Armand De Las Cuevas
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He certainly made a name for himself, beating many riders in big time trials. A talented rider but heavily suspected of using the same sauce as Indurain at Banesto.
He ended up riding for tiny team Amica Chips before getting the sack from them, before finally riding the Tour of Mauritius and managing to get caught in a doping control. An inglorious end. Now running a hotel in the Caribbean.0 -
Kléber wrote:He certainly made a name for himself, beating many riders in big time trials. A talented rider but heavily suspected of using the same sauce as Indurain at Banesto.
He ended up riding for tiny team Amica Chips before getting the sack from them, before finally riding the Tour of Mauritius and managing to get caught in a doping control. An inglorious end. Now running a hotel in the Caribbean.
Fasinating Kleber
He finished 2nd to Indurain in the Luxembourg TT 1992 TDF where Indurain put something like 3 mins 50 or 4 minutes into Bugno. Miguel smashed them that day...I'd say Indurain (not Chipaucci) heralded the arrival of a new and for some dangerous era that day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVswAZcLI1s0 -
total nutter... but could ride until he saw white lights and jesus
was convinced that chain rings with an odd number of teeth were faster then even toothed ones... even if the gear ratio worked out the same"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 pm0 -
he had a bald head and smoked cigars.
what was not to like ?
he retired, disappeared.
then wound up smoking cigars in some airport somewheres.
was then asked to come out of retirement and joined Banesto....................boom, history.
Armand De Las Cuevas
1991 GP Ouest France
1993 Grand Prix des Nations
1994 Clasica San Sebastian
1 stage, Giro d'Italia
1998 Dauphiné - Libéré
he was a climber with a big bottom motor
too much glue and too little sense0 -
Remember listening to the French Road Title on Europe 1 when he won it and the commentators did,nt know who he was0
