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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup
I want to clarify the poseurs comment. I don't find annoying people who only watch cycling once a year for the Tour. I don't understand how watching cycling on TV can possibly be interesting but then a lot of people don't understand how I can enjoy watching golf on TV.
I'm more talking about the people who only cared because Lance Armstrong was winning and so this year they don't care. To me that isn't enjoying a sport that is enjoying celebrity and it will just annoy me those people pretending that they care about the sport.
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It's only when an American is winning. No one cares other wise, you are so dead on. Cycling on TV is boring for some, but to someone who actually has experienced it, they are glued to the TV like any other. Unless the race is a closed short course criterium,Road races can be boring. 11 seconds later the field is gone, whereas say a race like Redlands criterium is a great spectator sport, because you can actually see the attacks.
It's the Lance effect, in the late 80's early 90's it was the Lemond effect. Everyone wants to buy a Trek bike because he won on it. Back in the early 90'sthe Lemond EFFECT it was the Aero Scott Triathlon bar and Bottechia road bikes because Lemond won on it, then he had a company called CarbonFrames out of Alameda with a man named Craig CALFEE. Which is now it's own after a falling out with Lemond's parents. Whoever wins the Tour people think they have to buy that bike, because they think that bike won the Tour not the "motor". People are funny sometimes.
