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  • wait, is he using track rims? disk + 5 spoke

  • @kennethponggawa called disc and aerospoke

  • @TheCheesyCheesus im thinking more to the mavic iO and mavic comete for track cycling or something from rolf prima, but i doubt that they even have brake line haha, thats definitely not an aerospoke, its friggin thick!

  • I don't get it, Lance barely finishes the Tour in the 90s, then after cancer he passes Pantani (mountain king) in the Alps like he's a toddler & then does as good or better than David Millar (time trial king) against the clock. Lance also beats Ullrich, Zulle, Virenque & other top contenders easily when in the 90s Armstrong had NO chance against them. And many of them admitted doping!! In cycling, you are born gifted. You don't suck at the sport and then become a drugfree-champion, very fishy!!

  • @dachicagoan I don't think a person who wins two stages, plus a world championship and place among the top 10 in an Olympic time trial "sucks" at the sport. Anyways, there are the usual contradictory theories saying Armstrong doped, which caused his cancer (and yet he supposedly "sucked" in the Tour) and he doped after cancer, which explains his transformation. That makes no sense. Keep in mind that Lance placed 4th in the Vuelta the year in 1998 before his tour victories.

  • @YiftertheShifter1 You should keep in mind too that Lance never was able to climb with the best in his 4 first TDF, he was just able to stay with gruppeto when he didn't leave TDF !

    He is like Riis, who has admitted EPO use for his TDF win, he had never showed that he could be a TDF winner. Sure his one-day race abilities shouldn't be dismissed but that has nothing to do with TDF (mountain stages and a 21 days of racing).

    By comparaison, all great champions were detected at 23 or 24 yo.

  • @bampie1: I didn't say he is guilty - I said him never failing a drugs test doesn't mean a lot. Floyd Landis didn't fail a drugs test until that one in the TDF, but he had been doped up to the eyeballs for the previous four years. If Floyd had retired after stage 16 of the TDF he could be saying the same thing - 'I never tested positive'. There is enough smoke around LA for me to be highly suspicious, but will likely never know the truth.

  • @cmrhappy11 well, they should just let it go then, don't you think? i mean if they can't catch someone doping at the time of the actual race, it should just be left alone. what's the point of dredging it up at this point? to keep him from winning any more tour de frances?

  • @saberfan123: Marion Jones never failed a drugs test either - doesn't mean a thing. You can rest your case but it's a weak one...

  • @cmrhappy11 The most tested athlete in sport even tested him when he was have cancer treatment never tested positive. But you think he is guilty! Have you ever taken a dope test, probably not but I bet you would fail and I am not talking about drugs!

  • 20+ year career. 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.

  • @saberfan123 Is that a case full of drugs which don't show up in drugs tests?

  • Lance is the MAN

  • Go millar!

  • With two balls he would be man enough to tell the truth...

  • Lance is a bad mofo.

  • Lance Armstrong is a badass. I don't care if he doped up to RIDE A BIKE THOUSANDS OF MILES. You idiots dope up cause no one wants to be you friend on Facebook. The only way sports will catch your simple attentions is if the athletes dope up and you peeps know it. Lance isn't the only one that doped up anyway. So who wins? Lance. Game.

  • I dont give a fuck if he doped lol Voigt is better anyways

  • @pdunklau Ok say Lance doped. So did Voigt. Yet Lance won.....So exactly how is Voigt better?

  • @blzeye87 well if armstrong did dope then voigt would therefor be better but honestly not that i watched a few spring classics haha im going to take back the whole Yens Voigt thing lol

  • I wonder if companies will start putting dimples on their bikes now that the mythbusters have proven that dimpled surface is more aerodynamic than a smooth surface!

  • Hey you questioners.... How in the world dare you question his performance and results.... Who are you ??

    You, who doubt him are only poor bankrupted individuals without having enough moral and physical strength to face him.

    AND you have enough misery within you that makes you use your f..king fingers and type garbage to tarnish his legacy !!!

    Eventually You'll die and nobody will remember you !! Everybody will remember Lance Armstrong though - you betcha !

  • @0000Lance0000 fuck you and your opinion. Armstrong will be remembered, yes, as a fucking doper.

  • @CheaterNLaw Your brain has been doped, so please zip your mouth up.

  • @CheaterNLaw Exactly how can he be remeberd as a dopper if he has yet to be proven as one...Think before you type dumbass!!!

  • @blzeye87 just like that.. everyone knows he doped. suck my cock, faggot.

  • @CheaterNLaw First of all no one knows for sure they can only have accusations. And you sit there calling me a fag yet you are the one wanting a guy to suck your dick....Who is the gay one here?

