Seems like more and more riders are either coming clean or being busted for doping. For the purpose of discussion, let's say that the 2008 cycling season will be one where the field is actually dope free. How would racing change, if at all? Slow races? Shorter stages in the grand tours? More conservative riding? None of the above? Discuss.

The speeds we've seen and are still seeing will be restricted to motorized vehicles and true extraterrestrials.

Buy the Red Zinger/Coors Classic DVD (http://www.velogear.com/prodinfo.asp?number=D+ZCD). If those guys were doping, it was for fun, not performance. Especially the early days (George Mount, "Team Cool Gear," etc.)

You've got to love the haircuts, the aviator glasses (no Oakleys for another decade) and the jerseys. Excellent racing and they even give the women (especially Connie C.) some screen time.

And the racing is definitely worth watching despite the primitive state of chemical enhancements.

http://images.velonews.com/images/news/9452.13715.t.jpg

If doping was removed (assuming that were somehow possible), there would simply be a new equilibrium in the peloton. Racing would essentially be the same although a bit slower.

It won't change. People will still accuse the winner of any race of doping. Any rider who shows domination over the field will be accused of doping.