“I have raced for 30 years and there will always be cheats,” he says. “There always have been cheats, more so back in the 1980s and 1990s, especially when we went off to race on the continent, and more so the higher up you went. But I don’t think there is a culture of it in the UK amateur scene. And if I did think it was a major problem I would not be wasting my time with all the youngsters we have in our team. I would be advising them not to waste their time either.”