  • The reporter is right; Lance DOPEstrong is the cancer of cycling. He would have never won the tour without doping. There are mountains of evidence suggesting his guilt. He should be required to relinquish all of his money and property and sent to prison for being a fraud. It’s really sad that so many thought of him as some kind of hero only to find out that he’s one big lie.

  • @mrcardio9r : So, lets get this right, if we may, with facts...... Pantani:Guilty - Virenque:Guilty - Ulrich:Guilty - Contador:Guilty - in fact just about all of them guilty - hey, he still did well then as they were all guilty. But I dont see yo mentioning any other rider except Armstrong......I question why?

  • Yea Lance Dopestrong!!

  • Does anybody else notice the complete difference between Armstrong and the rest of the pack regarding: cadence, saddle position-fore/aft and height?

    Can anybody knowledgeable comment about this?

  • @edmonddantes64 Yea LA always rides with a very high cadence. The disadvantage of a high cadence is spending more energy, and a higher hart rate. The advantage is that you get much less muscle fatigue/lactic acid. Especially is the mountains LA high cadence was very effective. Most pro-cyclist peddle with around 70/80rpm in the mountains, while Armstrong peddles with about 100rpm in the mountains. You can only use such a high cadence when you got a very strong hart/lungs:))

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  • nice rims

  • If I was asked to do this I would just die or faint.

  • Terrific commentating line. "all of these bikes resembling bikes."

  • Look at his cadence! Does anyone know what is rpm is?

  • @chrisbear08 You figure it out for us...

  • lance is the man! i read his biogrophy and it is an amazing book, i love it! and by the way he and the one who won this stage (david millar) are actually friends

  • It's so funny how people judge lance, and can't accept that he is totally awsome on a TREK!! Yes he's getting oldish, But i still respect him! When he is 90 i will still like him! Everytime somebody else comes along, like contador people follow the new! Lance is already a legend! Long live Lance....

  • lance's going down!

  • Ullrich? Fit? I mean fit to somehow race, but certainly not to challenge. Pity he only got himself into real good shape a few times in his career. Had he been in better shape, other than 1997 and 2003, he could have beaten Armstrong, imo. Lance always said Ullrich was the most talented bike rider of their generation.

  • this is a purebred cycling machine. lance is getting old unfortunately and i dont think he will beat alberto contador because the spaniard is only getting stronger and faster.

  • Armstrong! They should call him Lance Legstrong

  • Legstrong and mindstrong also!!

  • @vinesen1

    Dopestrong

  • @SammySoliman

    Lance DOPEstrong would be more like it.

  • @SammySoliman

    Lance Legstrong or maybe Lance "Epo-Whore"

  • Yes technopunkster. They are all lucky you are doing whatever you do instead of turning pro and embarrassing them. Obviously your current career is much more rewarding.

  • It would be sweet to ride the tour de france and complete it

  • good thing im not PRO. I would destroy these guys. piece of cake

  • how many mph is he going

  • @bigwillisawesome for a 20k bike ride they average just short of 60kph which is roughly 33/34 mph.

  • just over 50kmh to be precise. average 60 is more a track pace over 2km :)

  • @aistis1234567890 they average 53/54 for a hour ride, but if you watch the 2005 TT which is roughly 20k armstrong comes second with nearee 60kph than 50, im not sure so dont quote me but i think its around 56/57 : ) but yeh they dont reach 60

  • i will admit that some world class cyclists dope....but everytime someone wins the tour, everyone accuses them of doping. i guess its impossible to win the tour de france naturally?

  • David Millar takes it, swimming to the gills in EPO. Get out of the sport for good you cheating pr1ck.

  • wow look at that frame flex

  • those were the early days of trek's carbon fiber building. These first couple of years their worst tt bikes were made

  • But still i would kill to have one

  • oh no doubt I would too

  • part of high end sports is pushing the limit. how many riders have died during a grand tour because of "dope"? Two? Out of thousands of riders. All you losers crying about "dope" don't even know what you are crying about. So many flaws in your argument. I bet you idiots take vitamins, which are surprise surprise, synthetic vitamins created in a lab. Uh oh, you are all dopers.

  • What is your points? Cheating and doping is correct?

  • we don't blood dope, dumb arse.

  • Lance Armstrong has allways been a really special person... even as a baby he was allready big... and he was just very good... He DIDNT use dope... he was just the best, trained a lot, used a hight tent (or something) that does what EPO does in an illegal way but this is legal...

  • Lance always maintains a rapid cadence - what sort of gear was he turning in the TT?

  • 0:48-55. What's he talking about??

