I've been training a lot in Colorado, and I've actually been riding a ton on the mountain bike. I've been climbing up the steepest things I could possibly find in Durango, which is not hard to do. It's good training because it's really hard on the arms.

I'm totally looking forward to representing the [USPRO champion] jersey tomorrow, and [Health Net] has some guys who are riding well. We haven't sat down and made the game plan yet, but all the big Americans are here so I'm going to be keying off those guys.

When you ride hard on a mountain bike, sometimes you fall, otherwise you're not riding hard. At the end of a good hour ride, the pavement was slick and the bike came out from underneath me, just like that person on the Tour de France the other day.

Dancing is like riding a bike.

Every single mountain bike rally I was in, at least one person got taken away in an ambulance. It made me think.

I can beat him on a f**king mountain bike with knobbies.