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DISCLAIMER. MOUNTAIN BIKING CAN BE DANGEROUS. YOU JOIN US AT YOUR OWN RISK.

SAFETY BRIEFING.

  • Wear a helmet. Despite recent advances in medical science, brains still cannot be mended nor replaced.
  • Wear gloves or mitts. Hands often hit the ground first. Cuts and grazes invite infection and a hospital visit.
  • Wear eye protection, it only takes a twig or thorn to lose an eye. Crud catchers are a good idea in mucky weather.
  • When downhilling, for your own protection, allow plenty of space behind the rider in front.
  • Bring a bare minimum emergency tool kit and a spare inner tube.
  • Breakdowns are a bore. Plan not to have any by ensuring your bike is in perfect working order.
  • Punctures are also tedious. You can minimise them by fitting latex tubes, slime tubes or running tubeless tyres.

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(Ex)-local rider tests positive...

No - not an article about the 3/4s of us who would test positive for C2H5OH after each and every ride... Dan Staite. EPO and a compound that stops your dick from shrinking because of too many steroids.

Anybody remember him? I remember his name in the CCC time trial results from a while back and apparently he's still a 2nd Claim member of CCC.

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/british-cyclist-dan-staite-suspended-for-two-years-27208

http://www.bikeradar.com/blogs/article/dan-staites-epo-positive-27221

First time I can recall seeing a positive result from a cyclist competing at such a relatively low level since the early 90s when I was racing in Boston and people would hop themselves up on steroids to win a tub of energy drink powder...

Paul