i take back...

everything i have said about floyd landis. i have read more interviews with the guy. really looked into his 'personality' if you will. and i take it all back.

i started to not care for him, for some shots, it seems that he would take at lance. but who cares? lance is just than anal. and who else is? if lance wasn't a pro, he'd be the guy i'd make fun of at rides. the exactness of it. i once heard, and i kid you not, a guy say at a ride that if you rear tire had more air in it than your front, you'll get a better, or faster ride out of your bike. now he's talking, just as an example, one twenty six in the front, and one thirty in the back. i'm pare-phrasing here, but you get the idea. randy and i still talk about this, when we head out on rides, and this was over a year ago. i also heard a guy say that 'you really need to stretch after this ride.' it was a metric century. my question is, 'you don't after other rides?' this is the kind of shit you hear. (i'm sure people make fun of me, but in some sense that is my purpose. steel bike. unshaved legs. a euro-cycling cap. short and stalky. i'm sure i get it.) and lance is this anal rider. hey, it worked for him, but would it work for others?

landis says, not me. great. so he goes on a team, where he wasn't even looking to be a leader, but has ended up in that role, and has accepted that. and just think of all the reporters asking him, in round about way, about lance. well you'd get sick of it too. so i say 'go landis.' kick ass at the tour. hey, he's got three wins under his belt already. he's been climbing up the g.c. go for it. i hope all the americans have a great freaking tour this year. go leipheimer. go hincapie. although i've heard talk of hincapie taking the reigns this year as team discovery's best chance at a tour win. i'm really not sure about that, but we'll see.

i believe that the two americans that have the best chance of winning is landis and leipheimer. looking at the g.c. from last year...you take out lance, that moves leipheimer up. take away what fuck nuts did on the last day last year, and that moves him up again. so that would put him in the top five. these two are my favorite americans to podium. and i have to go with basso to win.

viva la tour...