As the Tour de France bike race grinds its way through France, Versus cycling commentator Bob Roll continues to amuse us on the evening rebroadcasts with his Tour insights.
The blogger at So Quoted has collected some funny excerpts from Bobke's earlier works. A member of the original 7-Eleven team, Roll certainly has a unique perspective on things.
I took the picture above when Roll spoke at the 2005 Seattle Bike Expo, where he explained how and why he came up with “Tour DAY France:”
“I have my reasons. It's to get back at the French for being so cruel when we used to race back there,” he said. When he and his parched teammates would stop at a restaurant and ask for water, the waiters always acted like they couldn't understand what they were asking for and didn't serve them. “We decided to get back at the French by massacring their language every chance we'd get.”
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