anyone follow road bike racing? Lance...

[joel]

Wins the Prologue stage of the Tour by over 2 seconds. Awesome!

 

[WadePatton]

I ride

road and mountain. I race NORBA beginner when the weather is a bit cooler.



I like to see the Tour when I'm somewhere that receives it, but I don't "follow" pro racing.



Lance is the man. Read his book. Drink some Shiner Bock.



Ever in this area I'll show you the trails. I raced Tsali, Sewanee, and LBL this year. Lock 4 was too hot. Ocoee was too wet. And I had the flu for Chickasaw. I'm a good solid mid-packer--years of experience but never enough conditioning.



Next year I plan to race all those events. I do metrics and centuries in between MTB events.



Photo of me on my off-road ride at QRZ.com --look up my callsign "W1ADE"



Fat tires rule

 

[T-Ricky]

Bicycle racing is finally getting a little recognition. It's always amazed me that a sport that almost everyone in this country has been involved with at some time in their life has such a small following. Maybe Lance needs to put out some $300 shoes then the kids could steal them from each other.



My wife and I are big fans. Lance is amazing. I would put his conditioning up against any athlete, he would win hands down. OK maybe he would throw his hands in the air.



We ride a Litespeed tandem about 8 to 10 K a year. Do a couple of time trials and several long distance events a year. Won the mixed tandem Cochise County Classic in 02. A little 252 mile race.



Rick T.

 

[klenger]

The prolouge is a time trial, so it's the rider against the clock. Can't get any help from the team-mates in a time trail. I guess that that means that Lance must be pretty strong again this year.



He wrote a book. I think the name is "It's not about the bike" or something like that.

 

[T-Ricky]

Lance should have no problem this year barring an accident or illness. After todays stage he is right where he should be 3 seconds back with Laurent Jalabert ahead, with everything to lose. Jalabert's team will have to do a little work the next few stages.



If anyone want's to here a live feed of the racing try www.letour.fr/2002/us .



Rick T