The C.C.R. bike scene

Check out the just released Vanity Fair interview. Excerpts as follows.

"Yellow bracelets looked like a bad idea."

"The pace of last years Tour De France was "slow".

"Magnolias are my favorite tree."

"If cancer got a whole new name tomorrow and a whole new set of fears associated with it and it had the toll that it does, we would act. Look at all those other things they act upon. Forget war and terror. Look at sars. Remember the bird flu? Remember all that stuff? aids, people freaked. Those were new, scary issues that all of a sudden were going to come jump into your house and ruin your life."

The difference this time, he says, is that he won’t be flaunting his Americanism in their faces. “The constituency that I represent,” he says, “is now cancer survivors.”

I ask him what he misses most now that he’s in monkish training mode. “Salsa and chips,” he says. “That’s it.”

The date is set for the Cheshire Cycle and Repair cross race! November 22nd 2008! Mark your calendars!