The Rise of the Super Mamil

[Joxster]

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/01/dope-and-glory-the-rise-of-cheating-in-amateur-sport


Interesting

[GregL]

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/01/dope-and-glory-the-rise-of-cheating-in-amateur-sport


Interesting
I'll go with "sad" rather than interesting. In a world that needs lots of help, spending obscene amounts of money on PEDs and bikes is just another sign of misplaced priorities.

- Greg

[velofinds]

Looks like this has been going on for at least a few years, if not longer. From older news closer to home:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/sports/cycling/doping-in-cycling-reaches-into-amateur-ranks.html
https://gfny.com/gfny15-winner-was-doping/

[Black Dog]

Love the image.

[cachagua]

The article says, "concealed motors... are legal outside of racing but offer any cyclist a decisive advantage".

Look at that sentence one more time. The unexamined assumption hidden in there is that, for any cyclist, going faster is the goal of riding, and anything that makes you go faster is an improvement. This creates an extremely narrow definition of bike riding as a teeth-gritting competition, but such a definition is incomplete at best.

As long as the people who write about the sport are suckered by this definition, and the people who read their articles are too, then there'll still be people standing in line for brain-implant-controlled 16-speed, and there'll still be manufacturers marketing it and selling it.

Everybody's whining about electric motors in your seat tube, but the only difference between that, on the one hand, and the "innovations" of the giants of the industry, on the other, is the scale of their operations.

No, I forgot -- there's one other difference: a motor makes you go faster.

[Mikej]

David Millar, the retired British professional road-racing cyclist, who became an anti-doping advocate when he returned from a two-year ban for doping a decade ago, says that without more research, “everything is hearsay”.


Now anti doping advocate - what a loser - I got caught so I'm going to be an anti doping advocate -has any doper actually turned themselves in without being caught? Nut-less b@astards...

[Cicli]

ExLax makes you ride faster.

[adub]

Terrible article

[oldpotatoe]

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/01/dope-and-glory-the-rise-of-cheating-in-amateur-sport


Interesting

MAMIL..had to look it up..the interweb can be amazing..

[Slow Eddie]

"You and me baby, ain't nothin' but MAMILs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k), so let's dope it like they did on Team Discovery Channel"

[peanutgallery]

Just think about the guy in 10 year old cycling shorts leaning his equally old litespeed against your counter and then proceeds to chat up your customers about internet prices, bum chain lube, bum a rag, Drops a duece in your restroom, then finally leaves. MAMIL

MAMIL..had to look it up..the interweb can be amazing..

[AJM100]

This was a funny read from a wife's perspective . . .

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2869069/Oh-shame-married-MAMIL-s-Middle-Aged-Man-Lycra.html

[velofinds]

"You and me baby, ain't nothin' but MAMILs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k), so let dope it like they did on Team Discovery Channel"

Well done!