Originally Posted by Litespud

Tyler Hamilton's book The Secret Race is a pretty decent description of what motivated at least one rider get into doping, and of the doping routines used by US Postal in it's various incarnations. Certainly in the case of US Postal, the doping was backed up by comprehensive crit testing etc to monitor the biological effects of the doping. Michele Ferrari may have been an unscrupulous cheat, or cheat-facilitator, but he clearly know how to administer dope effectively