Robert Millar

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  • SunWuKong
    SunWuKong Posts: 364
    Please don't go. Robert Millar and Luis Herrera were also for me part of why I fell in love with cycling. I love watching climbers move away from the pack.
  • johny c
    johny c Posts: 256
    Sun,

    Here's one for you then, a favourite of mine. I wonder what it felt like clearing that climb then riding for your life?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsjWOiBtQTc

    My last word then, keep in touch Robert, one way or another.

    all the best, johny.
    Johny
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    I hope gottheeshirt2 keeps posting on these forums, his knowledge is needed......bikeradar is more interesting as a result! :)
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,573
    Dave_1 wrote:
    I hope gottheeshirt2 keeps posting on these forums, his knowledge is needed......bikeradar is more interesting as a result! :)
    Yeah, he can correct you on all the shite you post! :wink:
  • top_bhoy
    top_bhoy Posts: 1,424
    johny c wrote:
    Sun,

    Here's one for you then, a favourite of mine. I wonder what it felt like clearing that climb then riding for your life?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsjWOiBtQTc

    My last word then, keep in touch Robert, one way or another.

    all the best, johny.

    Blissful memories - he skelped them all that day!!!

    Robert Millar was the guy who got me out on a bike and the memories at that time are never forgotten!!!
  • A legendary man and a great website http://www.robertmillar.net/ I am down for a jersey...
  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    Dave_1 wrote:
    I hope gottheeshirt2 keeps posting on these forums, his knowledge is needed......bikeradar is more interesting as a result! :)

    I'm with you on this - it's been the highlight of the morning (althought admittedly my job is hardly eventful...) seeing what's been posted in this thread overnight!
  • Salsiccia
    Salsiccia Posts: 405
    I can only echo most of what people have said - that Robert Millar is one of the main reasons I took a serious interest in cycling.

    I hope the person posting is Robert, if only because I wouldn't want anyone taking the p*** out of him or the forum members by pretending to be him. If Gottheeeshirt2 is Robert, cheers for the memories and the inspiration.
    I was only joking when I said
    by rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed
  • weyayeman
    weyayeman Posts: 1,141
    If it is Robert I echo all the sentiments on here.I photographed you on a few occasions you rode in the north east of england,I was just a lad then :lol:
    Great to see your still interested in cycling and all the best when your 50th comes around
    How son yee divent need gaan doon the Pit,coz thas plenty coal in the coal hoose
  • dulldave
    dulldave Posts: 949
    He only seems to pop up to correct people who post rubbish about him. So if we keep it up he might hang around :D

    So here goes:

    Er.... I reckon Delgado won that Vuelta fair and square, there wasn't really any evidence to suggest the Spanish ganged up on him.
    Scottish and British...and a bit French
  • Salsiccia wrote:
    I hope the person posting is Robert, if only because I wouldn't want anyone taking the p*** out of him or the forum members by pretending to be him. If Gottheeeshirt2 is Robert, cheers for the memories and the inspiration.

    My thoughts precisely. I'll put my doubts aside for the moment, though, as this may be my one and only opportunity to thank him for one of my few sources of enjoyment in life: cycling. Thank you.

    One question for gotheteeshirt2: if Brian Smith were to ask you to attend a Braveheart cycling event (dinner or ride), would you come? I can see why you wouldn't right enough. The riding weather might be ropey and the attention at the dinner might be a bit much too. But it would ensure the day was a huge success. Meeting Sean Kelly, David Millar and Alan Peiper last was a priviledge, but meeting Robert Millar? Wow!
  • Steve2020
    Steve2020 Posts: 133
    Well it would be pretty cool if it is the real RM.

    Either way it's pretty cool that Britain's greatest cyclist also came up with Britain's greatest username.

    And whoever said Robert didnt get on with people - Paul kimmage, Allan Peiper, Sean Yates and I'm sure others all speak very highly of him - never heard bad word said.

    btw I read Cycle Racing: Training to Win and the companion Cycle Racing: Riding to Win. I was still shit though.
  • Best thread ever?

    Oh yes. I didn't realise what was going on in this thread until tonight. Great read and a great rider.
  • BrianS
    BrianS Posts: 112
    sometimes things are real :D
  • johny c wrote:
    a wee test for you, who are these guys and where are they? no helping him now :D

    ...I'm guessing they're still both exactly where you left them. Once Big Al starts talking it can be hard to get away!

    Cheers, Andy
  • One question for gotheteeshirt2: if Brian Smith were to ask you to attend a Braveheart cycling event (dinner or ride), would you come?

    He already has, it was a few years ago and I said Thanks but I don't need another chicken dinner . :lol:
    Of course I remember the last time I attended a brussels sprouts occasion ....quelle scandale :!:
  • top_bhoy
    top_bhoy Posts: 1,424
    Of course I remember the last time I attended a brussels sprouts occasion ....quelle scandale :!:

    sacre bleu....you forgot which knife and fork to use :wink:
  • BrianS wrote:
    sometimes things are real :D

    Good grief – validation! Thanks for that.
    He already has, it was a few years ago and I said Thanks but I don't need another chicken dinner . :lol:
    Of course I remember the last time I attended a brussels sprouts occasion ....quelle scandale :!:

    Fair enough – understandable. Apologies for my initial doubts regarding authenticity - it seemed too good to be true!

