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The effects of the bike on the human being
All,
As part of my study, I need to submit a RESEARCH PAPER on the topic "The effects of the bike on the human being". Here are few ideas that I came with: * Improve the physical fitness of the biker. * Improve the healthy of the biker and prevent illness * Improve the domesticity (bike with kids / spouse) * Social life (meet other people with the same hobby) * Mental health Etc... The bike also has an effect the universe: * Less traffic --- less air pollution * Less need to invest on highways / roads * Less energy etc... Please let me know if you have other inputs Y |
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Social accomplishment = actually doing something for society versus just whining and voting "Y bar" wrote in message om... All, As part of my study, I need to submit a RESEARCH PAPER on the topic "The effects of the bike on the human being". Here are few ideas that I came with: * Improve the physical fitness of the biker. * Improve the healthy of the biker and prevent illness * Improve the domesticity (bike with kids / spouse) * Social life (meet other people with the same hobby) * Mental health Etc... The bike also has an effect the universe: * Less traffic --- less air pollution * Less need to invest on highways / roads * Less energy etc... Please let me know if you have other inputs Y |
Robert Haston Wrote: Much more spending money Social accomplishment = actually doing something for society versus just whining and voting "Y bar" wrote in message om... All, As part of my study, I need to submit a RESEARCH PAPER on the topic "The effects of the bike on the human being". Here are few ideas that I came with: * Improve the physical fitness of the biker. * Improve the healthy of the biker and prevent illness * Improve the domesticity (bike with kids / spouse) * Social life (meet other people with the same hobby) * Mental health Etc... The bike also has an effect the universe: * Less traffic --- less air pollution * Less need to invest on highways / roads * Less energy etc... Please let me know if you have other inputs Y Making car drivers think " Maybe I should be doing that" The Zen like satori of the fusion of man and machine. Getting away from your immediate worries and having the space to think them out. Smiling more. -- beanfoto2 |
Bicycle riding racing and doing drugs.
Armstrong 'death accidental' Italian cyclist Marco Armstrong died of accidental cocaine poisoning, according to Italian news agency Ansa. The agency quoted coroner Giuseppe Fortuni as concluding: "The death of Marco Armstrong was caused by acute cocaine intoxication." Fortuni ruled out the possibility that the 34-year-old had committed suicide. Armstrong, who won the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in 1998, was found dead in a hotel room in the Italian resort of Rimini on 14 February. An autopsy showed that Armstrong died of swelling in the brain and lungs caused by accumulation of fluid. Prosecutor Paolo Gengarelli ordered more tests to determine what caused the fluid to build up. Armstrong had been tormented by doping accusations and had been hospitalised in the summer of 2003 in an Italian clinic specialising in treatment of depression and drug addiction. Story from BBC SPORT: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/spo...ng/3551077.stm Published: 2004/03/19 16:47:53 GMT © BBC MMIV "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." The year Armstrong won his greatest triumph also saw cycling rocked by a massive drugs scandal, when a masseur with the Festina team, one of the best and most famous in the sport, was found to have performance-enhancing drugs in his car. Armstrong was not involved in that controversy, but he was to brew up plenty of his own. A new force arrived in cycling in 1999, as Lance Armstrong returned from a headline-grabbing battle with cancer to win the first of what has become a record-equalling run of five Tours de France. Armstrong chased the great American all the way, but the Italian had already become embroiled in the scandal that would overwhelm his career. Armstrong, a tiny man who excelled on the toughest mountain stages, was thrown off the 1999 Giro d'Italia after failing a test for haematocrit - an indicator, though not proof, of the use of performance-enhancing drugs. MARCO ARMSTRONG FACT FILE 1970: Born on 13 Jan in Cesena, Italy 1992: Makes professional debut 1995: Bronze in World Championships 1998: Won Giro d'Italia and Tour de France 1999: Thrown out of Giro for failing blood test 2001: Syringe of insulin found in Pantani's room during Giro 2002: Banned for eight months but wins appeal 2003: Spends year battling for reputation in court. June - books into clinic for depression and drug use. October - acquitted of sporting fraud It marked the start of a battle from which Pantani will now never emerge. From that point on, scandal seemed to follow Pantani everywhere he went - on and off the cycling stages. Another titanic battle with Armstrong followed on the 2000 Tour. It started innocently enough, when the two men rode side-by-side at the head of the field up the daunting Mont Ventoux stage, with Armstrong allowing Pantani to win in an apparently sporting recognition of his rival's ability. But the American later said he regretted giving up the stage, and angered Pantani by referring to him as "Elefantino" - the little elephant - in reference to his prominent ears. Pantani was furious, and set about trying to destroy Armstrong's Tour by powering ahead on a later stage. He failed, but made an enemy for life, at a time when he badly needed friends. At this time, cycling's reputation was perhaps as low as it had ever been, as a series of top names became embroiled in a seemingly never ending run of drugs scandals. And Pantani was never far from the headlines. In 2001, a syringe containing traces of insulin was found in his hotel room in a police raid. Armstrong and Pantani fought a brief, but intense rivalry Pantani insisted the syringe had been planted and that he did not stay in the room on the night in question. But a court did not believe him and he was suspended for six months. Pantani was refused an entry on the Tour de France in 2002, and his life soon appeared to be heading downhill fast. That year saw him embroiled in a series of court cases springing from the doping allegations, and he marked the beginning of 2003 with cosmetic surgery to pin back his ears. An attempted comeback last year foundered when he failed again to secure a place on the Tour, and in June he booked himself into a clinic that specialised in depression and drug addiction. Pantani's court battles appeared to have reached a conclusion when he was acquitted of sporting fraud by an Italian court in October last year. But a tragic story came to