saw some dick cycling the esplande speers point. sif right of way will stop a squashed head.
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saw some dick cycling the esplande speers point. sif right of way will stop a squashed head.
Part of Bradley Wiggins team that won the TDF has been now caught out. Anyone still think Wiggins was clean??Quote:
Australian cycling veteran Michael Rogers says his positive test to the banned substance clenbuterol might have been caused by contaminated food.
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The 33-year-old, a three-time world time trial champion and 2004 Olympic bronze medallist, provided the positive urine sample during his victory at the Japan Cup road race on October 20.
Rogers has been provisionally suspended by the UCI, the sport’s governing body.
But the Saxo-Tinkoff rider denies deliberate doping, fearing a contaminated food caused him to fail the test.
The UCI said Rogers’s provisional suspension would remain in force until a hearing convened by Cycling Australia determines whether he has committed an anti-doping rule violation.
Rogers competed in China a week before his failed test and the UCI and WADA have warned athletes in the past to exercise caution in the country due to the use of illicit use of the growth promoter in livestock there.
‘‘Michael Rogers immediately informed Saxo-Tinkoff’s management about the notification from the UCI,’’ the cycling team said in a statement on Wednesday.
‘‘The Australian explained to the team management that he never ingested the substance knowingly nor deliberately and fears that the adverse analytical finding origins [came] from a contaminated food source.’’
Rogers has the right to request and attend the analysis of his B sample.
A positive test to clenbuterol, which helps build muscle and burn fat, cost Alberto Contador his victory at the 2010 Tour de France.
Contador blamed contaminated meat for the positive test, but WADA rejected the Spaniard’s claim.
Rogers joined Contador at Team Saxo-Tinkoff last season from Team Sky.
Rogers, a veteran of nine Tour de France campaigns, left Sky after being named in evidence in the Lance Armstrong case as working with the American’s favoured doctor Michele Ferrari.
The Australian won three consecutive world time trial championships from 2003, the first of which was awarded to him after David Millar confessed to taking EPO.
Rogers was upgraded to bronze in the time trial at the 2004 Athens Olympics when American Tyler Hamilton was disqualified.
The Australian finished this season on a high by holding off a strong group of chasers to claim victory over 151.3kilometres at the Japan Cup in Utsunomiya.
The UCI said the decision to suspend Rogers was made in response to a report from the WADA-accredited laboratory in Tokyo indicating an ‘‘adverse analytical finding of clenbuterol’’ in a urine sample collected during the event.
The UCI announced Belgian rider Jonathan Breyne had also been suspended for supplying a positive test for clenbuterol at the Tour of Taihu Lake in China on November 5.
The positive tests come as a fresh blow to the credibility of the sport, which many cyclists insist has largely left behind its troubled past.
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‘‘The state of the sport generally is fantastic,’’ Australian ace Simon Gerrans said recently.
‘‘I’m really confident the sport is being raced clean now on a very large scale.’’
Former Australian cyclists Stuart O’Grady and Matt White this year admitted to doping during their careers but, unlike Rogers, they did not test positive in competition. AAP
waiting for the b sample yuh
wot????????????
is this legit?
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/199q.../ku-xlarge.gif
has anyone ever seen a MAMIL with any decent sort of pedalling technique?
knees out wide, swaying all over the shop, being fat, torso going up and down like they're climbing when they're going down a gentle slope
haha i know right, they all climb like gronks as well, horrible body position, too fat to get on the front wheel
i assume this will be me one day
how good was yesterday's road nationals btw
gerrans, evans, porte on the top step (y)
Great race but Gerrans was always going to win if it was a bunch. Evans and Porte really had to drop him and that wasn't going to happen without the assistance of a team.
yeah no doubt, still good to see the big guns coming back and making it a serious event.
brutal race, only 41 finishers.
Thinking of getting a new bike.
Have a short ride to work, and wanna ride round with the kids.
Are Cell any good?
Thinking of their single speed for $200 (like the simplicity of them and the extra work I'll need to do getting home up a long steady hill) or pretending I live in surry hills and going for a custom coloured atrocity.
Not keen to spend too much 200-400.
http://www.cellbikes.com.au/custom/b...-bikes.html?v8
Advice?
as i said on the twitters they're not a bad pushy at all - just the wheels might need changing out if you ride it a lot - ask the cell dudes and they'll probably say the same and get you a stronger wheelset - look at this - http://www.cellbikes.com.au/Sturmey-...Hub-700C-Wheel
gives you an extra gear on the fixie as well
on a side note, the new cell omeo range looks absolutely brilliant for the price points - di2, full carbon etc on the 2.0 for under 3k - beaut looker as well. the 1.5 will come with an SRAM gruppo, dunno if black or red but i think i know what my next treddlie will be
http://www.cellbikes.com.au/2014-Omeo-2-0-side-ver1.jpg
A frame thats made from 4130 and it has sealed hubs as well. You won't do any better than that for under $400.Quote:
Originally Posted by GazFish35
Looks like a good buy.
thanks for the help.
q. i contacted cell, discolsed my weight, the response was.... dont treat it like a bmx and you'll be fine.
the custom colour option comes with free postage and if i make it hideous no-one will want to pinch it..... lime and yellow me thinks.
