In Kansas City on Sunday, the Tour was more like a massive tailgating bash, with roving revelers cruising downtown on foot and by bike, ringing cowbells and dancing in the streets.
The festivities started on Saturday morning, with several hundred local amateurs riding up to 50 miles on quiet streets for the Tour's official charity event, the AIDS Bicycle Challenge. When the pros showed up the next day, though, those sleepy streets were packed with cowbell-toting cycling enthusiasts who followed the race from its start in St. Louis; families on tandem bicycles who took in the spectacle over picnic lunches; and even tattooed rabble-rousers, who shucked off their shirts and chased the spandexed athletes though the Westside.
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