Sorry Lance

I think I jinxed LA. Only a few hours before his crash I received the above so I could declare my support for the Astana Cycling Team and in particular, Mellow Johnny. What a lot of good that did hey?

Broken collarbone and possibly out of the Giro. Pants!

I promise to not buy anything supporter related in the week before the Tour.

Get well soon fella.

Stolen!

The Tour of California started yesterday with the Prologue (won by the awesome Fabian Cancellara of the Saxo Bank team). It's Stage 1 today. But can you believe it, the Astana team truck was broken into last night and Lance's Livestrong TT bike (pictured above) was stolen?

The stupid thing is, that it is the only bike of its kind in the world. Good luck trying to flog the most high profile custom TT bike ever! Sadly, 3 other bikes were also stolen. Bikes that Lance's team mates where suppose to use in the stage today (I'm sure they've got replacements).

I hope you get your bike back soon Mellow Johnny.

Come Back of the Year

In six days time, at the Tour Down Under, Lance starts his come back to international racing. I'm sure he's hoping it'll end on the last weekend of July with an eighth Tour title. Time will only tell. Who knows if he'll even get to the start line?

I've been following his twitter feed and it's really cool to be able to get a close insight into what he's up to. Today he posted photos of his new Trek for the Tour Down Under. It's an absolute beauty.

Just like his final Tour TT bike, his new one has codes and numbers that relate to his passion, motivation and the like.

According to the visible numbers on his bike, the 1274 is the number of days since his last pro race and the 27.5 is roughly the 27.5 million people globally that have passed away from cancer in that time. Moving stuff. I maybe be wrong with the story behind each number so drop me a line if you find out anything different.