Found this courtesy of
hoodooguru's post over on the Road forum:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...e=caple/070706
It's a great read not only about the Tour, but about bicycling in America in general. An especially great quote at the end:
Who is more patriotic, the person who commutes to work on a bike, or the guy who slaps a U.S. flag decal on his SUV that gets 12 miles per gallon?