Originally Posted by tvphobic

You must read French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France by Tim Moore.
It's mostly an exercise in humor but has some really important observations about the route and the people (how to get along with them). There's no where near as much drivel about the mechanical bikey type stuff that I find fascinating,* but I'm the geek, not Tim.
About the only thing he says about his bicycle is its color and that he doesn't pump up the "tyres" very often (another way he and I part company)


*I just would have been interested in knowing exactly what showed wear, when, how much, and all that nonsense. Tim is oblivious and he's lucky as I see it.