothing was left unturned. None of the doped to the gills pros ever complained that Lance had an edge in that realm. When the whole peloton flipped even lower classed riders were doing transfusions and EPO and everything the top guys were doing. The difference was top riders could afford the EUR500k program to not get caught. Lower riders opted for a cheaper plan which came with higher risk.
That's because the other contenders had NO IDEA that Bruyneel was doing a lot of dirty work behind the scenes, having lance donate money to WADA, bribing UCI officials to try to find out who was going to get tested when,
et cetera. That I know of, no other teams had access to this valuable information. At the end of the day, if you have privileged information, you can plan transfusions and microdoses ahead of time. Kinda like what happened to Contador when he tested positive: He knew that he was going to lose the TdF on the Tourmalet that year because Andy Schleck was that much stronger than him in the previous stages, so he (allegedly) had a blood transfusion (the level of plasticizers in his blood were through the roof the day after) that contained minor traces of clenbuterol. Had he been Lance, he probably would've known ahead of time that that sample was going to be sent to the Cologne lab with the ultra sensitive equipment, and would've avoided the transfusion.
7) My circle in cycling tells me otherwise. Even in rec club racing there is a large doping problem and that's average fat joe racing at the local races. A local race here they started rocking up to test people at local club racing and one night half the field suddenly grabbed their bikes, loaded the car and drove off before they could be tested LOL.
I'm not disagreeing with you on this.
The thing is sports become much more enjoyable when you assume they are doping and it's a level field because you are just watching the best person win.
Again, this is bullshit. A fallacy. Put the other teams on a 40-million a year budget. Get them the best 4-5
domestiques and a leader who is able to go off radar in some of the most remote Kenyan villages and then we'd be onto something.
When you act like you and others who think only 'some' dope then you piss and bitch and moan about a certain individual or team or whatever and it completely ruins the sport for you.
I'm not saying that the others do not dope, quite the contrary: I am say most of the cyclists taking part in the TdF are actually on something other than their bikes. NOW, this is where it ends. What I am contending is that the TdF is a competition in which cyclists are on different programs, different PEDs, different tactics, different everything, so... as to why people would call this a "leveled playing field" is beyond me. SKY had most of the TdF team training solely to peak at the TdF. The (arguably) next best team's best
domestique, Valverde, did the Giro before going to the Tour. How is this equal? How are they leveled?
You have it in so bad for Froome and SKY you can't even accept that they are fucking smart and have made inroads to how to win that no one has done. I already said i don't like their tactics but damn, they work! Even Tinkoff says Brailsford is the best team director there is but apparently you know more than the riders and team owners lol. Just chill out man. Relax. Enjoy the sport and accept the best man/team will win at the end of the day because it's all even.
Buddy, with a 40-million budget and using US Postal's blueprint to the teeth... It's no wonder. I could be winning the TdF with that team.
God! You make me love the Fourth of July. So. Frigging. Much.
