The Next Cool American

All this talk of lance retiring and the next generation of cyclists bugs me. Tom Danielson, recent Tour of Georgia winnner seems like such a weenie...I like Dave Zabriske, I saw him at Morgan Hill and he kicked ass. The duel between him and Clinger (who looks bad ass, DON"T LOSE THE INK CLINGER!) was cool.

I remember back in 97-98 the next great American hope was going to be Bobby Julich. I know I should be happy for Bobby Julich's victory at the Paris Nice and his renewed vigor the last two years. He's a great comeback story afterall. I just can't shake the feeling he is a tool.

When I was a junior, and Bobby was a junior, I heard from a bunch of friends that went to nationals that he was target of a lot of pranks. I thought this was kind of cruel until they explained it was because he would throw temper tantrums when he couldn't find his vitamins. To the point that he would call his Dad in Colorado crying. Sounded weird.

I was pretty impressed that he made it over to Europe with Motorola. I was even more impressed when he finished third in the 98 tour with Cofidis which I covered for AOL. He seemed to avoid all the doping scandals going on at the time.

It was a tough time for US cycling and he looked like the next great hope. In 99 he was poised to do great things.... but he crashed, Lance won, and the rest is history. Apparently he was a real pain in the ass while on Credit Agricole. He wanted his own cook, and better rooms and all kinds of stuff that the French team balked at.

Let's hope that SO PRO Jones makes it over to Europe...he could be the coolest thing in American cycling since Bob Roll. SO PRO just needs to change his website to something other than PINK...whats up dude, you trying to get on T Mobile?

DO YOU GET THAT WEB MASTER? NO PINK