King of the Race Face
frenchfighter
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Who has or had the best race face in the business. Post up with a photo if possible.
I'll kick of with the best in Basso. A silent, quiet guy, not flashy, which makes the emotion when it shows all the more genuine.
I'll kick of with the best in Basso. A silent, quiet guy, not flashy, which makes the emotion when it shows all the more genuine.
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Surely the best "race face" is one which betrays no emotion or fatigue? Indurain, for example. In Stephen Roche's autobiograhy he wrote how he tried to look impassive, regardless of how tough things were, even going to the trouble of using code words when telling his domestique how he was really feeling. Why would you give more information to your rivals than absolutely necessary?
Basso looks too much like he's trying out for the World Gurning Championships'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'0 -
Well I guess you can interpret it as you like. You refer more to a 'poker face'.
I look at it from more of a spectacle, effort, panache standpoint. I am not interested in your Menchovs or Lances or Brajkovics who ride with their mouth closed and with no emotion.
Incidentally, most of those photos above come from solo efforts.Contador is the Greatest0 -
frenchfighter wrote:Incidentally, most of those photos above come from solo efforts.
They certainly do look like it.Le Blaireau (1)0 -
Try these for size...
Voeckler
Big Jens
Fignon & Lemond
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If you like Basso gurning, this is probably the best:
From the Zoncolan this year BTW0 -
Chris Anker Sorensen
Cannondale Supersix / CAAD9 / Boardman 9.0 / Benotto 30000 -
Wegmann
Contrast
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I've a nice one of Jan from les Deux Alpes in 1998 - he looks miserable. WIll have to find & scan the transparency to post it though.0
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Basso's got it going on. Showing the pearly whites is a bad habit of mine.
Stumbled upon that one. Can't say I'm all that familiar with Rabanal, although I imagine he doesn't walk about all day wincing like that.0 -
Wegmann for me. Always looks like he's giving birth.-- Dirk Hofman Motorhomes --0
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DaveyL wrote:frenchfighter wrote:Incidentally, most of those photos above come from solo efforts.
They certainly do look like it.
Just spat my tea. Certainly something "vinegar strokes" about them.Warning No formatter is installed for the format0 -
No tA Doctor wrote:DaveyL wrote:frenchfighter wrote:Incidentally, most of those photos above come from solo efforts.
They certainly do look like it.
Just spat my tea. Certainly something "vinegar strokes" about them.
Every single one is incidentally their orgasm face too. I'm going to try some of these out at home0 -
NapoleonD wrote:NapD
Looks like Pozatto should be giving his "Peleton's Most Metro" award back!0 -
Remember Wegmann when he was in the group with Bettini the year he won Lombardy after winning the Worlds, Wegmann close to tears from the effort.0
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Bernardus, those shots from the Giro9 are some of my favourite. The difference is pretty amazing as are the colours.
Danilo 'Killer' Di Luca, has the 2nd best race face.
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I have so many great photos of Di Luca I don't know which to choose!
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Menchov obviously has it in him so it would be nice if he showed it sometimes!
Original screenshot from some feed:
And highly edited:
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Gilbert... one of many...
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Yeah Gilbert is top class.
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Good ole Christophe; not doing his vinegar strokes: looks more like his pre race warm up for his Mrs; "haven't you got any curtains??". There could be children watching??!!??
The photo below which comes from a French Website where Moreau's being copied by some News reader type, I assume, as I can't read French. She does a better job of it than our Christophe for sure. mmm...licky, licky!! :twisted:
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”- Albert Einstein
"You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water."
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Here is a man who had a proper race face and to be hoonest even when he cracked he didn't looked much different from normal; did he ever breathe??
Same face again
AND AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”- Albert Einstein
"You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water."
-Jacques Anquetil0 -
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me at the catford hill climb this year. beat that pros
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Contador riding in support of our very own Bhima:
("Psssst... you're meant to peel it first you dope.")0 -
Would Bertie be any good as a domestique for Bhima? Cant imagine Bertie being too much help to him in the mountains......Bhima would drop him early doors!0
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The other side of Cav, not so much a race face but a race belly
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