Originally Posted by alanbikehouston

Last year, during one or two stages of the Tour, Lance used some brake calipers from the early 1980's and a left shifter that was essentially identical to those used in the '80's. During a couple of stages run over rough roads he used wheels with 32 spokes, not the 18 spoke "wonder wheels" bike dealers enjoy hyping to their customers. Lance wanted to win way too much to pretend that the 2004 stuff was "the best"...the best stuff was twenty years old.