So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish

There is a big hole in the cycling world now. Lance Armstrong has hung up his professional bike for good. It is going to be strange when next July rolls around and it won’t be, “Will he do it again?”, but who is the heir apparent. I certainly hope for Americans it is another fellow countryman. Not because I’m jingoistic, but more because it raises some awareness in Mr. & Mrs. John Q. Public that cyclists are human and you shouldn’t try and run them off the road for sport.

During one of the “Chasing Lance” shows on the Discovery Channel last night, at one point Lance show us a gym bag with some of the Tour de France’s Yellow Jerseys he’s won in it and he calls them Mellow Johnnies. A play on the French term for them, maillot jaune. In honor of Mr. Armstrong’s accomplishment of seven in a row, I have created a special T-shirt: Seven Mellow Johnnies. Buy one and I’ll donate the $1 mark-up to the Lance Armstrong Foundation.