Pro 'Tache
campagsarge
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Can anyone remember the last time a pro sported facial furniture above their lip and nowhere else on their face?
I noticed Dave Zabriskie has a 'tache. Would this play havoc with his eating/drinking regime, although I guess he could store some energy gel in his whiskers to snack on later?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2008/feb08/california08/index.php?id=/photos/2008/feb08/california08/california084/JD_08TOCstg4002
I am pretty sure he has a 'tache although would a bit of fluff under his bottom lip render the 'tache obsolete and then become a beard of some sort?
I noticed Dave Zabriskie has a 'tache. Would this play havoc with his eating/drinking regime, although I guess he could store some energy gel in his whiskers to snack on later?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2008/feb08/california08/index.php?id=/photos/2008/feb08/california08/california084/JD_08TOCstg4002
I am pretty sure he has a 'tache although would a bit of fluff under his bottom lip render the 'tache obsolete and then become a beard of some sort?
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campagsarge wrote:Can anyone remember the last time a pro sported facial furniture above their lip and nowhere else on their face?
The last ones I can remember go back close on 20 years
Urs Freuler ,Danny Clarke, Shane Sutton - what is it about track riders and "adult entertainment"-style 'taches?
Lech Piasecki - prologue / TT specialist for Del Tongo-Colnago who "retired" after an indiscretion in a public lavatory in room with a transvestite. His tache was more of a third eyebrow rather than the Magnum PI face fungus of Freuler.'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'0 -
Blimey, I never knew that about Lech. Maybe that could be a new thread. I know Maitre Jaques enjoyed his parties and Malcolm Elliot was not backward in coming forward either. Good call on Shane Sutton.
I have just trawled through The Official Tour De France 1903-2003 book and it seems that after 1921, the 'tache was banished! Indeed, that year's winner, Leon Scieur was the last winner to have some fungus on his top lip (Pantani does not count as he had a goatee).
Pre the Great War, 'taches on Tour Men was defo in vogue. On closer inspection, it appears that the advent of the three speed Sturmy-Archer gear set-up, a new Tour classification system, going round the Hex anti-clockwise and erm sheep (see Petiti-Breton who had a rather grand 'tache) - all of which occurred in 1913, put an end to the humble 'tache on our Tour heros.
Ominously, the Tour men all started to develop an interest in chemistry around this time to.
My other half has just commented that I need to get out more. I have been unable to get out on my bike this past week and it is showing. She has a very good point...0 -
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Eric Van Lancker?
80's Ardenne specialist. Anyone remember him?0 -
DaveyL wrote:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2008/ ... 302_113228
Didn't one of the French trackies a few years ago have a natty beard & tache combo?0 -
