Is it legal to use caffeine in cycling

You can get a rush from just taking caffeine pills. If you want to wake up just pop you a couple of those 357 magnum caffeine pills and you'll wake up and go by Lance Armstrong on a 10% grade. It makes you shake wakes you up. If it's not illegal just try them, but unless you have an iron stomach you can't take them on an empty stomach. Eat a biscuit or something first.

There's more caffiene in a large cup of strong coffee or two shots of expresso and to be honest it really doesn't do all that much.

It used to be on the banned list of substances but I believe WADA threw this one into the "monitored" list.

I can take two caffeine pills. Those 357 magnums and you'll shake and you will feel alert. Coffe won't give you the same affect. I used to drink a lot of tea. With the caffeine and sugar it made the nerves in my hands shake, but it was because of the sugar more than the caffeine.

lots of gels have caffeine in them. i can tell pretty much instantly when i take a gel and get a little bit of a rush. i have yet to try the ones without caffeine so i'm curious to know if you get the same jolt without the caffeine.

for the record, i only take caffeine in gels. i have cut it out of my diet completely with that exception.

I've only taken caffeine. They will make you wake up. They are damn good if you're on a long drive and you have 4 or 5 hours left. You pop a couple and you're good to go. But the thing is they are legal and cheap. But if you take them on an empty stomach you might be sorry. I was always sluggish, because I hadn't gotten a good nights sleep in 20 years. So everytime I left for a trip I would drive an hour and get very sleepy and have to take a nap and then I was good to go for ten hours. I was told by a guy that new a doctor that caffeine pills would not hurt you.

Hi...
No it is not Legal to use caffeine in cycling...because so many racers who are doing so much hard work to won any race but this reasons all make that bad also it comes out with bad image to the society...

Caffeine is not only legal in cycling, it is MANDATORY.

I think it is very dangerous to ride in a pack, without having had at least one or two coffees, without that extra alertness you could make a silly mistake and bring down the pack.

Your moralistic crap is a danger to all of our health, and therefore do not be surprised if you are run off the road.

If you don't use caffeine, f off and go play ping-pong or checkers or something suitable for a non stimulated state.

I believe it is legal up to a certain level of concentration in the system, but although it dose wake you up, caffine de-hydrates the body,this de-hydration affects the performance of the body, and can lead to a rider getting cramp....which will stop you in your tracks!So in short I believe the negatives could out way any positives

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