So you did not read the whole book and feel like he is a punk? I read the book and another that talked about the TT bike story. Lance ridiculed Landis over his request for a TT bike. The story in both books were the same so I am sure it was true. You may call it whining but Landis was right. When he switched teams and got a training TT bike his TT ability went way up and so did the teams standings. Lance and Landis are both type "A" people and in Lance's world there is only room for Lance. It is no wonder they did not get a long.....and that is the real story about the TT bike. The friction between Lance and Landis....not the bike it's self.