  • He's refering to the strict rules that dictate the shape of a road bike and a time-trial bike. For example two different bikes that the Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree rode were later banned by the UCI - mostly because of their handlebars.

  • me too

  • i could win the tour de France

    if they would allow me to use a motorcycle

  • @gmarte12 I too :D

  • @gmarte12 chuck norris can win but he was banned.XD

  • @khk0510 Cuando conoci su historia realmente me conmovio,es un verdadero luchador dentro y fuera de las pistas un ejemplo de vida,un saludo juan pablo desde bs as Argentina!!!!!!

  • @gmarte12 you still wouldnt be as nimble as the bikes on the downhills lol

  • Amazing what can be done with the will to win and a natural talent for cycling.

    Did you know Lance could just about hang with the top names in triathlon cycling when he was 16,17 years old? Its only normal to confuse his natural talent with possible drug use, but he is just that good.

  • Amazing what can be done with EPO and/or blood transfusion.

  • "To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you," Armstrong said after his final Tour triumph in July. "I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it."

  • yes and 90% of all top 10 of his TDF have been linked or caught in doping affairs.

    How can he beat those riders using EPO which provides a 20% advantage?

    How did he got a 49% hct and just 45% since blood values are monitored?

  • Face it, Lance Armstrong is great.

  • Great at doping and avoid positive by bribing UCI with a $500.000 as agreement of a false TUE.

    The only great is his doctor named Ferrari able to change an average rider to an unbeatable.

    Have you read velocitynation article about his samples of 1999? Thanks to Dr. who said EPO was not more dangerous than EPO!

  • EPO can't make a rider great.

  • Who was Riis without EPO?

  • EPO isn't the be all, end all of cycling performance. Riis wasn't great IMO, even if he lived clean & that victory remained.

  • Oh yes a guy who finished around the 100th rank without EPO.

    But if you have better products let us know.

  • Jealousy is so sad. Unfulfilled ambitions as a bike rider?

  • @u368 u right all of them are fucking dopers michael jordan, tiger woods, Contador, Indurain, Merckx, Valverde, Sastre all because they win they are dopers and if they win too much more doper they are right....

  • 51.787km/h was an average speed or Vmax speed?

  • average speed

  • thx dude ;)

  • avg speed

  • does anyone know what bike hes riding at 0:46?

  • its a pinarello

  • thats a Pinarello frame with zipp wheels...

    can't spot the gear system sorry....

  • Would probably be Campy SR or Record...

  • Pinarello!

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  • Lol, why is this a video response to "Aliens Are Among Us".. Thought i was the only aliens + cycling fan.. ;)

  • Nope. I am also fan of aliens and cycling :) - and many more unusual things which don't go together at first sight :)

  • MustardJunkie needs to get a life, she s a miserable human being with a hairy back and will live a lonely life for the rest of her existence and she dies no one will care

  • You know what? When I think that I know people that smoke 4 packets of cigarettes per day for 35 years, without exercise and dont get multitransforming cancer like Lance, I wonder wether mustardjunkie is spot on, about the amounts of dope that could give an "athlete" all this cancer wagon. Did he not eat his greenies then?

  • ok I don't do long distance cycling as exercise but I some how like watching tour de france.

  • Mustard junkie if you ride, then why can't you respect cyclists who are obviously a lot better than you and me?

  • When i think of MustardJunkie I picture him to be similar to the killer out of Silence of the Lambs, sitting at his computer in a dark room all alone, pictures of Lance Armstrong all over his walls with Lance eyes poked out and he's written Die Lance Die all the pictures. Hes a sad excuse for a human being. Get off the computer go outside and get some sunlight and keep your irrelevant drivel to yourself.

  • Do not worry mate, you are on the right truck. But these POP_Messiah people Armstrong fans, talk to you like that, not because you are wrong, but because they do not give a shit for values. They just want to see a human guinea pig pushed to the limit for their satisfaction no matter what.

    Even if he was eating cowshit they would pretend not to see.

  • 2myaccount2 you are very stuppid!!

    don't react if you don't follow cycling idiot!!

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  • Who do you think?? Lance offcourse...

  • Micheal Jordan

  • How fast do these ppl go at the max?

  • Max? 40mph+ in an all out sprint.

  • Jeez. Insane!

  • down hill they can get goin to like 60 mph I believe.

  • it´s correct

  • where did you hear that from.

  • just from watchin a lot of cycling, having friends involved in semi pro cycling, junk like that.

  • goddamn those bikes are soooo pretty

  • Lance SuperStrong and that TT bike look as One. Awesome.

    Miller was a beast this day...

