The emails and tweets of from Grey Manrod Ass. have provided some of the funniest and most incisive comments on the malaise that has befallen professional cycling since the early 1990s.

Doping has long been rife in the peloton, but the misuse of rEPO really changed the game, and the more recent re-discovery of self-transfusion (synthetic EPO can now be identified by the dope-testers) creates a playing field levelled to the lowest common denominator. Moreover, as the recent hospitalisation of Ricardo Ricco demonstrates, such techniques do more than distort sporting perfomance: they can make you critically ill.

After a few days of quick-fire emailing and tweeting, Chade O. Grey and partner have been rather quiet. I miss them…

UPDATE:

See Neil Browne’s live chat with Chade…