A couple of weeks ago, eTrashMike rode the star-studded Tour de Tucson for the third year in a row — and for the third time, he enjoyed the very fast ride, despite spending much of it completely frightened. His conclusion: El Tour is getting too big.
Check out the Tour de Tucson — or “El Tour” is it’s colloquially, contra-linguistically known — and you’ll learn immediately that it’s BIG.
Size is clearly a point of pride for its organizers: Virtually every webpage, every piece of collateral boasts: “nearly 10,000 participants.”…