Post an awesome cycling YouTube video......

mattsaw

..... does what is says on the tin really. Anything cycling related and explain why you posted it.

I'll kick things off with Chris Boardmans TDF time trial from 1994.

This was around the time I first started watching the TDF and I remember all the newspaper hype around the Lotus bike. Clocking speeds of 55kph.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjJ60Kx2j8I

Omar Little

last year on the Champs Elysees, the motorbike camera keeping pace with the leaders then you see Cavendish in the background zooming past

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhSNV-t37VM

greasedscotsman

Because it's the best bike race in the world!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlGMQ--_wUM

redvee

Omar Little wrote:

last year on the Champs Elysees

The year before when the finish wasn't so close

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCUD0CPK ... re=related

mattsaw

redvee wrote:

Omar Little wrote:

last year on the Champs Elysees

The year before when the finish wasn't so close

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCUD0CPK ... re=related

This article on Canvendish is a pretty good read...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/others ... ation.html

En route to Saint Fargeau, Cavendish and his team hoover up the two survivors of the early breakaway group with five kilometres to go. The task from here on in is simple: keep the pace so high that it is nigh on impossible for single riders or groups to escape and prevent a sprint finish. Or even better, keep it so high that, when it’s finally time to launch Cavendish, the others are no further advanced than the Manxman’s rear wheel.

The speed now edges 60 kilometres an hour.

“George [Hincapie] is one of the best guys on the road for positioning,” Renshaw explains. “He knows where we have to be; then Tony Martin has got amazing horsepower. He needs to lead from one kilometre to 600 metres, or 550 metres, to go.

“Then I take over, but we’re going that fast by then that no one’s moving. I’ve got a good 400 metres in my legs, and then I leave Cav with about 180 metres [to go].”

When Renshaw talks about the magic number of 180 metres, it’s really just another way of saying that Cavendish can hold top speed for about 10 seconds. Today, on such a steep uphill rise to the line in the last 500 metres, that meant dropping him off at closer to 100 metres out.

Cleat Eastwood

wow brilliant choices from all the above. This will stay in my mind, contador v rasmussen. just attack after attack and the chicken calmly plies his trade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWrsVBs8 ... re=related

prana-ferox

you are over the top of the Poggio with a good lead, and then with a kilo to go Kelly roles up to your back wheel, only going to be one outcome


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL3jQmkj ... re=related

unixnerd

Maybe a predictable choice, but still a great moment in cycling history:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7wpDjGHXU

CarbonCopy

unixnerd wrote:

Maybe a predictable choice, but still a great moment in cycling history:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7wpDjGHXU

I so wish that didn`t happen

unixnerd

I so wish that didn`t happen

You and me both.

TMR

I've just found this video while looking for something else. It's actually quite funny, all things considered

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzPq0hDd ... re=related

One Man And His Bike

Omar Little wrote:

last year on the Champs Elysees, the motorbike camera keeping pace with the leaders then you see Cavendish in the background zooming past

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhSNV-t37VM

Seriously amazing finish and showing he isn't a one trick pony as so many say because he shows there he can do it without a drilled and dedicated lead out, utter genious.

Taking a different tack, one of my favourite moments of Le tour, because it's just jaw dropping carnage, Yet oddly amusing when the guy responsible hops up and acts like nothing happened, yep, you guessed it, the infamous Policeman crash...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pya6ZVW-oKg

petemadoc

Sticking with Le Tour, I remember this as a kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBtCaLYFKjo

One Man And His Bike

PeteMadoc wrote:

Sticking with Le Tour, I remember this as a kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBtCaLYFKjo

I was torn between that and the Policeman crash.

greasedscotsman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJNLMYpr2TM

I know, I'll just ride away from eveyone else!

greasedscotsman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlc-s7eI5Cg

Probably McEwen's best Tour stage win. Crashes at around 20km to go and then still wins the stage!

Le Commentateur

greasedscotsman wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlc-s7eI5Cg

Probably McEwen's best Tour stage win. Crashes at around 20km to go and then still wins the stage!

That was his last Tour win, wasn't it?

mattshrops

lovin those vids- the greatest sport in the world-easy 8)

Matt the Tester

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBNE8HwzgQQ&NR=1

this is an epic moment!

greasedscotsman

Le Commentateur wrote:

You mean Stage 2? That was his last Tour win, wasn't it?

Sorry, don't get you there, what's stage 2?

unixnerd

Can't miss out this one, love Armstrong of loath him it's one heck of a ride:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtZhG2kWVLY

petemadoc

Armstrong again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7THIhZEP4QM

petemadoc

Anyone for cyclocross . . . ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_Fs1QtsOY

Sorry if this has been posted before

Cleat Eastwood

PeteMadoc wrote:

Anyone for cyclocross . . . ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_Fs1QtsOY

Sorry if this has been posted before

incredible. nice post.

RichN95.

PeteMadoc wrote:

Anyone for cyclocross . . . ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_Fs1QtsOY

Sorry if this has been posted before

That is absolutely magnificent. "The Hell of the North-East". I love the bike toss at about 2.10. The commentary's great too.

UCI - sod, the Tour of Beijing or whatever - put this on the ProTour calender.

RichN95.

To add a very short, poor quality, but little seen video -

Oscar Freire, 3km from the finish, shows an innovative way to attack the breakaway group he's in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-araCVvDmWU

He won.

dizzydane

Descending at it's finest....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxXqQqAc2pA

(The original was posted on here a while ago, but has since been removed from youtube)

Anonymous

Not an LA fan but this is one of my favourite cycling vids, the way the author has edited it with the music is TOP!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHJErrp4eOw

Poor quality but the crowd noise is AMAZING! Now, think about doing a TT where the whole distance there is that noise cheering you from a few feet away! Goosebumps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a_Q-Zlg23k

mattsaw

NapoleonD wrote:

Not an LA fan but this is one of my favourite cycling vids, the way the author has edited it with the music is TOP!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHJErrp4eOw

That spent a bit of time bookmarked in my browser, as you say, awesome effects editing, it really works well.

rick_chasey

You have to speak Dutch but I really like this one:

Post Paris Roubaix 2002, with Wuyts giving his impressions about Musseuw both during and after the race, and the revelation of Boonen.

And, naturally:

Tommeke Tommeke Tommeke! Wat doe je nu?!

ben@31

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread , but I think its a good subject.

This has to be the best climb I've seen, still impresses me every time I watch it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOyvswnEBTo

This is interesting gopro footage of riding in the peloton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE97iUvSHk0

"The race just got won.. It's all over... They're racing for second place now... It's enough to win the stage"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yf1nJYkCHQ