Thread: Tour de France

I am watching the Tour de France for awhile but have conflicted feelings about it. I am one of the many viewers of the Tour who got hooked when Lance Armstrong was in the saddle. I've been on and off bicycles my entire life but was never a fan and through the Armstrong years began to look at the history of the Tour and road racing in general. I think todays riders of the Tour today are terrific athletes, but I can't watch without feeling the loss of the drug wins and the riders of the past who were tough workmen on the bikes, without wireless communication, without carbon fiber, without power meters, wind tunnels, etc....early ones without gears. It was all grit, steel, muscles and will. Maybe I'm just getting old.
It reminds me of my father telling me in the late 50's when he was disgusted with boxing, saying it was 'fixed.' Then he would launch into his admiration of Rocky Marciano and Joe Louis. You getting to old for the Tour?