Usually from my local bike shop, I get at least a 15% discount as a regular which makes it as cheap as online but with the benefit of real people, years of knowledge and an ex pro team mechanic. The only online retailer I have used recently is Merlin Cycles for a pair of Fizik road shoes which were incredibly cheap and the LBS couldnt match them.
Indeed. There are storm clouds over Sky however. Some of them look bad. Two new tests are being rolled out by the UCI. One for an oral drug called Aicar, the other for a gas administered drug which is nicknamed xenon. Add that to henao and tiernan locke getting popped for blood values and all the withdrawals of cyclists connected to British Cycling (including non Sky riders) this season and people are starting to smell a few rats. I hope not but his move looks like part of this...They may have been playing hard with the rules and some stuff might have got out of hand.
I doubt they are anything sinister, it's not exactly hard to identify pills, you can do it on the internet, if they were illegal it would have come out by now. Probably painkillers or similar.You seem very cynical Eckybloke?
The vial has gone to UK anti-doping. People carried pills in races years ago (well, 10 or so) I would guess that it's a liquid opiate like tramadol to drink once you get too knackered.Question for John. How much doping is there in amateur tri? I know lots of lads who are good on the road and in cyclo cross and they reckon there is a decent amount of low level doping going on in the UK from weekend warriors.