The cycling thread

[Jon Crofts]

A great win for Jolly Naughty Wiggins, now onto the hour record some time next year apparently. 

[lovejoy]

A great win for Jolly Naughty Wiggins, now onto the hour record some time next year apparently. 

I think he may retire from road racing at some point soon, although he may want one more crack at Roubaix. he seems to change his mind in his public statements very often!

[N'Rexy]

Roubaix might well be his last road race. His programme is all about the spring then it's off to the track. He has to find a way to wear the rainbow jersey at some point though. Got my invite to the TdF route presentation today! Next season is almost here!

[lovejoy]

I bet there's some decent hills to give Pinot a fair crack.

[Jon Crofts]

Saw an interview on road.cc post the Worlds TT.  He had a few well aimed clever digs at the Kenyan.

[fredm]

Been announced that there is to be a yearly Tour of Yorkshire. Next year will be from 1st to 3rd May. Will be a different route each year.

[lovejoy]

Saw an interview on road.cc post the Worlds TT.  He had a few well aimed clever digs at the Kenyan.

The Belgian had a dig at the Kenyan? For being a better stage race rider than him?

[Jon Crofts]

In the main for being Olympic champion, World champion, National champion & all his track Golds at the Olympics over the years.

[lovejoy]

But why pick on Froome?

[Dave Cooper please]

Mr Crofts has a real downer on Froome, check back through this thread for evidence.
I have a feeling (just a hunch) that he doesn't believe Froome is racing entirely legally.

[Jon Crofts]

Mr Crofts has a real downer on Froome, check back through this thread for evidence.
I have a feeling (just a hunch) that he doesn't believe Froome is racing entirely legally.

Uh oh.  Rumbled.

[lovejoy]

Mr Crofts has a real downer on Froome, check back through this thread for evidence.
I have a feeling (just a hunch) that he doesn't believe Froome is racing entirely legally.

Uh oh.  Rumbled.

One word, Contador?

[Jon Crofts]

Mr Crofts has a real downer on Froome, check back through this thread for evidence.
I have a feeling (just a hunch) that he doesn't believe Froome is racing entirely legally.

Uh oh.  Rumbled.

One word, Contador?

Well obviously Contador.  I don't think Froome is still on the juice, but like many others think he probably was for a time.

Anyway, this thread was meant for our own cycling exploits rather than discussing the merits of EPO which apparently you can still buy over the counter in Switzerland.

[N'Rexy]

Reviving this as a massive doping scandal has just broken. The Padua investigations have exposed at least 38 world tour riders still working with Dr Ferrari. He was Lance Armstrong dr and is banned for life from working in cycling. Astana (Nibalis team) are up to their necks in it. This is very big news in cycling at the moment. Back to the old days I fear.

[Jon Crofts]

Full list of riders:

Leonardo Bertagnolli, Simone Boifava, Diego Caccia, Enrico Franzoi, Marco Frapporti, Omar Lombardi, Fabrizio Macchi, Marco Marcato, Andrea Masciarelli, Francesco Masciarelli, Simone Masciarelli, Daniele Pietropolli, Morris Possoni, Filippo Pozzato, Alessandro Proni, Michele Scarponi, Francesco Tizza, Giovanni Visconti, Ricardo Pichetta, Andrea Vaccher, Mauricio Ardila, Volodymyr Bileka, Borut Bozic, Maxim Gourov, Vladimir Gusev, Valentin Iglinskiy, Sergei Ivanov, Vladimir Karpets, Aleksander Kolobnev, Dimitri Kozontchuk, Roman Kreuziger, Denis Menchov (Rus), Evgeni Petrov, Yaroslav Popovych, José Joaquin Rojas (Spa), Ivan Rovny, Egor Silin, Alexandre Vinokourov.