  • Lance's all out 1-hour power (FTP) on the bike right now is no better than 370 watts. That would get him a DNF or nearly last place finish in the Giro D'Italia

  • Almost NO side effects with autologous blood transfusions since its your own blood.

  • Lance is the best!!!!!!

  • Armstrong kicks all kinds of skinny ass.

  • junkie, you should write a fictional book about Lance. You have come up with better scenarios and "facts" than the authors of the articles and books you have been reading. I think fiction is you bag.

  • The competitive advantages that clean riders, like Armstrong and others, bring to grand tours takes years to build and months (before or in) competition to fine tune. These advantages are not cooked-up and administered just before the race behind closed doors as Lance haters would like everyone to believe, just to calm their troubled feelings of failure.

  • You know Lance's FTP is 350-370 watts the day of the race right before he takes a 'refill.' And I bet Taylor Phinney already has experience with this LOL.

    If Lance rode the Tour clean he wouldnt even finish or if the pace was slower from less blood dopers he could get 50-75 places. LOL!!!

  • Throw all the numbers you want but they mean nothing without the multitude of variables that effect them at the time they are gathered. That's where your data falls on it's face in the real world of cycling.

  • Holy smokes Z when did you go insane?

  • Change-up.

  • Lance's doped FTP after 600-800cc of packed red cell transfusion will be 475 watts (over 30% higher.)

    On an operating room table it only takes 15 minutes to slam 5 units of blood into somebody with pressure bags attacked to an IV (blood pumps.)

    Autologous blood doping has no real isues compared to homologous. Lance will be up and out of the motorhome and ready to race.

  • Dude, are you obsessed with Lance Armstrong or something???

  • No, I've been arguing with ZPQY back and forth for about 2 months now.

    I leave comments on many other cycling vids but they dont have the sheer number of views that the LA vids have, most cycling vids on other top riders (that are better than Lance is right now) get less than 10 comments total. Also, the real cycling fans that know who other riders are have seen the doping scandals and followed the sport long enough to use common since in their logic (ET UFO rides are impossible.)

  • could you explain what your saying?

  • mustard you have serious issues - get a fucking life!

  • No proof. No evidence..Find a new hobby because this one is useless.

  • I ride, what hobby have you found? Sitting on the laptop computer and hemo-diluting on orange soda pop & coolaid?

  • I also ride. I don't waste my time commenting on every single LA video. What are you trying to do? You're not going to convince anyone that he's doper if they don't think that he is.

  • This comment is in response to robert3330 and mustardjunkies follow-up.

    No sport is on a level playing field because no two people are alike. Sounds naive and simple but that is the long and short of it.

    With or without drugs, just the physical and bio mechanical complexities of cycling, or any endurance sport, is beyond the comprehension of "most people" who have not been down that road. If mustardjunkie has been down that road, then he is bitter about failure, given his point-of-view.

  • Thats right, I'm a bitter crackpot! Just like Decanio, LeMond, Steffan, Vaughters, Andreaus, Zulle, Manzano, Jatchke, etc ,etc.

  • The only rider out of this group I can speak with certainty is LeMond. He did not fail to continue to be competitive as a result of EPO/cheaters but rather by his inability to train consistently and keep pace with rapidly advancing science regarding cycling specific training and nutrition. That is the real story but it doesn't sell papers or magazines or books, so few talk about.

  • I dunno 'bout that but Im pretty sure Lemond wouldnt enter the tour with below par fitness . Its kinda strange when you prepare and train hard prior to the tour and you got dropped by a big assed sprinters and riders whom you beat day in day out on the climbs years before and got dropped in a spectacular manner. Greg sez he didnt bonk, its just the peloton just suddenly went superstrong. We all know why, and its not just vitamins,and thats a proven fact.

  • Its not about making it level bro...

    IN the 1980s it was still possible for a freaky talented clean rider to win the Tour... There were dopers but all the dopers had to dope with was stimulants, testosterone, HGH (from cadavers), and that does not "do it" in aerobic sport. Anabolic steroids will help you push yourself harder training but it wont increase you oxygen carrying capacity and thats what wins grand Tours, oxygen assimilation per Kilo because of the long mountain climbs.

  • mustardjunkie your understanding of these performance enhancing drugs is as flawed as your ability to see the reality that Lance Armstrong is clean and has been clean since his diagnoses with cancer. Before that, I think anything was possible, but with that said, he has never tested positive for any banned, undeclared, substances. Ever. Your assumptions are outlandish. End of story for sane people. Get over it.

    You are flat wrong about Armstrong. Period.

  • Lance is a typical Nike drug cheat, addict and bald faced liar.

