PEZ-Readers Say It With Their Fingers!
Zoiks! Still diggin out from the mountain of emails clogging up the Mac – ! Now I’ve got time to answer some reader inquisitions, so for those of you not on holiday, still numb from the excitement of the last 3 weeks, here’s some blather to ease you through the day…
Lance’s Broken Bike
Hey, Pez dudes:
Love your website!! awesome information. Do have a question though. Is it true that Lance had a cracked chainstay after his crash on Luz Ardiden and rode the rest of the way to victory on a wonky bike?? That’s what “Phil Liggett” says, but no one else has mentioned this. Just wondering if this is true or if Phil has been drinking to much vino!! If it’s true I think Lance needs to pay a visit to Lourdes and light a candle or two!!
– Paul Burke
I talked with one of the USPS mechanics on the rest day, who confirmed that Lance did indeed crack his bike in the fall. Sorry – I didn’t get details…- Pez
Love The French
What the hell goes? I am in cottage country, no paper, 2 kids with strep throat, a strained back, it’s 7pm Ontario time and my “riders source for news” has no stage report for me???? It’s as if this site was French for christ’s sake. I say take the tour de France away from France and give it to some other country with mountains. Keep the good looking girls involved, the good food, etc, but get rid of that language and the attitude that goes with it. I think you are just the man to do it, but you gotta pick up the pace on the road. 150 km just doesn’t cut it. That is the speed for side roads.
– Ron
PS this is after 1 beer and 2 rummers…..+ some muscle relaxants.
I say we blame it on the French! I suffered 4 days without internet connection, and not one of the indigenous beret-wearers would help!
More Love The French
I love it! Iam an American, living in France, married to a French woman, running an American business and laughed my ass of when reading your article. The French are the worst. They argue– which they call a discussion, nothing ever gets done. And for the McDonalds, don’t ever go in or drive through, cause what you and I know of as “fast food” you can get faster at a resturant. I have waited at Mcdonalds with my 3-1/2 year old daughter, cause she loves it, for 25 minutes just for the incompetent woman behind the till to serve 2 people in front of me. I would have left but my daughter insisted on her happy meal. Go into Mcdonalds, just to see how the “real” French work, they don’t! Someone will probably be standing behind the girl at the till, “discussing” with another employee the benefits of french potatoes as compared with the american potatoes while we all wait for our freedom fries. Glad you could make me laugh.
sincerely,
Gentry Mcgrath
And I didn’t have to make up one bit of the story – it’s all true! You can read it here “Making The French Connection“.- Pez
No Babes?
2 of the female Pez photos need fixing and to make matters worse, they appear to be two of the hotter females. A little help please.
– David
This was just one of the several emails we got on this broken link… I don’t know what to think at this point, as the “Distractions du Tour” section got twice as much traffic as everything else during our Tour coverage! Bravo fellas! – Pez.
Beloki’s Crash
I have, as I am sure countless others worldwide have, been scouring the newsservices to find out more about Beloki’s dramatic crash. Knowing that you guys are ‘in the know’, I thought that you might have heard what happened to Beloki. From the footage that we have seen, it appears that he was dragging
the rear brake too much causing a skid, but the actual final cause of the crash itself may well have been a rear blowout or a tire rolling, preventing him from controlling the bike.
Do you know from your contacts if he was running clinchers or tubulars? In the event that it was a tubular and it rolled, that would suggest that either the glue had softened due to the braking heat or that it was
inadequately adhered (which I find hard to believe). In the event that it was a clincher and a blowout caused the tire to dismount, it is perhaps an example of why you don’t want to race with clinchers in the first place.
I am sure that all of your readers would be fascinated by the answer to these questions. Based upon my investigations, you would be the only ones who published the answer.
– Geoffrey A. Mar
In spite of our dogged “nose for news”, we don’t have an answer on this one – perhaps one of our trusty Pez-Readers might know? anyone?- Pez
And Lastly…
Keep up the great work!
– Ed Krieg
Thanks Ed – will do!
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