What happened to the bike boom?

On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 7:14:09 PM UTC-7, John B. wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 03:08:11 +0200, Emanuel Berg
wrote:

The Tour de France starts in a couple
of days.

I've seen a couple of documentaries on YT and
I can understand the appeal to road bike riders
and to the people who live in a region thru
witch the race passes.

Myself, I feel unrelated tho, and I always
considered sport stars to be a bunch of spoiled
and one-dimensional brats. Sports is great to
do but I don't follow them as a fan.

I suspect that one would find anyone at the top of any endeavor to be
pretty much one-dimensional. After all, to become "the best in the
world" takes a tremendous amount of time and energy leaving little
time for anything else.

I also find the drive for the maximum performance from the human body extremely interesting. After you've watched a solo breakaway that stays ahead for an entire stage and the poor soul can hardly hold the back of the pack the next day it gives you faith that you can earn better performance with effort.