    He doped BEFORE his Cancer at overdsing levels (testosterone, female fertility hormone hCG, cortcoids, and plenty of EPO)

    He doped during his chemo therapy (chemo, EPO, and research drugs)

    He doped AFTER his cancer (more testosterone, female hormones, insulin, hGH, EPO, human and cow blood transfusions and other Polypharmacy)

  • He lies and the media makes money off those empty denials. And NO CURE for Cancer either! Cancer is a super profitable drug sales business. Solar power will never happen either.

  • What would HCG do?

  • Upon the advent of EPO (clinical approval in 1991) everybody had the oportunity to jack their crits. This can give up to 20% boost in funtional Threshold power (the maximum amount of watts you can hold for 1-hour.)

  • But... If my un-doped FTP is 300 watts I can maintain this for an hour. But if I use epo for 8 weeks and increase my FTP to 360 watts, I can now maintain 300 watts for 4-HOURS strait. That is how the body adapts itself. You work around threhold power levels to get everything below it raised. Now bro.... Stimulants and steroids did not do much for dopers of the past before EPO.

  • I might gain 5 watts at threshold after a 16 oz coffee (10mg/kg). But EPO might give me 60 more watts! Somebody with just 10% more power than you can pretty much TOY with you in a race....

    Most riders in the 1991 Tour de France NOT on EPO would have had to drop out of the race because of the higher overall pace due to the few EPO users in that Tour (Indurain, Bugno, etc who handed Fingon and LeMond's asses to them on a platter.

  • (LeMond finished 7th in the best shape of his life after winning the year before, and fingon was a freak too to get 6th.)

    In the 1992 TDF Greg LeMond lost 52 minutes in one stage going to Sestriere, where Claudio Chiappucci won. This was the end of Greg LeMond and he abandoned that Tour from about 160th place. LeMond had dropped Chiappucci in previous Tours where there was no EPO for dopers to dope with.

  • IN 1994 as full doping programs run by doctors became more prominent, the pace got EVEN higher and no one finished the Tour de France cleanly ever again without doping, atleast not until EPO became tested for and the big fish moved on to autologous blood doping. In the 1994 Tour, LeMond made it 5 stages. On the 6th stage, he was dropped by the incredible pace of the pack, pulled over and quit.

  • So bro... Its not about "leveling" things out... Its about making it possible for a freaky talented clean rider to win the Tour again without doping. And... This can be done if autologous blood transfusions & O2 carriers (artificial hemoglobin) is tested for and stopped. Now once gene doping is perfected that might shake things up a bit but its ALL about 02 carrying and not muscle strength. So it will be interesting to see what kind of threat genes are.

  • p.s. this is a response to mustard junkie

  • Now on to more positive things.

    Thanks for posting and thanks for believing in cycling and Lance, THE best non-doper in cycling.

  • Disregard mustardjunkie's comments. The only information he"see's" regarding Lance and cycling, in general, is gathered from books written by bitter has-bin's, bitter never-was', bitter never-will's and garbage anti-Lance/cycling websites. He has no personal professional sports, cycling or otherwise, knowledge and has no clue personally as to what it takes to achieve the performance levels of pro-athletes, only the front-page news versions.

  • sem palavras parabéns, muito bom. vejo todos os dias. este vidio me lembra, o filme com kevem costa., competiçaõ de destino.

  • Rock that bike

  • Lance is the best.. and you know it..

  • por que no sale con el maillot amarillo?

    why he no wear the yellow t-shirt?

  • this is the prologue, first day of the race. the yellow jersey signifies who is the leader and since it is the first day there is no leader, in the past the previous years winner wore the yellow jersey on the first day but Armstrong only wore the yellow jersey when he had earned it.

  • lance the best

  • Go Lance SuperStrong GO...

  • mustardjunkie, I hear millions of crickets immediately following any of your post...

  • you have no respect for a rider who have won 7 times in a row?? dumbass...

  • Greg Strock has an equivolent VO2 capacity. (Lance's teammate in 1990 & 1991---and Greg had three National Titles, something Lance lacked)

    Oh, but he is still sick.

    It's all about the juice and the financial funding and a lotta luck recovering from illnesses.

  • I think hGh use belongs with the clinically diagnosed people that dont produce growth hormone.

  • are you greg lemond?

  • Standard Clinical Procedure in the United States for Human Growth Hormone administering for example, is 2-Years of testing to make sure the body is not producing growth hormone.

    Then, another 2-months of MRI's to make sure you dont have Cancer.

    hGh is a cellular accelerator. What does that mean? It means that when you use it, it increases the production of cells all throughout the body. If somone had cancer, it would rapidly accelerate the growth of the cancer.