DH's Dream Ride with Floyd Landis

[Jiffer]

We saw Floyd Landis at a sort of clinic at our LBS shop Thurs night. DH was the first person the LBS owner called. I guess we've spent enough money there! It was pretty cool. Heard about his cycling journey and the Tour de France. He wasn't allowed to talk about anything having to do with the trial, but it was cool to see he was just a regular friendly guy.

This morning, there was an organized ride with Floyd. I was SO bummed I couldn't go. Recovering from a minor surgery. We considered riding tandem, but I didn't want to hold DH back at all. I wanted to give him the best chance to be in front with Lloyd as possible. And he was. He's SO stoked. At first he was literally in the front of the pack, with Lloyd right behind him. He didn't want to be in the pack because he wanted to be able to take lots of pictures, which he did. There was a police escort stopping traffic for the lead riders, so they never had to stop.

They started in Rialto, and rode up to the ranger station at Lytle Creek(for anyone who's familiar). The farther they got, several people dropped off from the lead group, but DH was right there. There were about 5 of them. At one point, they all decided to pass Floyd just for fun. They did so and held about 22 mph uphill, feeling pretty good about themselves. Of course, he blew by them like they were standing still. The farther they got, DH was starting to feel pretty tired. He knew the ranger station wasn't too far, though, so he decided to give it all he had. He ended up passing everyone, including Floyd. And, again, Floyd pulverizes him. As Floyd passed, DH says, "I just wanted to say I passed Floyd Landis!"

Later, one of the guys says to DH, "What were you thinking? Attacking Floyd Landis?!" He just shrugged. "I don't know!" In talking with Floyd about the end of their ride, Floyd says to DH, "That was pretty impressive!".

So, DH is on cloud 9 today. He had him autograph is bike, which after he did, everyone else started doing the same.

[snapdragen]

Very cool! Can we see the pictures?

[bikerHen]

Wow! How cool! Nobody famous ever comes to Spokane. bikerHen

[teigyr]

VERY cool. I'm glad he was nice, he seems like he would be. What bike shop was it? Know the Lytle Creek area fairly well, used to do a lot of training rides around there

and pictures???

former Upland girl

[Kalidurga]

That is really awesome! I love that your DH passed him and made that comment. Floyd probabably loved it

[7rider]

Neat!!
I could see my own DH doing the same thing...
Yeah...we want to see pictures!

[mtkitchn]

How very cool!!! Thanks for sharing the story!