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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    yeah but being 15mins down on GC helps nullyfy the response
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    edited October 2008
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Dave_1 wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    yeah but being 15mins down on GC helps nullyfy the response

    :) I know but don't listen too much to a cheer leaders like Lig. Turn the volume down. Ligget is not an expert in tactics... proper timing.,..hit the group hard when they are not looking

    yeah everyone was having a munch before the final climb.... and again using your position on GC is part of it in stage racing...also realizing he would probably get dropped from the lead group on the climb up to La Plagne if he didn't attack early..so yes good timing on many levels
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    mididoctors wrote:
    Dave_1 wrote:
    mididoctors wrote:
    yeah but being 15mins down on GC helps nullyfy the response

    :) I know but don't listen too much to a cheer leaders like Lig. Turn the volume down. Ligget is not an expert in tactics... proper timing.,..hit the group hard when they are not looking

    yeah everyone was having a munch before the final climb.... and again using your position on GC is part of it in stage racing...also realizing he would probably get dropped from the lead group on the climb up to La Plagne if he didn't attack early..so yes good timing on many levels

    Was he on an Italian made frame?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Fignon did it into a headwind too, brave stuff but he caught the group when they were all not just tired but also eating and drinking too. He was always a rider ready to attack.

    His 1989 season is amazing. He won Milan San Remo and then the Giro and gave us that 8-second race in the Tour, then he was a player in the Worlds and finished by taking the GP des Nations. The last rider to dominate a full season?
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Kléber wrote:
    The last rider to dominate a full season?
    Yes, I think so. Bugno in 1990 and 1991, Jalabert in 1995 are closest I can think of, but not in the same league.
  • damage36
    damage36 Posts: 282
    Dave_1 wrote:
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    Why is this all I can see of Dave_1's message?
    Legs, lungs and lycra.

    Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    Kléber wrote:
    Fignon did it into a headwind too, brave stuff but he caught the group when they were all not just tired but also eating and drinking too. He was always a rider ready to attack.

    His 1989 season is amazing. He won Milan San Remo and then the Giro and gave us that 8-second race in the Tour, then he was a player in the Worlds and finished by taking the GP des Nations. The last rider to dominate a full season?

    Indeed Kleber..smart move to come up the side of the group in a full on sprint..he was going so fast by the time he passed the front of the group they could not react..a good texbook example of the power the element of surprise gives
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    damage36 wrote:
    Dave_1 wrote:
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    Why is this all I can see of Dave_1's message?

    it's the 1987 Tour De France stage to La Plagne...Laurent Fignon jumps the group and won
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Er, yeah... much clearer now :?:
  • mididoctors2
    mididoctors2 Posts: 96
    afx237vi wrote:
    Er, yeah... much clearer now :?:

    you had to be there
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Fair enough... although I was 5 at the time so I'm not sure I would have got it even if I was.
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    afx237vi wrote:
    Fair enough... although I was 5 at the time so I'm not sure I would have got it even if I was.

    Fignon won his races with smart tactics at times...was very unluck not to win 1988 Paris Roubaix and twice won Milan San Remo attacking at nsame point on cipressa two years on the trot...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QO9CfgoZ5c
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • dave_1
    dave_1 Posts: 9,512
    edited October 2008
    It would be good if Tour De France GC riders followed in the wheels of Hinalt, Lemond and Fignon, and for that matter kelly...and actually rode Paris Roubaix...it's possibly the biggest win to have other than a Giro or TDF I guess...bigger than the worlds? Again, highly subjective, but it's major event. I hope Armstrong does it...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKBacb2V ... ata_player
  • mididoctors2
    mididoctors2 Posts: 96
    afx237vi wrote:
    Fair enough... although I was 5 at the time so I'm not sure I would have got it even if I was.

    no I mean before dave edited his posts.. although i was sitting on the back of the group when fignon went.. I would have gone with him but i gifted him the stage
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Dave_1 wrote:
    Paris Roubaix...it's possibly the biggest win to have other than a Giro or TDF I guess...bigger than the worlds? Again, highly subjective..
    Yes. Personally I would rate the Ronde van Vlaanderen above, and Milano-San Remo, Liege-B-L and Lombardia equal to Paris-Roubaix. I understand Paris-Roubaix has a high profile in the US.

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