Can Sparticus not be on drugs, Thanks. I don't think I could bear it if he is.

Thanks

Awesome ride. Nuff said.

Legend, the way he pulled away whilst in the saddle.

Boonen isnt happy that nobody went with him.

top stuff, i really hope he's not a doper

my hopes never get too high with these things though

cracking ride all the same

you all saw flanders too right?

and this?

and this?

if he is doping, he's been at it for a while. he's pretty damn good.

just a shame he's swiss!

Yes saw them too Track. I dont think he is a doper at all.

The way he took on Boonen at the Muer(sp) was great. Cobbled with them tyres, it puts some people to shame.

Ah, cycling TV, what a great way of cabbging, gives you so much motivation to get out after and slam some miles down.

4 of us are going to watch the start of the Giro next month………BRING IT ON!!

A sad sign of the times, but I can't let myself be fully engulfed in admiration for what were 2 super human and dominant rides (Roubaix and Flanders).

I really want to be able to believe and marvel at a genuine example of hitting peak form at just the right time through hard work and weetabix. It's just that virtually all of these 'too good to be true' rides seem to be followed swiftly by drugs test failure.

In Cancellara, I hope we have found a clean and clearly gifted athelete. For the moment, I am letting myself believe this. I can honestly say though, that should this not be the case, I am completely through with Pro racing. It would be the last straw.

He seems honest, but he does ride for Mr Riis who has a less than honest record when it comes to drugs himself!

I'll keep everything crossed that he was just the better man on both days. This being the case, they were truly outstanding rides. It's not like he powered away from an out of form bunch of 4th Cat club riders was it?! Amazing!!

Having read this back, it does sound like I am specifically not trusting of him. That's not the case, and I'm not pointing a finger specifically. It's more a sad reflection on the entire Pro Peleton.

Aye I'm hoping he's clean and giving him the benefit of the doubt but it really wouldn't surprise me if he wasn't.

Having read this back, it does sound like I am specifically not trusting of him. That's not the case, and I'm not pointing a finger specifically. It's more a sad reflection on the entire Pro Peleton.

you certainly can't be blamed for that, it's down to the athletes and teams to prove that cycling is clean and up to us to be the sceptics. Hopefully one day the bias will be the other way and we'll be more inclined to believe that they aren't doping

I have had this conversation several times with people don't watch the pro racing. Many people seem to think that doping is endemic in the sport. I counter that at least cycling is actively seen to be targeting cheats [both individuals and teams ] which is something that can't be said for many /most professional sports.
I also think he is clean and also the vast majority of the leading athletes – just hope I'm not being naiive

hope I'm not being naiive

you are

and I fear you might be right

My attitude to pro cycling is the same as my attitude towards sausages;

I like sausages, but I don't want to know how they're made.

You misinterpret Mr C. He is a specialist time trialler who has ridden away from people in the Classic one dayers for many years. ParRou suits his style as a hard day with a 'time trial' at the end. Might he be on drugs? Who knows. Boonen is the druggy in my eyes whether in or put of competition it doesn't matter.

You may be being naiive gnasher but its a more positive place to be than cynically assuming they're all druggies.

Loving the sausages quote! Maybe that's the best way to be!

I always admired Indurain and still do, yet the balance of probability given the era in which he raced was that he was smashed off his face most of the time. Might account for that vacant stare he had every year until Mr Riis (him again!) beat him with a similarly dominant performance in the mountains.

Amazing to watch – particularly given the state of some of those lanes, legendary route.

If he has partaken in something he shouldn't, then he'll be in good company, along with all the other great riders in history.

Hes clean.

See the way he rode passed Twiggo in the world TT champs last year and then rode like an ox in the worlds RR, he was unlucky there. Hes won the Tour of Swiss as well which is as hilly as buggery. Hes been "as strong as" for along time and had loads of tests.

But on the other side of things Armstrong is the most tested of all the peleton and he has never been tested positive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long live Spartacus, in the last two weeks of cycling, well 3 weeks inc E3 what I have seen is magical and I do think hes clean, hes a "good fella" 😛 His watt outputs are off the charts!!!!!!!!!

he is a cyborg from the future.
fact!

(or is that thor?)

solarider, it's my view that indurain and riis used the early variants of EPO, allegedly the entire banesto were once tested and all 9 riders had a red blood cell count of within about 1% of each other (and the values ranged from 48 to 49.5 when the unofficial limit was 50%). Bjarne's nickname in the peloton was supposedly 'Mr 60%'

anyway… is Fabien clean? maybe. I would love him to be. The way that he doesn't nail people in the climbs as well as the TTs as other previous dopers have (in the big multistage races) makes me think that it's less likely. but impossible? no, sadly, but I still love bike racing