In what way good? Good example of a straw man argument, or good example of missing the point?—Just

I don’t know either. And, if you spend a few seconds reading what I wrote instead of what Pat read, you’ll find that I didn’t.—Just

But which god is greatest? In the minds of most cyclists there is only one greatest, and that is Eddy Merckx. You don’t need to be a pro ball player to cheer on your team, you don’t need to be a pro golfer to cheer on Tiger Woods, you don’t need to be a Formula 1 driver to cheer on Michael Schumacher. Fans have favourites, and that means taking a partisan view. I challenge you to find a single armchair footballer whose view of the game is entirely untainted by team bias :-)—Just

The quotes are superfluous, my name really is Guy. True, I haven’t ridden a bike for over two hours now, and I rarely ride much more than a hundred miles a week. I have only raced three times, and never in a road race (one track race on a recumbent, two cross-country races) but I am one of the fastest cyclists I know. Actually one of the reasons I think most of those guys are on drugs is that even when I was substantially fitter than I am now, working out for an average of at least an hour a day in the gym plus cycling 15 miles round trip to work every day, my flat-out speed on the road was still slower than Lance rides up mountains. Some of that will be genetic, some of it age, some of it training, but looking at the incredible increases in performance over very short periods (essentially zero in evolutionary terms) I can’t believe that no chemicals are involved. I could be wrong, but the periodic high-profile doping scandals suggest not.—Just