Doping

This is worth a read:

http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/08/news/in-search-of-relevance-a-cat-3-turns-to-epo-and-hgh_232611

I reckon if I juiced and trained like that I would want a better return.

Some of the big continental sportives have large cash prizes, and, when I was riding them (in non-competitive fashion, aiming to get gold standard times), did not have dope tests. Rumsas, after getting his ban from 'proper' races, rode the sportive circuit for a couple of years...