Stevie Blom

Mark whitehead has confirmed. stevie b.

Scott donaldson has confirmed he will be part of the car hire. (he cant access the net at work) stevie B

Hi all!!! Anyone that is going to Alpe duez and is on the following flights as below please reply to this message as some of us are getting together to book car rental! Flight Segment: Glasgow Terminal M To Manchester Terminal 3 Flight: BA1640 Cabin: Domestic Booking Status: Confirmed Departure: 17 Jul 2004 07:00 Arrival: 17 Jul 2004 08:10 Flight Operated By: SUBSIDIARY/FRANCHISE Flight Segment: Manchester Terminal 3 To Lyon Flight: BA7911 Cabin: Euro Traveller Booking Status: Confirmed Departure: 17 Jul 2004 10:25 Arrival: 17 Jul 2004 13:25 Flight Operated By: SUBSIDIARY/FRANCHISE Flight Segment: Lyon To Manchester Terminal 3 Flight: BA7912 Cabin: Euro Traveller Booking Status: Confirmed Departure: 24 Jul 2004 14:00 Arrival: 24 Jul 2004 15:00 Flight Operated By: SUBSIDIARY/FRANCHISE Flight Segment: Manchester Terminal 3 To Glasgow Terminal M Flight: BA1846 Cabin: Domestic Booking Status: Confirmed Departure: 24 Jul 2004 17:30 Arrival: 24 Jul 2004 18:40 Flight Operated By: SUBSIDIARY/FRANCHISE if you are booked on the same flight please contact myself or dougie mcfadzean asap. Time is getting on and we need to sort out car hire! Please note that we may need to hire 2 vehicle's such as a people carrier etc.... the sooner we have poeple's names the sooner we can make arrangements at Lyon Airport. If people do not reply to this will be left to find own tranportation. Names so far on the same flight as above are: stevie Blom Dougie mcfadzean Martin mulholland Alan yoeman scott donaldson mark whitehead Stevie B. Please confirm PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi all, Good report on our female members of the club!!!! Kelly and kerry plus a report on Ali Winship. Stevie

Hi all, Just had a ganders at the Paisley Express this morning. I has a nice section about Sean gray and his superb Time trial last week saturday. Page 17 , plus it has some reports about the TLI APR race at barmill. Stevie

Vicky i have asked this to our pc wizard iain laing before and told NO!! sorry but i will bring it up on the next meeting as an idea. Stevie b.

Vicky i cant dance to save me self but like anything i will give it a try. you mean saturday the 17th? I will ask any1 else if they fancy it..... Stevie B.

i will try for thursday . stevie

Hi all, Just bought the paisley express this morning and they have 2 section in the sport pages. 1 about katrina along with scott D and kelly v.d.t. etc. 2 part is about the vets section tli 2 weeks ago. Great reports for all to see. Stevie

Had a brief look at the following website:: (the old copy and paste comes in handy eh) Cyclists 'cheat dope tests' Gaumont has detailed a litany of cheating methods in cycling Cyclists have rendered advances in drug testing meaningless with methods designed to evade controls, according to the French rider Philippe Gaumont. Gaumont has told the French newspaper Le Monde that he has taken drugs in all but one of his 10 years in the sport. He said the blood-boosting drug EPO has been replaced by transfusions as a method of increasing endurance. The former Cofidis rider went on to list a series of methods used to illegally boost cyclists' performance. Gaumont is under investigation by police for possession of drugs in an inquiry into drug-taking in the Cofidis team. "First off, there are products that they don't know how to detect, like growth hormones, which cyclists can use as they like," Gaumont was quoted as saying. He added that blood transfusions had become popular to boost red blood cell counts - and therefore the blood's capacity to carry oxygen - because of a test introduced three years ago to detect EPO. The test only works if the drug has been used within the previous three days, so EPO is used only when a cyclist knows he will not be tested. Only the big names can use [blood transfusions] because you have to pay a doctor to do them Philippe Gaumont "The tests occur during training and races," Gaumont is quoted as saying. "Every rider knows that intravenous erythropoietin (EPO) stays for three days in the urine. So you just have to act consequently and stop the treatment three days before the test. "And the effect of EPO is still effective 10 days after you take it." He added: "The haematocrit [blood thickness count] of a cyclist coming to the Tour [de France] can drop from 50% to 44 or 45 after a week. "With one bag of blood a week, a cyclist can keep it at 50, while the other guys finish the tour at 40%. "But only the big names can use this because you have to pay a doctor to do the transfusions." Gaumont also said cyclists use false prescriptions to permit the use of banned cortico-steroids. "The team doctor sends you to an allergy specialist, he diagnoses that you are sensitive to mites and prescribes a nasal spray," he said. "We were told to ask for Nasacort, at all costs. Why? Because it means you can use cortisone. At the control they can't tell the difference between the spray and an injection. "Then the doctor sends you to a dermatologist. "You scratch your testicles with salt, show the doctor they're all red, and he prescribes you six months' worth of Diprosone cream. Then you can inject Diprostene [a banned liquid suspension] without risking being positive." Will this guy have many friends in cycling after that comment? Stevie B.