:rof:Quote:
Originally Posted by GazFish35
Haven't really gone through the spec, but is it a full fixie? my get old pretty quickly commuting if you can't coast at traffic lights, going Downhill etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by GazFish35
The rear hub is flip-flop. Which I'm learning means it can be freewheel too. Which I'm planning to use it as.
I've also learnt the term "Clydesdale" thanks to q's concerns about the wheel set. :grin:
I do believe I'm a "super clydesdale"
Just check the flip flop, they can be fixie both sides with different sprocket sizes.Quote:
Originally Posted by GazFish35
Wheels can be an issue. I am by no means heavy, but destroy anything with less than a 30 spoke count pretty quickly.
FRAME 4130 Cr-Mo w/ rack and bottle cage mounts
FORK Hi-Ten Steel 1 1/8"
H/SET 1-1/8inch Heavy Duty Steel
B/B SET Cartridge 103mm/68mm
RIMS Deep Profile700c 32H w/ CNC Machined Sidewalls
F/HUB Sealed 32H Alloy Hi-Flange (White)
R/HUB Sealed 32H Alloy Hi-Flange (White) Flip-Flop w/ 16t Fixed Cog and 16t Freewheel
SPOKES 14G (White) Stainless Steel w/14mm Brass Nipples
TYRES CST 700x23c
TUBES 60mm Long Valve Presta
H/BAR Alloy Riser Bar
H/STEM Forged Alloy
SADDLE Aero Saddle w/ Chromeplate Rails
SEATPOST Zoom Alloy 26.0mm x 250mm
CHAINRING 1/8x46t 7075CNC Alloy
CHAIN KMC Z410 1/2x1/8x94links
PEDALS Wellgo LU-P8
B/LEVERS AlloyBMX-type
F/BRAKE Alloy Dual Pivot
R/BRAKE Alloy Dual Pivot
Mostly all Dutch to me.
paris-Roubaix on this sunday night. 9:30pm, SBS.
cobblestones :wub:
Awesome race. Really tests both the equipment and the rider.
the distances just blow me away. longest I have ridden is 104km (loop the lake plus riding to the start and back) in about 4 hours. I consider myself pretty fit and I just don't understand how people can keep going like that for so long at such intensity (some of them must surely be doing it with out "assistance").
Ze hell of ze north...
favourite race of the year - so much drama, so much pain
then switch over to watch Liverpool lose to some oil billionaire's play thing
would you bet against cancellara? monstered flanders last week
stybar and sagan the dark horses
wiggo riding it, should be interesting
Cyclocross is on at the velodrome on Sunday. Usually a good watch.
I would actually love to see Sir Bradley win it
Roubaix = cyclocross
sky putting wiggo out in the front for the entry into arenberg, still a long way out though
carnage in the break, lost 3 blokes to punctures in arenberg
cracker of a race shaping up here - canc, stybar, sagan, van marcke and degenkolb in the front 13 out carrrrrn
Attachment 684
Got surprised with this for my birthday!
Gotta find the alan keys!
fuark how good was paris-roubaix
canc, boonen & sagan all marked men, terpstra picked it beautifully, ironically boonen effectively dragged him up with his suicidal break 30k out
van marcke will win it in the next two years if he leaves belkin and goes to quick-step, great talent, shame stybar didn't work with him but tevz, that's racing
bicycle boyz havent changed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1y4UgZk_Xk
giro d'italia starts tonight...in Belfast, Ireland.
it's not even on the same land mass FFS*
* FFS is a registered trademark of MFKS. I apologise for the flagrant misuse of this trademark without the appropriate levels of ranting and swearing
lol
quintana a big shot, but if the weather turns to shit like last year you'd have to get around evans and purito rodriguez
quintana and purito aren't great in the TT though, evans could shade them.
if he wins it he'd have to be one of straya's greatest ever sportsmen
OGE to be in pink on first day, have a great TTT squad
pretty shocking day in the mountains, weird stuff with the supposedly neutralized descent
quintana is an amazing climber though, hesjedal was brilliant to go with him
also - sammy - i'm thinking about a hardtail mtb and don't want to break the bank - looked at a cannondale trail, but MTB is a bit of a mystery to me. what's the go with 29er's etc
give me your wisdom. budget 1K, new or 2nd hand not an issue
annette edmondson phwoar
http://24.media.tumblr.com/1f69875f0...8rk8o1_500.jpg
thats how you promote a sport
Q-mans 4 week fap fest is back.
Who's your tip big man?
I'm cheering for Contador, bloke has one dodgy meal and he's labelled a drug cheat. Victim of circumstance if you ask me.
Plus he hated Armstrong before it was trendy.
The sponsors and the manufacturers are to blame for the drug culture not the riders. Riders are merely doing what is neccessary to stay competitive and earn their living.
The treatment of Armstrong by the media, former sponsors, and manufacturers has been a disgrace.
hi plague
contador, froome dawg is cooked
lol ffs dunster, armstrong is pretty much the shittest douchebag on the planet
remember zip the lips