Bike Racing

[PeteS]

Allegedly Thomas is blaming (as in I'm not blaming but I am mentioning it...) bicarbonate of soda.

Well I hope that didn't arrive in a Jiffy bag. Could have easily just popped into Aldi. (Graham, it's like Booths but affordable!)
I've heard of various legally allowed supposedly performance enhancing substances but this is a new one on me. I just use it for baking and removal of shoe odour!

I've been trying to come up with an analogy with other sports events where an individual stage could be decided on choice of equipment but not allowed during the race. The only similarly I can think of is rallying where tyre choice before a stage is paramount especially in mixed terrain. Driver ability, car technology etc all tactics worked out in advance to deliver the fastest time. I like the simplicity and the fact it doesn't necessarily favour the team with the largest budget. Indeed, the driver needs to deliver and that's surely what bike racing is about too?