Of sheep and the French...

OK, this won't be as sick as the tag line suggests (but it got you to look!)

First up, I picked up the new Novara wool sweater. About the only thing that's cycling specific about it is that it say "Novara Bicycles" across the back. It's a nice coffee brown stylish piece though not really something you'd wear riding. It's not cut for cycling, lacks pockets, and the fit is kind of funny. I got a medium and it's crazy long. OK, that seems to be pretty much par for the course with wool. Don't know why it is but every wool cycling top I try seems to be way too long in the torso and too short in the sleeves. I've tried tops from Swobo, Kucharik, Castelli, and a few others.

On the French front it appears the frogs took a dig at Lance during the presentation of the 2006 Tour route. Why is anyone surprised by this? While it's easy to write off as yet another example of the French being French I'm not show sure us Americans are any better. How do you think we'd react if a French team won the Super Bowl? Or a German team won the World Series? Of course we'll never know because the "World" Series is only open to American teams (Toronto doesn't count - I doubt anyone in their line-up is actually Candadian!) as is the Super Bowl. It's pretty easy to say you're the best in the world when you don't allow the rest of the world to play. Hell the good old US of A baseball team didn't even qualify for the Olympics! Probably just as well since chances are none of the top American players could pass an IOC drug test. Bitch all you want about the French ripping on Lance but face up to the fact that we're no better. Actually, we're probably worse - at least the French let foreign teams enter their race!