Quote Originally Posted by Lifesgreat View Post
Wow! At the rate they are dropping from the TdF, I shoulda entered! I would have podiumed ...
This is what I was thinking the other day.
I mean, If 25 years ago I toured all through France alone with a loaded bike including a tent and prepared almost all my own food (even to growing alfalfa sprouts hanging from a nylon tied under the saddle and rinsed every few hours)...
Who knows what I would be able to do *now* on a perfect road bike maintained by expert mechanics to the last millimetre, hotel accomodation, support car(s), etc

ring-ring....ring-ring....ring-ring

Sorry, gotta go...it's The Telephone