Controversial British cycling champion David Millar, who once served a two-year ban for doping offences, is the Bermuda Bicycle Association's guest speaker at their annual general meeting (AGM) this weekend.

Millar, who rides for Team Slipstream, the outfit Bermuda cycling Tyler Butterfield represented until recently, will speak at the AGM on Saturday night at the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club in Paget.

Organiser Neil de ste Croix is a friend of Slipstream boss Johnny Vaughters, who spoke last year at the AGM. He said: "We are always looking for a good articulate speaker and he suggested David. He's a fascinating guy."

Certainly Millar, who has won three Tour De France stages, should be entertaining having a reputation for being quite outspoken. And he managed the feat of fighting his way back to the top of the sport after his ban.

His current team emphasise their anti-drugs stance by offering continual forensic evidence its riders are clean.

Millar blamed his drug use on immense pressure put on him by bosses at his former team Cofidis.

In an interview with The Guardian in 2004 he said he had to feign illness and abandon races to get rest. "I said to Cofidis that I needed to race less but there were always riders who were injured or ill."

He was so fed up he nearly quit the sport in 2000 after finishing the Tour De France. Drug use followed shortly afterwards when he began using the blood booster erythropoietin (EPO) when he crashed but had to carry on despite his injuries.

He said: "In cycling you only stop if you've broken something. I had 10 days of atrocious suffering on a physical level and most of all on a mental level." So he bought a $500 syringe of the drug off a fellow cyclist who showed him how to inject it into the shoulder.

"I took EPO because I knew that the Cofidis team was going to the Tour of Spain on condition that I started and got a result. No one had any need to put pressure on me but I felt it. I was not happy in my life.

"I had based everything on my sporting career and I only saw myself as a cyclist and I thought people only saw me like that."

The pressure saw his mental state worsen and seek medical help from a doctor who helped him detoxify his liver.

Full of shame he kept some of the empty EPO syringes to remind himself of his personal failures.

In 2004 he was suspended for two years by British Cycling, stripped of his World Time Trial Championship and was fired by Cofidis along with others caught up in the scandal.

He and nine others were taken to court by French authorities but his charges were dropped after lack of evidence the offences had taken place on French soil.

Since completing the 2007 Tour De France he has been a public opponent of the use of drugs in cycling while his professional careers is on the up having won both the British National Road Race and the British National Time Trial Championship.

Millar, a Scot, will also host a clinic for some of Bermuda's junior riders this weekend.