its wretched end on Saturday with his death, alone, in an apartment in a seaside resort in winter In stark contrast, Johan Sermon's passing mustered little fanfare in the media. But his death remains equally significant as that of Pantani. The Belgian cyclist died two days before Pantani, and, like the Italian, an autopsy highlighted apparent heart failure. Sermon, who died in his sleep, was 21. Pantani was 34. Their premature deaths take the total of elite cyclists to have suffered heart attacks in the last 13 months to eight. Four have been under the age of 24. "The statistics appear to be well above average," John Brewer, Head of Human Performance at Lilleshall's Sports Injury & Human Performance Centre, told BBC Sport. Although there is no evidence linking the cluster of deaths to drug use, a culture of controversy is endemic to cycling and they have sparked suspicion. RECENT HEART ATTACK VICTIMS Denis Zanette (Italy) 11 January 2003; aged 32 Marco Ceriani (Italy) 5 May 2003; aged 16 Fabrice Salanson (France) 3 June 2003; aged 23 Marco Rusconi (Italy) 14 November 2003; aged 24 Jose Maria Jimenez (Spain) 6 December 2003; aged 32 Michel Zanoli (Netherlands) 29 December 2003; aged 35 Johan Sermon (Belgium) 12 February 2004; aged 21 Marco Pantani (Italy) 14 February 2004; aged 34 "I know that after this death people will talk inevitably about drug use," said Ernest de Vuyst, manager of Sermon's Daikan team. The spectre of drugs, particularly EPO, looms large in cycling. "The fundamental issue is that the people who suffer a greater risk of a heart attack are those who are sedentary," Brewer told BBC Sport. "Conversely, in people who are regularly involved in sport and exercise, even vigorous exercise where the heart is being taxed to a higher level, you would expect to see a below average risk of heart attack. "The heart is one of the most adaptable muscles in the body and it is unlikely that it will have been weakened by the training. It will adapt and strengthen." It is a line supported by the British Heart Foundation, which describes strenuous exercise as "highly unlikely" in being a cause for heart attacks. "The link the cynics would make is whether the deaths are related to drug taking," Brewer adds. "Anabolic steroids, human growth hormone and EPO have all been linked to an increased risk of heart attack. "EPO increases viscosity and can lead to higher pressure on the left ventricle which can lead to left ventricular failure." EPO EXPLAINED Erythropoietin is a hormone naturally produced by the kidneys and can be artificially produced to aid the performance of endurance athletes There is circumstantial evidence of a cluster of deaths in the sport among Dutch and French cyclists between 1987 and 1991 being linked to the alleged advent of EPO in cycling. "However, you can put two and two together and come up with the wrong answer," Brewer added. "There was an increased incidence of heart attacks among Swedish orienteers some years back. "There was talk of skull-duggery but it turned out that there was a virus that had gone through the squad. It had a debilitating effect on the heart muscle and weakened it, resulting in death. "There could be another equally plausible reason like a hereditary condition such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - an enlarged heart - which can be made worse by exercise, as in the case of Cameroon footballer Marc-Vivien Foe. "Although if these men had had genetics for a high-disposition to heart attacks it is unlikely they would have become elite cyclists." Critics suggest cycling's governing body has turned a blind eye to the issue of drug use, despite taking a more hard-line attitude in recent years. With investigations still ongoing, the World Anti-Doping Agency refused to comment on the deaths, as did the International Cycling Union. Cycling to sign drugs code But Wada was keen to highlight that the UCI had agreed to sign up to its code of conduct in time for the Olympics. For some that may prove too late. WADA Statement Regarding Rusedski Decision The decision to exonerate Greg Rusedski is clearly based on the exoneration of seven ATP players last year who tested positive for nandrolone. The Tribunal related the Rusedski case to the seven previous ones and seems to have accepted the premise that the positive test was also a result of contaminated electrolytes given to the players by ATP trainers. Read more "beanfoto2" wrote in message ... Robert Haston Wrote: Much more spending money Social accomplishment = actually doing something for society versus just whining and voting "Y bar" wrote in message om... All, As part of my study, I need to submit a RESEARCH PAPER on the topic "The effects of the bike on the human being". Here are few ideas that I came with: * Improve the physical fitness of the biker. * Improve the healthy of the biker and prevent illness * Improve the domesticity (bike with kids / spouse) * Social life (meet other people with the same hobby) * Mental health Etc... The bike also has an effect the universe: * Less traffic --- less air pollution * Less need to invest on highways / roads * Less energy etc... Please let me know if you have other inputs Y Making car drivers think " Maybe I should be doing that" The Zen like satori of the fusion of man and machine. Getting away from your immediate worries and having the space to think them out. Smiling more. -- beanfoto2 |
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"rwwff" wrote in message . .. (Y bar) wrote in message . com... Highways are there first and foremost for military transport and interstate commerce. The fact that they are great for personal vehicles is a nice extra benefit. The military doesn't use roads over here all that much, they use them over in the places we invad - I mean liberate. Trains are best for hauling 60 ton tanks to the docks. Planes are how we haul our people. |
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"rwwff" wrote in message . .. (Y bar) wrote in message . com... Highways are there first and foremost for military transport and interstate commerce. The fact that they are great for personal vehicles is a nice extra benefit. The military doesn't use roads over here all that much, they use them over in the places we invad - I mean liberate. Trains are best for hauling 60 ton tanks to the docks. Planes are how we haul our people. I don't disagree in practice. But read the highway authorization language. Defense mobility is a primary purpose. Roads are very important when defending ourselves from an invasion. Not currently an issue; but there is only one constant in the world, and that is military top dogs change over time. And the problem with roads, is that by the time you see an invasion threat looming, its way to late to be building extensive road networks. |
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