Lance Armstrong... greatest doper there was or ever will be

...Ferrari if i remember of the top of my head devised a way to curtail lactic, its simple & clever...

Very interesting.

Possibly a totally ridiculous question, but would the fact that they had fewer gears in the past have any bearing on this..?

They had fewer, but the range has always been available. Ask Ed about old french chainsets (I dare you).

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