    Alan Peiper’s book said that the organisation and morale at Fagor wasn’t all it could have been. If I had known that, I wouldn’t have spent my formative cycling years riding with a Fagor top! I can still squeeze into it, so it’s worthwhile keeping for posterity I suppose.

    Best thread ever? No question – superb!
    :D
  • Patrick1.0
    Patrick1.0 Posts: 290
    I am new to the boards but recognised this name immediately. One of the few great riders Britain has produced. Enjoy your birthday, Robert.
  • Eurostar
    Eurostar Posts: 1,806

    What doesn't interest me cycling or writing about it :?:

    I do have other interests which challenge me and quite rightly that lets me learn new things . Sometimes I even get to use some of the stuff I already know but obviously in a different context .

    Gottheteeshirt2, I really hope you keep posting here now and again, about anything you like. If a lot of this cycling stuff is just ancient history to you now, perhaps you could tell us about your current interests? As you can see we don't like it when you get driven away by people hounding you or writing rubbish - please stick around!
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    <h6>What\'s the point of going out? We\'re just going to end up back here anyway</h6>
  • I somewhat agree with Eurostar. Be good to have someone correcting the barely clueless and armchair fans :oops: :D
  • johny c wrote:
    Sun,

    Here's one for you then, a favourite of mine. I wonder what it felt like clearing that climb then riding for your life?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsjWOiBtQTc

    My last word then, keep in touch Robert, one way or another.

    all the best, johny.

    Here's another one - excellent! :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSqRBNbANSU

    and another...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3xcUoRl8TU
  • Bernie S
    Bernie S Posts: 118
    Brilliant paradoxical, I have the Bonnete climb on video and kept thinking of the mans climb this year albeit when they climbed it the other way. Watching the descent to the stage finish you got a good look at how steep it is which put his effort that day into perpective. A bunch of us were screaming into the set hoping he would make it to Isola before the Indurain group got to him. And when they did he attacked again....
  • Bernie S wrote:
    A bunch of us were screaming into the set hoping he would make it to Isola before the Indurain group got to him. And when they did he attacked again....
    His whole approach to that stage was exact, measured and a ringing endorsement for why he would be a brilliant road racing coach. He dropped Delgardo quickly on the lower slope and then put circa a minute into the bunch AND HELD IT AT THAT. If he'd put anymore than 60 or 70 seconds into them, which he probably could have, they would have made an all out effort to chase him down early for fear of him climbing up the GC. A wealth of experience & eleven tours told him that.... It also meant there was something in the tank for the Isola. What he couldn't have forseen was Riis and Chiappucci honking up the Isola. The bunch were never going to let these two go. Liggert comments that he's surprised at Riis being in at the kill on the Isola. Riis has now admitted to taking EPO since 1993. So did Chiappucci but he later retracted the statement:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Chiappucci
    I've always believed that these two cost RM the stage that day. I'd love to know if RM thinks that too but I suspect he's the sort who will let sleeping dogs lie. What does it matter anyway? In the mind of the world, his wife and every Frenchman on the planet the victory was RM's.
  • RedAende
    RedAende Posts: 158
    mrushton wrote:
    if anyone from Rapha or Prendas is reading, perhaps some tribute shirt might be brought to the market to honour Roberts achievements?

    a Peugeot polka dot jersey with 1984-2009 25th anniversary emblazoned on it :D

    Red Aende, Red Spesh Hardrock, Wine Mercian, Rusty Flying Scot
  • scotnat
    scotnat Posts: 1
    ...I'm guessing they're still both exactly where you left them. Once Big Al starts talking it can be hard to get away!

    Cheers, Andy

    Andy,

    When I was at Wheelcraft in Clachan of Campsie about a month ago, there was a notice in the open window behind the master wheelbuilder which read:

    "Please don't feed Big Al"

    Alex (now in the US)
  • happy birthday mr. millar. I just finished reading Mr. Moore's book about you and my admiration has only grown stronger. I remember my first knowing about you when I read my first issue of Procycling (December 2000, Axel Merckx cover) where you tested the Principia RX. Your bike reviews and Robert Reckons column were always somehting I looked forward to when buying the latest Procycling ish (and those mags were HARD to find in the Philippines back in the day).

    You can bet I;'ll be watching The High Life on Youtube tonight.
  • I remember watching Millar one Saturday afternoon on World of Sport. It was 1984 I think, when he won a mountain stage. It was the first time I'd seen cycle racing on TV. The whole spectacle, the terrain, crowds, and of course a Brit winning the stage was inspirational. I'm still hooked!

    Thanks Mr Millar for helping me see the light - I stopped playing football and mithered my parents to sort a bike out for me.
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    I swear that people seem to wish Robert Millar a happy birthday on here about other month.

    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.