Need ancient memory clarified
This is an odd one, but there is a specific reason that I'm asking, and this forum is the obvious place to ask. I'm sure that in the early nineties I watched a then dominant Miguel Indurain very nearly fall off an Alp (or maybe a Pyrenee) on a mountain descent in the Tour. He wobbled over the road marker line on an unfenced corner, but just about stayed on the tarmac. Then probably rode off to win a couple of TTs and topped the podium a few days later.
I can't find it on YouTube. Did I imagine this? Was it even Big Mig? Any idea where and what year? (I can remember the chair I was sittiing in, so it must be 1991-4). As a vertigo sufferer, I probably don't want to see it again, but if anyone could help, cheers.
I can't find it on YouTube. Did I imagine this? Was it even Big Mig? Any idea where and what year? (I can remember the chair I was sittiing in, so it must be 1991-4). As a vertigo sufferer, I probably don't want to see it again, but if anyone could help, cheers.
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You didn't imagine it - I have it on one of my old tapes. I remember him unclipping one foot as he nearly lost it. I can't remember what year it was, but it was probably the early 90s.0
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I remember watching it on Channel 4's coverage, he had a BIG moment, locked his back brake.
Couldn't tell you where/when, so not much use I'm afraid.
(E-mail Eurosport, I'll bet the commentators know!)Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.0 -
descent of the ventoux in 1994
Poli won the stage"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 -
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indurain was in the chance group of about 4 - 6 riders....
nearly came a cropper coming into a right then left bend..
foot out...I think I remember the motor bike cloking 70 mph...
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My memory is of his front wheel briefly flicking underneath him and forcing him wide, as said above on Poli's stage on the Ventoux decent. I think Phil Liggett said at the time that Indurain always used a clincher at the front in the mountains because he didn't trust tubs on the high-speed descents (maybe he'd had a blow-out in the past & couldn't get past it psychologically)?0
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Thanks to all. This remains the single hairiest incident I recall seeing in a bike race, though I'm sure someone will remember something even scarier (possibly with links)0
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Frank Schleck going over the rail into a tree at last years Tour De Suisse?"In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"
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Here it is, (Indurain that is) about 2.15 in. It was the back wheel, my bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYdZfOyc04k0 -
disgruntledgoat wrote:Frank Schleck going over the rail into a tree at last years Tour De Suisse?
that was totally mentalist!
dam lucky not to be bust up like horillo...
the schlecks frank particularly has a lot of crashes0 -
disgruntledgoat wrote:Frank Schleck going over the rail into a tree at last years Tour De Suisse?0
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That Schleck fall is astonishing, thansks. Yet seeing Indurain on the Ventoux is, though obviously striking, less scary than I imagined. I always thought it was sunnier, and on the right side of a blind sweeper with a clean drop of two thousand feet at 45 degrees. Odd how time plays tricks...0
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It's stramge. I remember seeing that somewhere, with full Liggett commentary, but I don't know where now. I know it certainly wasn't live, 'cos my only memory of Indurain is of him cracking at Les Arcs, and that's VERY vague.
P.s. Sorry for making you feel old!!!0 -
disquieting_museeuws wrote:My memory is of his front wheel briefly flicking underneath him and forcing him wide, as said above on Poli's stage on the Ventoux decent. I think Phil Liggett said at the time that Indurain always used a clincher at the front in the mountains because he didn't trust tubs on the high-speed descents (maybe he'd had a blow-out in the past & couldn't get past it psychologically)?
This is something i have had descending courcheval,to a lesser extent.(I stopped & turned my front wheel around when i felt the bounce of the valve on the road)so many cols,so little time!0