Astana beans

[mrcharly-YHT]

What are they? I tried googling, but the only hits were for the cycling forum.

[Gus]

You better pm Andygates or the testpersons who tried them last year.
They where flying to Dunwich with eyes like this 

  Gus 

[Greenbank]

Some mints with added does of caffeine and ephedrine.

Would get you in trouble if you were a pro athlete but otherwise perfectly legal.

[Seineseeker]

Are they what vinokourov took? Make you go faster.

[Gus]

Keeps you going and going and going and Bonk.

G

[andygates]

Are they what vinokourov took? Make you go faster.

Not really, but he was in the news when I brewed them up so that's what I put on the tin.

I've got a Kazakhstan team hat now n'everything

[rogerzilla]

I understood they were a mythical substance consumed by all cyclists who are faster than you.

[Dave]

Can you, er, y'know, buy these things anywhere?

Or is there a recipe? 

[andygates]

The recipe includes one naughty (legally grey) ingredient and is pharmacologically active.  So, mods, would you prefer I didn't post it?

(ah, the great cycling tradition of performance-enhancing drugs continues)

[rogerzilla]

Selectively chopped from the "guidelines":

Please don't do anything that will get the admins into trouble.

And I'm one of them, so if you could take it somewhere less public it would be appreciated