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February, 2006

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EPO test is bad science?

Very interesting.
The study published in the major international scientific journal on blood science and medicine suggests International Olympic Committee (IOC) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) testing for Erythropoietin (Epo) is based on faked science………
……….Straightforward experimental protocol of the reported study leaves little doubt that the major urinary protein that WADA test visualizes with the ani-Epo […]

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Is Michael Rogers really a top rank time trialist?

Here are the top ten from the TT in the Tour of California.
1 - Floyd Landis - 35.58.91
2 - David Zabriskie - 0.25.62
3 - Bobby Julich - 0.34.98
4 - George Hincapie - 0.55.04
5 - Nathan O’Neill - 0.56.83
6 - Fabian Cancellara - 1.02.28
7 - Vladimir Gusev - 1.02.84
8 - Hayden Roulston - 1.07.75
9 - Levi […]

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Jess goes riding

If Life Is A Designated Bicycle Lane, I Want To Ride It (All Night Long)
Cross posted with permission - By Jess at Ausculture.
As I was leaving a dear friend’s house this evening, formulating a plan of attack regarding the confusing network of trams I would need to catch home, I was offered use of a […]

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Chris Sutton: “The road is there to share”

In todays Telegraph there’s a quick take by Rupert Guinness with Chris Sutton in the aftermath of a certain cycling incident on Brighton-le-Sands.
The Sydney-based cyclist said he was relishing a return to France, where riders are treated with reverence, after his frightening experience on a training ride on Sydney roads on Tuesday morning.
Sutton’s words show […]

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Bike parking

Via Martino’s Bike Lane Diary.

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Motoring nutcase

News.com.au.
A MAN has been charged after allegedly trying to run down a group of cyclists in a road rage incident in Sydney’s south.
An argument broke out after the 50-year-old man almost hit a group of about 20 cyclists on General Holmes Drive in Brighton-Le-Sands shortly before 6am (AEDT) yesterday as he drove out of a […]

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No e-mail subscription for you

One of the things I’ve been toying with doing for Spinopsys is a subscribe via e-mail function in the side bar.
I don’t really want to do this because I wanted to keep the template looking clean and uncluttered, less being more and all that, and I also believe that RSS feeds are a far […]

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They will abandon the Government before they abandon their cars.

Malcolm Farr in today’s Telegraph almost get’s it right. Still, he just can’t bring himself to say the P word.
A senior minister back from European consultations brings news of what’s worrying some of his overseas colleagues most. It isn’t bird flu, it isn’t an Iranian nuclear bomb, it’s not even terror attacks by totalitarian […]

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A moving Australian Story

It was a powerful and moving episode of Australian Story that was screened tonight on the ABC.
Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) women’s cycling coach Warren McDonald talks for the first time about the crash which killed one of his team members and injured five others……….
……….The injured riders also give detailed recollections about the crash to […]

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Your shop as an intersection between virtual and real

Spurred on by a couple of little things, I’ve had some thoughts running through my mind about the online economy and cycling retail. I’ve been asking myself questions about how smaller bicycle retailers can get a slice of the online pie in ways other than through the usual and expensive route of establishing their own […]

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