Originally Posted by don d.

Flaneur, I have yet to hear one credible, documented instance of a patron engaging in an act of intimidation comparable to this. The patron traditionally polices the peleton or other riders with regards to race tactics or race etiquette or acts as a voice of the riders in matters of rider interests. What Armstrong was doing was motivated entirely by self interest and was wholly unrelated to the interests of the peleton, unless one considers silencing someone blowing the whistle on doping "in the riders interests".