Got to ride with Lance on Tuesday as part of a customer event for Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Team Oracle served as ride marshalls.







Lance was great - had breakfast with us and went through a Q&A. He talked about the politics of the peloton and yellow jersey protocol, citing his fall in 2004 and Schleck's chain drop this year. He singled out how Contador said he didn't see it when it was pretty clear from the video he looked back and saw it.

He also talked about the Leadville 100 and said it was very tough. There's no singletrack, the race course is mostly fireroad and some pavement. But at 12,000 feet you are just hanging on and trying to avoid making any mistakes. And if you try to accelerate you will pay for it.

He seemed to really enjoy talking about cycling, even saying he could go on for hours about this stuff.

I had also wanted to ask him about filming the Radio Shack ads, and if it's true that the name for his sidekick Alphonse was really going to be Alberto but that RS chickened out, but we ran out of time.