Lance Armstrong in a douche anyway. He said "Maybe people will start believing in bicycling" after he won one of those tour de France races. What does that even mean to "believe" in bicycling? I never doubted the reality of those who ride bicycles, I even did it myself as a child.
You don't have to look hard to see people out there on their bikes. They should have taken his titles just for saying such a lame brained statement.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe