Many moons ago, I had a friend who was a nuclear engineer at a power plant. His plant didn't have a separate computer network for the reactor simply because computers weren't allow to connect to the reactor. Anything piece of hardware with enough complexity to achieve Turing completeness was forbidden. When he wanted to add a monitoring circuit somewhere that included more than some piddly number of transistors, he had to document ever possible state that the system could enter.

We also occassionally use "light" as an antonym for "heavy".

I guess that I'm now officially paranoid. I misread the title as "NC State Police Create Most Powerful Positron Beam Ever". I then started to imagine the inevitable YouTube videos.

I agree. While there are always rookies entering the Tour with nothing more than what bike they could afford, powered by their aspirations, it will be the veterans like Lance that will be the contenders. Lance and all his buddies have the latest and greatest in gear. Lance chooses Trek, others choose Cannondale, Specialized, Lemond, Litespeed, etc. While the technology can go great lengths, it comes down to the ability of the rider to pull it out. In the end, it's the rider, not the bike.