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Better because their covering up like for king carl

My question- Has anyone ever won the tour without been doped up to their eyeballs?

Yes I prefer to think that way...I think the whole idea of doping and steroids is stupid. In years past they did not have the knowlegde to use these type of drugs to enhance your preformace..similar to they did not have the same type of bike technology that we do now to enhance their performace. If everyone uses steroids and doping than the field is even...correct?

Would a great cyclist of years past be able to beat a great cyclist with today's bikes? All else equal...

Also will the spinning style lance made famous get replaced with a better style like maybe Jan's style now?

You can figure out my answers...

-john sirabella

nothing

Yes.
And your question?

yes, and vice-versa.
no, not replaced. various styles will continue to exist as different approaches work better for different riders.


Q: Will Landis ever admit guilt?

no, i don't think so. i think he will try ot go the lance route and court a primarily american fanbase. even when his MJ is taken and he is supended 2 years, i think he won't admit anything so (casual) american fans can be naive enough to support him.

my q: what is the best road bike for the money in the $1200 range?

No.

Is retired American Pro cyclist and current USCF Junior coach David Brinton really Jack Lawrence, porn star??

Giant OCR 2

My Q
is cycling too expensive of a hobby and thats why most Americans arent into it

No, Americans in general do not consider cycling a sport. It is considered a recreational activity at best and now a way to burn calories. Unless they can watch it on TV, it will never catch on, for TV you need advertising dollars and ironically while the rich are into it now, they can not find the dollars. Even though now it has become the sport of the "rich" replacing golf or a "culture" among the messengers who have now formed a larger group, it is just not a sport kids can relate to. It is unfortunate but it really only for the few who fall in love with it and do not care about the popularity.

I fall in between the two categories, a messenger during college "before it was cool and a culture" to a guy who has his own business and now over 40 trying to get my last glory and stay in shape. I really can not get enough of it but really love weights lifting also.

Just got back from Race2Replace and can say it will never become a major sports in the USA...Not even Lance can do it...But keep on the fight for cures to cancer!!


Q.
How do you rank cycling compared to basketball, baseball, football, soccer and tennis in terms of how fit a person must be and which is tougher to compete in...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

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Q. If you had a chance to own a bike riden in a competitive cycling event over the last 100 years, who's bike would it be and what event?

I wanna go again ok

My A= Lances First Tour de France bike or the last, unoriginal yes, but think its the most famous bike to non-cycling fans and cycling fans alike, not everyone knows Greg Lemond, Eddy Mercx or Maurice Garin but everyone knows Lance!

My Q= If you could be on any team which would it be

Lance Armstrong's 7th tour victory ride to Champs-Elysées.

Q: Is Boonen going to become a World Champion 2 years in a row?

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Missing the empty roads in Indiana...

I doubt it.

For the record, if I could have any bike it would be Eddy Merckx's hour record fixed gear.... nothing else compares.

Q: What factory produces inexpensive bikes for Target right along side Trek's high end bikes?

http://www.lonympics.co.uk/fantasy/cycling.htm A game where you can win teh Yellow Jersey by winning the Tour De France, and hey he no guilty, or is

Every sport has different types of fitness, cycling is an endurance sport with limited extremely high intensity movements, but nonetheless a very tough sport to compete in...especially goin up mountains!!! I play basketball & lots of it, i have a mate who plays Aussie Rules, a sport where huge distances of ground are covered regularly in their games, he is very good and extremely fit! ...or at least is on the footy field, he swaps to bball, 15mins in has to have a break, cant take it anymore, game is too fast, this guy is an elite athlete! Basketball, apparently from reading studies is the sport with the most regularly occuring high intensity movements and consequently whilst endurance is a very necessary component (i actually have won countless long distance running events, never training, just because of my bball fitness) its more the acceleration component which drains a person's energy. A basketballer would hardly be able to jump straight across into cycling and expect to win regularly nor would a cyclist fair well the first time he played high level basketball.

If you're talking about football as in American Football, then i presume it is similar to Baseball, extremely high intensity movements, but with large rest periods. Tennis i havent played enough of to comment, but damn that sport looks tough, i certainly admire the guys who go 5sets and still play with fire and intensity soccer i love it, tiring, but long periods of low intensity movement reduces the necessity for extremely high levels of fitness.

So in conclusion each sport is very different as in "how fit" you need to be, but without doubt professional cycling is right in the very top echelon of sports fitness along with things like marathons, ironman comp's and other similar sports, however a transition to another sport which requires "less" fitness might not be too successful either.

My Q. Are the low-end Trek Bikes overpriced?