Seattle area cycling fans gave a warm welcome Thursday to Floyd Landis at perhaps his best appearance so far on a cross-country book tour to promote "Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France."

"You guys in Seattle got 'em all beat. Even better than Lancaster, Pennsylvania," Landis told me as he neared the end of a 1-1/2 hour session signing books (and shirts, and posters, and a bike).

Maybe he was just playing to the locals, but he did fill a room adjacent to Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park with some 500 cycling fans, many fresh off their bikes, who gave him a standing ovation when he entered. ......   more »