"Their riders tell them," did nothing to explain the actual process to Aivas.

"I've had riders tell me they're ready to sell their homes and move out of here," Giovanni said yesterday.

The commission said the only way riders could tell whether a meter has been converted would be by how it registered.

He said no other riders had told him they were taking banned drugs.

It looks like a dangerous sport, and the diminutive riders tell of falling a lot.

It was so intensely cold that the riders couldn't tell if their hats were on without feeling for them.

But this is what the riders told us they wanted.

One rider told a television crew he wanted somebody's head on a spike.

'They took but three hundred riders with them all told.'

"I'm waiting hopefully for the results of the second test," the 28-year-old rider told Spanish reporters.