Dauphine 50k TT - Wiggins

kangarouge

I've just seen Wiggo win the above. I think that's the best timetrial I have ever seen. He just seems to have destroyed the opposition. Almost catching Evans - amazing!

Has anyone seen better?

gsk82

ooow you're gonna get told off for telling people who don't want to know the result but still came on a cycling pro race forum what happened!

turnerjohn

totally obliterated everyone !!!
the boys on fire, bring on TDF his 11\5 favourite now that really would be something :P

iainf72

I've seen many better and more interesting

If that helps.

disgruntledgoat

iainf72 wrote:

I've seen many better and more interesting

If that helps.

It was no 89 TDF

Is that a spoiler?

RichN95.

Kangarouge wrote:

Has anyone seen better?

Miguel Indurain in the first half of the 90s.

For example. Here's a 64km TT in the 1994 Tour de France. Those time gaps are minutes, not seconds.

kangarouge

Oops. Many apologies if it spoiled it for anyone. I don't come on the Pro cycling forum very much and it seems to show.

Gazzetta67

+1 for Indurain ...suggest you you tube 92 tour TT in Luxembourg and watch a masterclass

mididoctors

putting 30 secs into Tony Martin[who was trying] or anyone else at the top of GC in this era of racing..... which I notice is much tighter these days is no mean thing


it was a hell of a ride

dave_1

I prefer Evans BUT it would be great for cycling in the UK if Wiggins won TDF! Cadel has to do a bit of what Liewe Westra tentatively showed of Wiggins climbing at Paris Nice the day before Col'D Eze MTT, which is that Wiggins cannot climb out the seat and will get dropped on steep slopes when surges go off for 50 meters at a time. It was evident in the steepest stage of the Vuelta last year too re Brad

inseine

Much that I'd love wiggins to win, I'd also like to see some attacks in the mountains. There's nothing in the tour as steep as the Vuelta though.

ddraver

Merge, merge, merge,merge!!

symo

Yeah big Mig was good then, but Wiggins is now and it was awesome. Must have got the bit between his teeth when he saw Cadel ahead of him.

I don't think Wiggins will have that much of a problem in the mountains, the Vuelta proved he can do it (if he gets the gearing right) and as for Paris Nice, yes he was attacked but he just kept ploughing away.

Got to be worth £20 to win the TdF this year.

Yellow Peril

RichN95 wrote:

Kangarouge wrote:

Has anyone seen better?

Miguel Indurain in the first half of the 90s.

For example. Here's a 64km TT in the 1994 Tour de France. Those time gaps are minutes, not seconds.

Incrdible by Indurain, putting 5 mins in to the likes of Boardman. By the way is this the TT in that Youtube clip where Mig goes past Armstrong like he is standing still? That clip always makes me laugh and must have been the point where Armstrong decided "I'll have some of what he's on"

turnerjohn

[quote=

Incrdible by Indurain, putting 5 mins in to the likes of Boardman. By the way is this the TT in that Youtube clip where Mig goes past Armstrong like he is standing still? That clip always makes me laugh and must have been the point where Armstrong decided "I'll have some of what he's on"[/quote]

+1

timoid.

Yellow Peril wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Kangarouge wrote:

Has anyone seen better?

Miguel Indurain in the first half of the 90s.

For example. Here's a 64km TT in the 1994 Tour de France. Those time gaps are minutes, not seconds.

Incrdible by Indurain, putting 5 mins in to the likes of Boardman. By the way is this the TT in that Youtube clip where Mig goes past Armstrong like he is standing still? That clip always makes me laugh and must have been the point where Armstrong decided "I'll have some of what he's on"

And if Wiggins had been in that TT, he'd be somewhere around the Boardman mark. 5 mins down. The joys of EPO folks.

But taking off my cynic's hat, a quite staggering performance.

tailwindhome

EPO

I had a pair of Banesto shorts and wrecked my knees pushing too big a gear on the Raleigh Scorpio I bought with my first wage from my first summer job.

"Say it isn't so Mig. Say it isn't so"

derbygrimpeur

turnerjohn wrote:

[quote=

Incrdible by Indurain, putting 5 mins in to the likes of Boardman. By the way is this the TT in that Youtube clip where Mig goes past Armstrong like he is standing still? That clip always makes me laugh and must have been the point where Armstrong decided "I'll have some of what he's on"

+1 [/quote]

I think it was the point that he though "I better go to the doctors and get my balls checked"

Although he probably also thought "I'll have some of what he's having if I survive"

cougie

derbygrimpeur wrote:

turnerjohn wrote:

[quote=

Incrdible by Indurain, putting 5 mins in to the likes of Boardman. By the way is this the TT in that Youtube clip where Mig goes past Armstrong like he is standing still? That clip always makes me laugh and must have been the point where Armstrong decided "I'll have some of what he's on"

+1

I think it was the point that he though "I better go to the doctors and get my balls checked"

[/quote]

Armstrong was diagnosed in October1996 - so two years after this race.

frenchfighter

Yellow Peril wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Kangarouge wrote:

Has anyone seen better?

Miguel Indurain in the first half of the 90s.

For example. Here's a 64km TT in the 1994 Tour de France. Those time gaps are minutes, not seconds.

Incrdible by Indurain, putting 5 mins in to the likes of Boardman. By the way is this the TT in that Youtube clip where Mig goes past Armstrong like he is standing still? That clip always makes me laugh and must have been the point where Armstrong decided "I'll have some of what he's on"

derbygrimpeur

cougie wrote:

derbygrimpeur wrote:

turnerjohn wrote:

[quote=

Incrdible by Indurain, putting 5 mins in to the likes of Boardman. By the way is this the TT in that Youtube clip where Mig goes past Armstrong like he is standing still? That clip always makes me laugh and must have been the point where Armstrong decided "I'll have some of what he's on"

+1

I think it was the point that he though "I better go to the doctors and get my balls checked"

Armstrong was diagnosed in October1996 - so two years after this race.[/quote]

Fair point, although I'm sure I read in his book that he'd not been feeling right for a LONG time before his diagnosis (hence why it was so advanced). It was possibly 2005 though.

timoid.

derbygrimpeur wrote:

Fair point, although I'm sure I read in his book that he'd not been feeling right for a LONG time before his diagnosis (hence why it was so advanced). It was possibly 2005 though.

I think this TT was before Armstrong started getting training plans from Dr F. Hence going from whupped to World beater.

inkyfingers

Not looking to defend Lance Armpit for a second, but it was also before he started riding the Tour for GC, so would he have been going full gas in the TT?

Might be rubbish, and doesn't explain how Indurain beat all those other guys though...

Monty Dog

That'll be the time when Armstrong went from an average-pro VO2 max pre-cancer to world-beater in a space of a couple of years - truly an physiological 'miracle'? Indurain was a monster on a TT bike and I remember the Luxemburg TT well, but it killed the Tour as a 'race' dead for anyone watching.

andyp

How quickly Chiappucci's ride to Sestriere is forgotten.

Pross

You are all such cynics. It's obvious that LA lost all that time due to wearing a casquette while Mig had an aero helmet. LA became a contender when he invested in a TT helmet!