derek , I turned up at the main entrance for 3pm and waited till 315pm. i had just finished my training run so it was better off that i did not do the test in the end. I had my bike with me so no sporty shoes on me at the time. i will get back to you when i can hopefully soon to sort out another time? stevie b.

JUST HAD A BUTCHERS AT THE SPORTS PAGES IN TODAYS PAISLEY EXPRESS. IT HAS A WONDERFULL ARTICLE ABOUT THE 2UP AT DRYBRIDGE A FEW WEEKS AGO. ILL BRING THE PAPER DOON THE CLUB HOUSE THIS FRIDAY FOR ANY1 TO HAVE A GANDERS AT. STEVIE B.

thank god for that kenny mac eh martin muholland gets it yeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaa unless another mounted bike part is being made up for some other idea?? stevie

ohhhhhh its like the new year who will post the 2000!!!!! its no me is it

when where why who etc.... i would like to help you out derek but it all depends on time's etc. Not confident if my work will allow me to leave i.e. during the day for an hr..... let me asap. Cheers Stevie Blom

Heard it kenny, by the time you put yourself to that test im sure you will have burried yer sell on that turbo o' yours in the hoos over many sessions. Johan

Must say some interesting reply's from you all Its been good reading gordons view and then again kenny and alans view. Get a difference of opinion , are cheats or just under great pressure to achieve success. So if you get your condition to a maximum and you train to your limit and you cant get any better what do you do ??? you find out your competitors are on drugs and they faster and stronger?? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cycling's grim tale As the cycling world reels from the news of Marco Pantani's death, let us not forget the passing of Belgian amateur cyclist Johan Sermon -- or Spanish climbing genius Jose Maria Jimenez, Frenchman Fabrice Salanson, Dutch rider Michel Zanoli and Italian trio Marco Ceriani, Marco Rusconi and Denis Zanette. Eight unexplained cycling deaths in 13 months. The Grim Reaper, it seems, has a new favourite sport. Pantani autospy investigation ongoing PANTANI: Riders & friends react Medical examiners said Monday that full disclosure on Marco Pantani's autopsy will take weeks, but that two elements have emerged: "bleeding in the head and the lungs," according to Italian pathologist Giuseppe Fortuni. "At this point, we can rule out violence, but we will investigate everything else." "No hypothesis has been excluded," added Fortuni, leaving the door open on a rumoured assumption of suicide. "Physically, Marco was very strong. Psychologically, he was not," Dr. Massimo Besnati, the president of the Italian association of cycling physicians, said in Italian daily La Stampa. "His emotional decline since 1999 showed his fragility, his need for help." For Pantani, suicide is a tragic possibility -- but it's at least a tangible one. The question coursing through cycling is "Why?" For the seven deaths preceding Pantani, there is no answer. All seven were felled by apparent heart failure, their death certificates labelled "natural causes." There is nothing natural about seven active or recently retired cyclists, ranging between 16 and 35 years of age, hit by heart attacks. The assumption, of course, is drugs, a monkey that has sat upon the sport's back since 1998 and the Festina-infested Tour de France. The drug busting of the French Festina squad -- a high-profile formation boasting a former world champion (Laurent Brochard), a Tour de France mountain king (Richard Virenque) and a perennial major-tour favourite (Alex Zulle) -- showed the grim face of cycling: a sport with a drug habit that was cultivated and condoned at all levels, from the riders to their national federations, according to Paul