I was pretty intrigued with it on two fronts. First, I’m fascinated with the wind-tunnel testing since my day job is in aerospace engineering, and second, because I’m curious to see an inside view of what a professional cyclist does.
It was nice in a way to hear him saying he had back problems on the new bike, and also seeing him liberally applying the chamois cream to his shorts, makes me feel like I not such a puss (even though he logs a lot more miles than me and has a more legit excuse).
Anyways, definitely reality tv that I’m interested in watching. I just saw espn.com had a blip on it as well. I’m not sure I really am that interested in seeing some of the relationship stuff with Crowe, but I’m definitely going to be tuning in on Thursdays.
Well, we got our first look at the new Giro TT helmet! Funny, Giro recently claimed they’d developed the helmet to be faster than the Lance Fairing, but Lance stated the helmet was slower. Not that it’d make a difference for me. I still think they should market the clear plastic shells for the road helmets.
I tivo’d the Lance Chronicles and watched it twice now. Wish it was longer.
If all pro level cyclist had the support that Lance does from various companies I bet they would be very dangerous. I guess some do but Lance seems to have everyone looking at any and everything possible to improve his chances of winning number six.
I noticed that he uses Assos chamois cream, which is the best by the way. The camera did cut away before he rubbed the cream over his skid marks! On his TT bike it seems that his brake and shifter cables are hidden or run real tight against the bars and frame. You can see this in this weeks SI magazine. It makes my cables routing job look like my 1st grader did it. He has made a lot of changes this year in preparation for the tour. He changed his bike, changed his training plan, which is cool I just hope he doesn’t light a big fat joint with his new stoner girlfriend Sheryl Crow.
It’s better than I thought it would be. I found his comments on adjusting his shorts boosting the drag in TT’s interesting since he always seems be doing that in every TT I’ve seen.
It was funny his ass creme was “secret” since they weren’t a sponsor but it was still on camera for a while. It’s what I have wound up with after years of experimentation too, but I certainly don’t use it as liberally as he does at almost $18/jar.
For all the assistance, money, chicks, etc. he gets what I found myself most jealous of was the massage. I could really go for that. Oh and a personal chef would be nice too.
Let me first say that I hope he wins #6, and that I respect him as a cyclist.
Now, I have very little respect for him as a man. As I do anyone who would dump his wife and kids. Especially a wife who supported him during the ‘hard times’, ie…cancer and comeback.
There were rumors of he and Crow before the divorce which makes it even worse.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but his wife came on the scene after the cancer. That’s how they met, she was working for the PR or ad agency for his cancer foundation.
Jaj, do you read People Magazine by any chance? (or the national enquirer?) Do you believe everything you hear in the media? Geez, give it a rest already, you don’t know the roots of his separation and divorce any better than the next guy/gal that pays attention to the trashy media that you’ve been buying into.
Life is tough, marriage is even tougher…go ahead and judge all you want though if it makes you feel any better.
This isn’t meant as a personal attack on you, it’s just that the star-worshipping media makes me sick.
Sorry, but in my book wedding vows are real and to be followed. He didn’t follow through.
Are you saying the Crowe thing is not real? That the media made it up?
ANYONE who walks away from their kids does not deserve respect. I don’t care how often they get ‘visitation’ or anything else.
For Lance, if ‘it’s not about the bike’, and it’s not about the family, then what’s it about.
We put people up on such a high pedestal and as long as they ‘achieve’ something we tend to overlook everything else. Let’s put Pat Tillman in his place. Pat would have given up his bicycle before he gave up his family.
I thought “The Lance Chronicles” was pretty good stuff but it seemed to me that the intro for each segment was almost as long as the segment itself? As for the new TT helmet, although still a prototype, it seemed to me to bear a striking resemblance to a Louis Garneau Prologue TT helmet - longer fairing at the back and more trim/rounded/aero through the front/temple/side area.
As for the Armstrong’s marital problems - I find it interesting that everyone automatically assumes that the breakup in the marriage was Lance’s fault. How many of us took the time to consider that it might have been Kristen who was unhappy? Kristen was a serious mover and a shaker at the firm where she worked before the two got married. How hard do you think it was for her to transition in such a short period of time from having power lunches, a mover and shaker and top business exec and then nearly over night, finding herself having to deal with the trials and tribulations of motherhood of first one, then two more children while her husband was gone more than 85% of the time?
I don’t want to turn this into an epic argument, b/c I see your point and agree to an extent. BUT, none of us know what acutally occurred. She could have tired of their lifestyle and made his life a living hell. (It’s not hard to make yourself unbearable to live with) She could have given him an ultimatum that he just couldn’t live with. We just don’t know.
I hope he is taking care of his kids, that is numero uno. To tell you the truth, I’m more disgusted with the media glorifying his relationship with Crowe than its actual existence. Nothing is sacred to the blood thirsty Star stalkling media. He could have waited a year, and they still would have been hiding in his bushes trying to get a shot of his new girlfriend. Screw the low class media, don’t screw Lance.
We’ll soon find out what’s going on, if he’s dating Sheryl Crow. Ask Eric Clapton and others she dated. Its basically: (1) date Sheryl Crow; (2) break up with Sheryl Crow; (3) Sheryl Crow sings and writes about about (1) and (2) and the deep, inner recesses of the man, his conflicting paradoxes, his vices, and her dual artistic role in this, as both an observer and torn, voodoo, love child.
What I thought was cool/ interesting, and I taped it and watched it a few times to confirm is that on some of the shots on his TT bike (both on the road and in the wind tunnel) he had his TT bars on that he has been using this season, and also on some of the other shots (both on the road and in the wind tunnel) he had the HED carbon bars on his bike. I just thought that was cool/ interesting.
"Sorry, but in my book wedding vows are real and to be followed. "
Nobody gets married with the intent of things not working out, but it’s a fact of life every newly wed couple should be aware of. In the real world it sometimes happens. Couples can sometimes grow apart. Divorce is not a good thing but sometimes it’s actually better than staying in an unfulfilled marraige. Divorce happens. That’s the reality of the world we live in.
I’ve seen a lot of couples say “it could never happen to us” and then it does happen to them. Don’t be so smug.
Here ya go. It won’t ever happen to me! When your marriage is based on the right things, it won’t happen. Yeah, everybody goes through hard times in marriage, but like I said before, real men stick around to work it out, cowards run.