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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    SMJ.

    Stick to posting about topics rather than posters, unless you have something good to say.

    Eventually you'll learn what's appropriate and what isn't.

    Okay. Sure.

    For what it's worth I have a good grasp.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    TailWindHome wrote:
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    Greg LeMond. That was an easy one.

    (But you mean the guy next to him, don't you - the nose and cap suggests it's Bartali again)
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
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    Chap in the glasses.
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  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    Jan Janssen, winner of the "Tour of Health" in 1968 (mildly amusing 'cos he's a smoker), beating van Springel in the final TT.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Jan Janssen
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Guess the glasses were a giveaway heh?

    First picture i've seen him not frowning or generally looking too cool for school.
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  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    Ha, great find. JJ indeed. The dude on the far left is Evert/Eef Dolman.

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  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Guess the glasses were a giveaway heh?

    First picture i've seen him not frowning or generally looking too cool for school.

    Can't help posting this pic from the 1963 TdF

    JJ, Dick Enthoven, Ab Geldermans, Huub Zilverberg

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    He's very cool.

    Even now.

    Apparently because they didn't have access to endless water supplies when he was racing he trained himself to being very sparing with water. He still barely touches water when he rides. Even said that at the time they thought 'driest was fastest', given it didn't weigh them down....
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,537
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    He's very cool.

    Even now.

    Apparently because they didn't have access to endless water supplies when he was racing he trained himself to being very sparing with water. He still barely touches water when he rides. Even said that at the time they thought 'driest was fastest', given it didn't weigh them down....

    You might find this interesting

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24464774

    Like many things, dehydration is all in the mind.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    He's very cool.

    Even now.

    Apparently because they didn't have access to endless water supplies when he was racing he trained himself to being very sparing with water. He still barely touches water when he rides. Even said that at the time they thought 'driest was fastest', given it didn't weigh them down....

    You might find this interesting

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24464774

    Like many things, dehydration is all in the mind.

    Makes sense.

    I've noticed that since I've started commuting in London, where I don't carry water, I drink a lot less on club runs.

    Usually a full bottle will suffice for a good 100km. Bit more if it's really hot, but I'll just get a coca cola instead of a coffee at the cake stop.

    And before a smartarse says something about coffee dehydrating you...

    Myth: Coffee dehydrates you.
    Fact: Only if you overdo it.     While caffeine is dehydrating, the water in coffee (and tea, for that matter) more than makes up for the effects, ultimately leaving you more hydrated than you were, pre-java

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/2 ... 98380.html
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  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    ...and more than 1 bottle is seriously uncool, never mind against the rules!
  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    I have seen the same scene from a different perspective from a shot in within the Wall Street Journal archive, so 1958 TdF? I don't have any more info than that I'm afraid. From the same archive this gem...

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Charly Gaul right?
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Spot on. The Angel of the Mountains during the 1955 Tour.
  • Biffcp
    Biffcp Posts: 813
    10 minutes later he was eating an ice cream :wink:
    <i>Rarer than a one-liner by Howard Peel</i>
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Biffcp wrote:
    10 minutes later he was eating an ice cream :wink:
    That was Bahamontes.
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  • LutherB
    LutherB Posts: 544
    RichN95 wrote:
    Biffcp wrote:
    10 minutes later he was eating an ice cream :wink:
    That was Bahamontes.

    You called? 8)

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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  • skylla
    skylla Posts: 758
    http://www.zimbio.com/photos/Jean-Christophe+Peraud/Romain+Bardet
  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
    OK, this is going to be a bit vague... I recall seeing an old picture of a rider (dutch?) out training with a motor pacer. The motorbike rider was wearing one of those baby carriers containing the racer's young son. The picture was in Pro Cycling or more likely Cycle Sport back in (probably) April/May/June 2013.

    Can someone remind me of the rider's name, or better still post a link to the image?

    Thanks!
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
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  • rayjay
    rayjay Posts: 1,384
    TailWindHome wrote:
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    1. is it Brian, from My Parents are Aliens

    2. Dan draper from madmen

    3. he soup Nazi from Seinfeld .

    4. Hank marvin

    5. Is it my old maths teacher Mr Root

    I pretty much nailed it. easy peasy
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    TailWindHome wrote:
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    Ha nice one - Anquetil, Coppi, Merckx, Fignon, LeMond?
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    frenchfighter wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
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    Ha nice one - Anquetil, Coppi, Merckx, Fignon, LeMond?
    That's what I would have gone with :-)
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  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    nic_77 wrote:
    OK, this is going to be a bit vague... I recall seeing an old picture of a rider (dutch?) out training with a motor pacer. The motorbike rider was wearing one of those baby carriers containing the racer's young son. The picture was in Pro Cycling or more likely Cycle Sport back in (probably) April/May/June 2013.

    Can someone remind me of the rider's name, or better still post a link to the image?

    Thanks!

    Zoetemelk. Can't find that picture though.
  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
    mm1 wrote:
    nic_77 wrote:
    OK, this is going to be a bit vague... I recall seeing an old picture of a rider (dutch?) out training with a motor pacer. The motorbike rider was wearing one of those baby carriers containing the racer's young son. The picture was in Pro Cycling or more likely Cycle Sport back in (probably) April/May/June 2013.

    Can someone remind me of the rider's name, or better still post a link to the image?

    Thanks!

    Zoetemelk. Can't find that picture though.

    Thank you! There's a further 20 sec bonification for anyone willing to look back through their old issues and at least give me the magazine details :)
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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    It is one of these guys but I cant work out which:
    http://www.trekfactoryracing.com/team
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