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    LeMond: If You See THIS They’re Doping



    Greg LeMond joined Anthony on the Roadman Cycling Podcast to talk about life, career and doping.

    You can check out the full interview here

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    32 Comments

    4. @MilanSteijn-n2v on

      Greg is just a bitter old man who wants us to believe that he was the greatest US cyclist ever. Lance started winning races when HCT could not be above 50.9. In a way that leveled the playing field. If any riders should have their TDF victories taken away it should be Pantani, Ulrich, Riis, and Indurain because we have no idea how much higher their HCT was then all others. Too bad LA could not be nice to people as Georgie always advised😀

    5. @Bogart1971 on

      Started watching video. Haven't seen lemond in a long time just old footage. As I'm watching i realized it was him. Huge inspiration had his photo in my locker in the 80s .Just got back into riding.

    6. @ryankeels4661 on

      Sounds a lot like bro science, I've seen him do this a lot… any thing that varies he will take any outliers and claim its a sign of doping. He used VO2max/FTP… but his logic didn't transfer to Eddy vs Him only vs Lance.

    10. @PeacefulRallyCar-pw3cs on

      With a bicycle, you can see the gears. If a rider is on peds or a motor, he can't go to a longer gear because anyone can see the sprockets. The only way to use those watts is a higher cadence.

    18. @ZENmud on

      ??? Greg once wrote "no clean rider can beat a doping rider in the Tour de France" (Paraphrased).

      Then he beat Laurent Fignon, who later admitted being doped.

      Twenty(?) years later, I'm still trying to understand.

    19. @Thomas-fy9yc on

      Have nothing against Greg, but this is oversimplifying something and in turn over generalizing .
      As long as there has been games, people have ways to get an edge of the competition, and many of those don’t become illegal until someone realizes the advantages they provide.

    20. @tasty_fish on

      Respect Greg, I grew up in his era and he is a hero, but I think things have evolved since his time in terms of gearing, weight, aerodynamics, even tyre width and pressure, which all helps improve efficiency and speed

    21. @brianb2634 on

      I think short cranks for everyone is marketing BS. In the seventies there were a series of articles in Bicycling magazine called the Long Crank Controversy. They were advocating for longer cranks. In an 1974 Yankee magazine there was an article about James Farnsworth who held the Mt Washington climb record at the time. He was a ski videographer who used cycling as off season conditioning, he was not a racer. He had bike a bike with 240mm cranks. I ran into him in Sarasota Florida December 1999 and I rode his custom bike with a high BB and a long wheelbase which are needed to accommodate the long cranks. I had no discomfort from the length but unfortunately there are no steep climbs in the area. I had read that riding higher gears is ergonomically efficient but spinning is more metabolically efficient. I think it is only more metabolically efficient to spin because most people currently train that way. I believe that people who are not riding stage races or sprinting, don't get great benefit from spinning, it is just current fashion. Everybody has different genetics and some people benefit from slow cadence high gears and others high cadence low gear ratios. I hate spinning myself and 175mm cranks work great. Higher RPMs means more changes in direction of your legs which lead to lower ergonomic efficiency. Some people might be able to pedal perfect circles but I don't. I find lower gearing allows me to actually pull up the back half of the stroke. When I spin I think I have more losses in the back stroke because I am not able to pull up effectively at high RPMs. Merckx was a gear masher on the steep climbs, I don't think he used any gears lower than 42/24 or 47 inches and he did fine climbing.

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