[Rodney King]

Do you wear spandex and the gay yellow bracelet?

[zoso82t]

Do you wear spandex and the gay yellow bracelet?

Okay, we get it, you don't like cycling. So why are you on this thread?

[Paradox]

Do you wear spandex and the gay yellow bracelet?

Nope, and I ride a mountain bike, not a road bike. I ride through the city, a road bike would get torn up. Besides, I like the inefficiencies of a mountain bike, makes my body work harder at the lower speeds neccessary in city riding, and I need the exercize, gotta lose about 20 more pounds.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Do you wear spandex and the gay yellow bracelet?"

You might have noticed that football players also wear tight, unnatural pants. Do you like to stare at their buttocks? Does watching the tackling give you some kind of suppressed homosexual thrill?

Of course I'm being sarcastic, but people who hint that there's something sissified about cycling are clueless. It takes balls to ride down a mountain pass at 60 mph on half-inch tires. And it takes incredible stamina to ride a bike 120 miles at an average speed of about 25-30 MPH. Try riding a bike on level ground at 30 mph for three minutes, and you might appreciate those who can do it for 3 hours.

Of course, no one is under any obligation to take a shine to any particular sport, but I find the TDF mesmerizing, and wish I'd discovered it earlier.