What could have been and what about the consequences? Scott Mercier wasn't going to go down the doping road and turned his back on a US Postal professional career. But there is more to the man from Colorado as Ed Hood found out.

PEZ first spoke to Tony Cruz when he was still a rider, back in 2006, even one of his bikes has featured in Readers' Rigs. So, it's well past time Ed Hood caught up with the ex pro.