I love the idea. But it is kinda crazy. Why not go north/south? Or change
the route every year to feature different places? eastern coast one year,
the rockies/plains the next and west coast some other time?

On Fri, September 28, 2007 10:19 am, Matthew Klahn wrote:
> Well, the organizer at least thinks it's for real:
> http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/13403.0.html
>
>
> But, with UCI saying "It's too long", and being double the distance of
> the TdF, I don't think it will happen the way he thinks it's going to.
>
>
> You could maybe do something like start in NY, go through the NE, Ohio to
> Chicago, take a rest day & jet to Omaha, spend some time in the Rockies
> getting to Boulder & Denver, then to SLC, Utah, another rest day & jet to
> Reno, then into California and end up at SF. Probably could be done in 3
> weeks & with the long (relatively) jets over some of the middle flats,
> you'd have a more TdF type race with some really tough mountain stages in
> the eastern Rockies & in Utah, but not stupid distances like the guy's
> proposing now.
>
> But hey, all I've got is common sense; he's got 25 "experts" advising him
> to go through Podunk, TX & the hottest parts of the country in September.
>
> Matthew Klahn
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