This is just scratching the surface. The day to day of bike racing has always been brutal. There's illegal money deals in the peloton for points and wins.
Drugs are the smallest part of the big picture. And I don't blame the riders. The pressure to win or support the winners is so big. You don't turn yourself…

Hey now! I raced but my asshole factor was too low to ever win.

That was simply incredible. I'm eating my words and I'm so glad I decided to stay with this show.

Yeah I've got friends that do RAGBRSAI every other year.

No I haven't! FXX on Dish doesn't show the previews for some reason. At least here.

There were also a few mysterious deaths aka murders.

I thought you mentioned Lifeforce. Maybe I replied to the wrong post.

I didn't know that! That's great. He seems like a decent guy now. The winning pro cyclists are pretty foul guys on the tarmac.

And naked vampire girls!

He just got run over like 5 times. I think he's dead.

Ehh. I honestly don't care. No worse than The Badger who promised to ride for Lemmond and then attacked him because he changed his mind. Merckx was also a notorious ass (and doper). We just didn't have the internet to sit out the aggrieved's complaints.

Post WWI riders regularly use methamphetamine every grueling day. They drank wine and cognac and smoked cigarettes to "open" their lungs. Stages were up to 320 miles longs and riders had to carry spare tires, not tubes. They weren't allowed any outside assistance. One ride broke his frame, stopped at a blacksmith and…

Jerez this is getting way too weird. For the third time I'm reading a comment that coincides exactly with the movie.

One of the longest days of my life was spent in rainy Twin Falls Idaho. It was the last show of a tour and we were driving home afterwards. So no hotel room.

The truth is that the alcohol and drugs have almost always been a way to get through the drudgery.

Whoa fucking weird. Just above someone posted about Nude just as it played (I'm watching it while reading this) and while I read your post Thom is singing Follow Me Around.

A room and a car and a room and a car and a train and a car and a room.

We are on stage begging for applause because we are wracked with self doubt.

See the late great C Cornell.

Agreed. And it's mainly the interviews. I am on a crusade to teach our programmers how to interview.