Unprofessional Cycling

Pro racing has gone through another spurt of shooting itself in the cleat of late. Patrick Sinkewitz, after the obligatory denial period following his drugs test failure and sacking from T-Mobile, has finally come clean: "I felt guilty about it all." He said in a recent interview for German magazine Der Spiegal. Happy news as it is that Pat is feeling a little culpable over lying about his doping misadventures, it's been quickly followed by the announcement that Adidas, having clearly had enough of the never-ending scandal, are withdrawing their sponsorship of the T-Mobile team at the end of 2008. The T-Mobile suits  have themselves recently been publicly pondering whether or not the team will exist at all in the near future. Can you hear me sighing whilst I'm writing this?
But despite it all, we'll still be watching the Tour next year and the year after that. Then getting on our bikes afterwards in futile emulation. And here's why:

Hope that cheered you up as much as it did me.