throughout the 1990s cyclists and their teams worked hard to cover up the increasing use of performance-enhancing drugs. their job was made easier by the fact that the drug of choice in the pell o'-ton at the time, the blood booster e.p.o., was undetectible. so popular was epo, that the peloton invented a term for riders who didn't use it. >> the translation was riding on bread and water. the italian term is pan e agua. so, yeah, i guess for the first few months of the '97 season, i was riding on pan e agua, bread and water. >> like many top racers, tyler