If you’ve already seen and heard enough of Floyd Landis, well, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Landis’ book, “Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France,” comes out June 26 and he’ll immediately start a book-signing tour that will take him to bookstores across the country.
I’d expect Landis, and maybe co-author Lauren Mooney of Bicycling magazine, to appear on radio and TV talk shows at the same time.
And don’t leave out Landis’s doctor, Arnie Baker….
“I’ve ridden bicycles for years and have been taken off Route 1 once in a helicopter and twice in ambulances as a result of biking accidents with vehicles.”
Delaware Environmental Control Secretary John Hughes …
STE. GENEVIEVE, MO. — We rode up along the Mississippi River to Ste. Genevieve to waves and some applause. If we had festooned our bikes with flags, the people lining the streets might have thrown money.
After crossing bridge across the Mississippi at Chester, we ran into the Olympic torch caravan at St. Mary’s. Very low-key, compared to the …
A new mail order catalog for overly large people features, among other things, a bicycle saddle with a 500-pound capacity.
The East Valley Tribune (Phoenix) mentions the saddle in a story about branding a catalog for Casual Male XL, the nation’s biggest chain of clothing and accessories for men’s-plus sizes.
Apparently the company has jettisoned the names “big and tall” and “supersize” because of the negative connotations those names imply. In addition to extra large clothing, the stores and catalogs offer heavy-duty lawn chairs, extra wide toilet seats and more. …
CARBONDALE, ILL. — We had plans to take off this morning for the Missouri border. I jumped out of bed early, did some laundry and putzed around. When it was 10 a.m. and we were just getting to breakfast, we came to the brilliant conclusion that we were still half hungover, we hadn’t stopped since Charlottesville, Va., and we could …
