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Endura were a Pro Continental team and the UCI can't afford to put in a biological passport program at that level. I imagine Endura's budget was small, and they wouldn't have had the funds to run a fully fledged bio passport for their riders. JTL would have known this so saying he welcomed being tested was easy for him to say, knowing that it wasn't going to happen.
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Endura released a statement saying that they offered to pay for the testing (http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/540641/jonathan-tiernan-locke-biological-passport-anomaly-former-team-issues-statement.html)
You may say that JTL able to predict that the UCI would turn around and deny this request, but that's quite a gamble to take. Though on the basis of past dopers, perhaps it is possible to see a trend of risk-seeking personalities.
JTL is not the first and will not be the last rider to have risen to prominence, seemingly from nowhere. It's easy to see this as anecdotal evidence (supported by riders like Ricco, Santambrogio, Tour of Turkey riders etc), but it is just that: anecdotal.