Doping

It takes about five seconds of rewatching that video to see that the bike starts moving again after he unclips his right pedal. Maintains the fine Spanish press tradition of giving no quarter to cheats, though.

Is the stuff used for cleaning any different from the stuff used for human consumption? I think it's exactly the same compound sold to put in cakes and things. Could be wrong, mind. I know my parents brushed their teeth with it, and have never died or received doping bans as a result. Anyway, it's a tenner for 5kg, so if he was buying it from the chemist, we was getting mugged.

It does all kind of cool shizz, before you even think of cheating at game of biek:

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/51-fantastic-uses-for-baking-soda.html

It should be, but what do you think they're going to take more care manufacturing? Stuff you eat or stuff you leave sit in a fridge and then bin?

How often were your parents drug tested?

Anyway, picking it up from a chemist might just have been more convenient because he was already heading there for some hemorrhoid cream. Who knows?

I'm expecting the Spanish PM to intervene at any moment.

He never said he bought the Bicarb from the chemist, it was the empty gelatine caps he was going to put it in that were apparently contaminated.

luls.

This is just a fast spinning wheel from the descent hitting the ground and spinning the (v lightweight) bike around.

Used to do this as a kid messing around - turn the bike upside down, spin the pedals to turn the wheels as fast as possible then push the bike over and watch it spin around :P

If that bike had a motor in it would he be using it to descend? Doubt it. Also, all the other riders must have had a motor as they were going the same pace as Ryder. The bike just was slipping downhillemphasized text

He never said he bought the Bicarb from the chemist, it was the empty
gelatine caps he was going to put it in that were apparently
contaminated.

^ This. He wasn't buying bicarb FFS.

If that bike had a motor in it would he be using it to descend? Doubt it. Also, all the other riders must have had a motor as they were going the same pace as Ryder. The bike just was slipping downhillemphasized text

You think they aren't pedalling hard even when descending?

Perhaps the mythic motor puts out 10w.

Valentin Iglinsky positive for EPO at the Eneco Tour.

Why would he buy empty capsules to then put bicarb in, when he could have just bought bicarb tablets there and then?

EPO use admitted and immediately sacked by Astana:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/sep/11/valentin-iglinsky-sacked-astana-epo

To add caffeine and other non prohibited things perhaps.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/09/news/astana-fire-valentin-iglinskiy-epo-positive_344979

Matteo Rabottini now popped for EPO too.

I suspect Luca Scinto has had his final second chance.

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So bicarbonate of soda can give a performance boost? Interesting....

If you are going hard enough in a TT or sprint effort it will apparently buffer the onset of blood acidosis.

Isn't it very hard to get dosage right though? Too much and everything starts explosively coming out of every orifice.

This research suggests not if you serial load

http://suppversity.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-latest-on-sodium-bicarbonate-serial.html

Time to bi-carb load...

You're bi-curious now are you?

Too much bi-lateral thinking

http://cyclingtips.com.au/2014/09/biological-passport-what-can-teams-learn-from-the-tiernan-locke-case/