Can't believe what a hypocritical and arrogant defence that is. So PROCYCLING is saying it's ok for the Cycling community to show zero tolerance to doping, but PROCYCLING will set there own moral agenda on magazine sales and ex-pro (albeit a cheat) going cheap to provide the bike reviews. You patronise your readers and take our veiws for granted. Well I hope you can afford to be as two faced when sales dwindle. Why don't you get Frankie Andreu to write a review on EPO -v- Testosterone for performance, taste and cost, afterall he is qualified, being an ex-pro cyclist.

Moral agenda! It's just a bike mate you want to calm down a bit.

It's actually a pretty good review. But then I'm not surprised. I've got plenty of mates who take drugs and ride bikes and they certainly know their stuff when it comes to kit.

I also think your idea of an EPO v Testosterone would make and excellent test.

Hey PhilHays, are you sure your real name isn't Mr Lance Armstrong???????

I've got no time for dopers, but it's not as if he's trying to win the tour de france seven times in a row while telling us all he is the worlds greatets living athlete while jacking up..................now that would deserve being strung up by the mutsnuts.

But all he is doing is telling us what he thinks of very expensive bikes, which he is more qualified to do than any of us, having rode them for a living. If you really want to get me started, ask why procycling review 5 grand bikes instead of ones i can afford and want to buy!!!!!!!!!! I'd love to know if i should buy an £800 scott, trek, Giant, Focus....................

If magazines such as 'Pro Cycling' truly wanted to take the real moral high ground they should surely stop writing about and in turn serving the commercial interests of riders, teams and managers known or strongly suspected to be involved in doping. However, I wonder what they would fill their pages with if they could no longer write about US Postal/ Discovery, Armstrong, Landis, Basso, Ullrich, Vinokourov, Kashechkin, Mayo and come to that the great majority of people involved in the meaningless circus that professional cycling has become?

As to employing Andreu. Good on them. At least he has had the balls to come clean as to his activities in the past. I also feel much of the criticism is motivated by those who resent the way Andreu (and of course his wife) have played such an important role in the exposure of the reality behind the Armstrong myth.

My only problem with Frankie doing the bike tests is his size. Many bikes at the top of the size range will handle differenrlt to the more common 56cm and 58cm models. I had a similar problem with Chris Boardman. Every time he tested a custom bike it was to his rather strange (to the average rider) requirments. Please keep Marcel on for as long as you can.

I second the post re cheaper bikes. Cycling + covers the range up to £1500 fairly well but can Procycling have a look at some in the £1500 to £2500 range which is what many are buying now.

Like most of us who raced or supported the racers, I've know Frankie for years. Everyone in the racing community respected Frankie Andreu. You never heard a bad word about him. We all enjoyed his work on-screen after he retired. He's not a devious guy; you don't feel that there's an agenda or that he's being anything but forthright.

If I had a son, I'd be delighted if he were Frankie Andreu.

If Frankie made a mistake, if he weakened and reached out for illicit assistance, he's not the first of us to do so. All human bike riders suffer the occasional bad patch. Congratulations to Procycling for hiring him.

Go Frankie!

Jeez, why don't PROCYCLING and Frankie Andreu just go get a room - it's embarrasing - ...!