devashish_paul wrote:
NordicSkier wrote:
The early 90's... some pretty fast performances in those years. *cough* devashish_paul wrote:
Karl wrote:
Easy, I will not buy a disk brake bike. Canyon or P5 are in my future. But go ahead and enjoy spending your money anyway you want!
Better yet, all you guys who buy disc brake bikes...I'll buy your second hard wheels and fast bikes at firesale prices...everyone wins. Last time I checked almost no one is going faster than Mark Allen's 8:07 in Kona on Zipp 440's and a Huffy
I'm going to give Mark Allen in 92 the benefit of the doubt that the super stuff that Indurain, Rominger, Riis, Bugno, Chiapucci, Delgado and crew were on starting in 91 (when they left Lemond behind) )was not quite in Kona 'yet' by 92. Mark's performance was in line with his own performance 89 and 90 and that's the year that Lemond won the TdF purportedly before the peloton went on the EPO superjuice.
So I know that Dan is more liberal with accusations now, but if you're talking 92 in triathlon you probably need to be more careful....performances from 1994 till today, well we have no clue who was/is on what.
The doctor on Lemond's team in 1989, Dr. Van Mol, gave EPO to at least one rider on the team in 1988 after diagnosing him with anemia. LeMond claimed he had anemia in 1989 during the Giro, but I am sure that was just a coincidence. After all, like Sgt. Schultz, LeMond saw nothing amiss with his rivals who were all doping in the 80s. Doping in cycling started with Armstrong, dammit, and that is why LeMond had to use his 1970s knowledge of exercise physiology to figure out Lance was doping instead of first hand knowledge of a sport where doping was as normal as putting air in tires.