Kimmage, a former professional and the author of 1990's "Rough Ride," the first of now many tell-all books on cycling's drug addiction. By coming clean -- Kimmage is candid about his own drug use -- the Irishman had grand visions of being a catalyst for sweeping change. Instead, he was blacklisted by his former teammates and coaches, his book was lambasted as the "rantings of a failed cyclist" and he was accused of searching for notoriety through scandal. "I was very naive," he says. With cycling's morgue still working overtime, Kimmage's words have been proven hauntingly prescient. And despite recent drug clean-up assurances from the UCI (cycling's governing body), no one, it seems, heeded Kimmage's alarm. EPO STRIKES AGAIN? The first spate of cycling deaths occurred in the late 1980's and early 1990's, when scores of mostly Dutch and Belgian cyclists fatally tinkered with the novel blood-doping agent EPO. Used uncontrolled, EPO puts a horrific strain on an athlete's heart. Oversaturated with oxygen-carrying red blood cells, blood can become like molasses, clogging the heart until the blood stops flowing. The drug, however, is no longer new; cycling's scientists, it was thought, had perfected its administration, making EPO "no more dangerous than orange juice," as Dr. Michele Ferrari, an Italian who was the chemical architect behind some of cycling's most notorious teams, once told the French sports daily L'Equipe. If that's the case, then what is happening now? Maybe the long-term effects of EPO abuse have now arrived -- a hypothesis that sticks for the December, 2003 deaths of Spaniard Jose Maria-Jimenez (aged 32) and Dutchman Michel Zanoli (35), both competitive during EPO's golden age. But what of Fabrice Salanson, Johan Sermon, Marco Rusconi and Marco Ceriani? At 23, 21, 24 and 16 respectively, the four were part of cycling's current and future generations. Is EPO back (or still) in vogue? Are cycling's back rooms filling with new drug cocktails? Whatever the answer, the consensus is sure: Zanette, Ceriani, Salanson, Rusconi, Jimenez, Zanoli, Sermon, Pantani... Coincidence is no longer a possibility. The old paste and copy is a handy tool stevie

Thanks for your input gordon!!

Former Tour de France winner Marco Pantani has died at the age of 34. Italian news agency Ansa reported that his body was found in a hotel room in Rimini. The causes of his death remain unknown, although police reports said no violence was involved. SAD LOSS IN MY OPNION!! STEVIE .b.

Kenny , Will you be doon the clubhouse tonight???? Stevie Blom

A big thanks to Jim Brogan for giving me a lift to Glengarnock! Must say that Glengarnock "rocks" compared to Houston!!! But i still think Houson has potential for improving on hill clime work. Cant wait for Glengarnock next week.. p.s. MAINTAIN THE STRAIN Stevie B.

Sean i did not realise your situation on the shop front , if you need the 2130 slot its no problem , i cant tell when ill be back from work it could be 7pm who knows. Thanks paul (banana man) Stevie .B.

I propose the following: 1 Sean 19:00 2 Darryl 19:30 3 Paul mcd 20:00 4 Scott D 20:30 5 Stu D 21:00 6 Stevie B 21:30 I am working late on friday so i reckon its best if i go last to save any problems. Any that would like an earlier time please change the order. Cheers Stevie .B.

Well its wednesday folks and not many reply's to what people want to do this week ??? Please let me know if its either Houston or Glengarnock? I know paul myself wee mark whitehead and martin are up for either and if no 1 reply's then it will be houston this week. Cheers stevie .b.

Stevie blom's details as follows: Age: 25 Sex: male Weight: 100kg .............84kg Sorry for all you folks that dont work in metric , its continental style Stevie .b.