Weather is nice.

http://www.islandconnections.eu/1000003/1000043/0/31002/daily-news-article.html

Perhaps they only told him it was beef.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/10/news/spanish-police-uncover-clenbuterol-ring-used-in-horses-livestock_147239#

This Saxobank teambuilding camp… I wonder where it was?

Junkyard – You and I are not proffessional athletes.
Granted, the guy isn’t always riding to win. Just that if I had to pick a factor to justify giving the benefit of the doubt to a professional cyclist it would be consistency of performance not variability.

I’m not picking on Schlecklet in particular, I have a very cynical view of pro cycling.

riding for B Riis – not the slightest circumstantial whiff of fish?

You know about F. Schleck and Dr Fuentes, then?
highly circumstantial for Schleck minor, admittedly

I fail to see why performances fluctuating between weakness and being one of the best climbers in the world should be a reason for giving benefit of the doubt.

19,000 cattle were tasted for Clenbuterol in Spain 2008-9 with no positives.
If they were doping them, then surely they would have caught them by now, even with the advances in testing, is there not the slightest possibility that they are clean?

“I’ve already got chicken legs”

Overheard in Morrisons the other day.

She hadn’t, but I didn’t tell her.

I think justice would be a two year ban reduced to one year on appeal.

Followed by a validation of the plasticizer test and a two year ban for transfusing.

The sound of clutching at straws is becoming apparent to me. I am sat here trying to put my thesis together – am I supposed to reject all data I have not personally compiled?

I think one of the differences with rowing is that success does not depend on maintaining a sustained performance over a three week long event
(also there are no hills)

weedwizard –

http://www.steroidonlineshop.com/d1-erythropoietin.html

do you really think bike racing on grand tours became interesting in the epo era?

you know what I mean, dude

1999 samples?

Big Kimmage/Walsh article next issue Sunday Times

(strangely not afraid of being sued any more)

if you’ve tried all that, it sounds like you need to improve drainage

Would a heron bite chunks out of a fish?
I’d have thought beak would be the wrong shape.

Dates are approximate.
4/11/10 Popovych forced to testify to Grand Jury. Claimed no knowledge of doping programs.
13/11/10 Popovych house raided by Italian police.
18/11/10 FDA officials reported in Europe gathering evidence.

All quiet until today – SI reports PEDs, evidence of Ferrari links etc. found at Popovych house. Popovych has ridden on three Armstrong teams since 2005. Perjury before grand jury is a serious offence. Do you think Popovych will go to prison for Armstrong?

I believed it cameback with the intention of fighting cancer

in full
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1180944/1/index.htm

He was clean when he rode for USPS but guilty afterwards

thank you nsaints

we need to put the cattle in US style mega-factory concrete farms to protect them

I got a quote for a powder coat from http://johnwhitemanengineering.co.uk/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
some time ago and never took it up. I forget the exact sum but remember thinking that it was very cheap.
I would have thought that in a place like Nottingham you would be spoilt for choice.

I think Eagles have more mesh sections between the “leather” ones – more ventilation. I could be wrong.

the same calculator gives 264.2 mm and 281.7 mm for 1x and 3xcross. Does this agree with your bike shop?

http://lenni.info/edd/
I make it 271.4 mm assuming your rims are 700c and 32H.
It is early morning, mind.

has anyone used/considered dog clippers?

Merely pointing out the comparison with grape varieties was misleading.
And teaching myself to do the quote thingie.

There are two varieties of coffee bean (as opposed to dozens of grape varieties) – arabica and robusta

arabica and robusta are separate species, there are different varieties of both

[pedant]black mountains [/pedant]

this is a good book

3 – Entoloma porphyrophaeum

try the free demo of mycokey:

http://www.mycokey.com/newMycoKeySite/MycoKey3Sales.html

The Alston campsite is, IIRC, a small static caravan site that does its best to help out hikers on the Pennine Way as it is (was) the only site for a long stretch.

don't ride up hills, ride over them

Worst for midges: Keld.
Probably a lovely campsite but I couldn't get out of the tent.

good clear pics of UK specimens on bioimages:

http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r157002.htm