Pub Talk - Greatest Cycling Photo Ever!
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frenchfighter wrote:In which case this thread may entertain you for a light read:
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That's a good thread. I think there are 2 posts i really connect with:
1> it was a watershed moment that EPO really was more than just a naughty drug for a few
2> I was a naive teenager at the time and viewed it different to the older guys in the clubGetting up is the second hardest thing in the morning0 -
Re. Maertens, just read this on Wikipedia, quite interesting:
1973 world championship
Relations between the riders and their fans reached their depth on 2 September 1973 in the world road championship around the Montjuich climb near Barcelona. Maertens had said he was not willing to ride for Merckx. That angered Merckx's supporters who, Maertens said, six times threw cold water over his legs.[7]
Merckx broke clear on a hill. Maertens said none of the others took up the chase and so he chased by himself. Merckx was angry that Maertens, in his view, had sabotaged his chances of winning. Maertens was the better sprinter.
The two were unable to cooperate and were caught by Luis Ocaña and Felice Gimondi. Maertens agreed to lead Merckx in the sprint and allow him to win. He would be well paid, he understood - "a fantastic offer."[7] But Maertens rode too fast for Merckx to stay with him. Gimondi rode in Maertens' shelter instead. Maertens realised too late and Gimondi won.
Enmity between Merckx and Maertens lasted decades. It ended in 2007 when the two met in a hotel in France.
"I was smoking a cigarette and he asked me for a cigarette. He said to me, 'Freddy, we have to talk about Barcelona.' I said, 'I think so too.' And then we spoke about it for three hours and we shook hands and everything was over.”[3]0 -
I like that last para.
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Wasn't there also supposed to have been some skulduggery related to Shimano vs Campag at that Worlds ?
Gimondi & Merckx were Campag and Maertens was Shimano IIRC and I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that money changed hands in relation to this0 -
Photo is by the boss that is Breakthroughmedia:
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dsoutar wrote:Wasn't there also supposed to have been some skulduggery related to Shimano vs Campag at that Worlds ? Gimondi & Merckx were Campag and Maertens was Shimano IIRC and I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that money changed hands in relation to this
I think that was just Maerten's paranoia coming out. From what I recall of the story, a day or so before the event a group of riders, including Maertens, were out on a training ride when they came across Senior Campagnolo, who asked who was going to win the race. Someone said 'Him', pointing at Maertens. Campagnolo then started to laugh and said 'Oh no, not him, he rides Shimano'. Just a bit of banter I am sure, but Maertens took this to be the birth of a plan to stop him winning."an original thinker… the intellectual heir of Galileo and Einstein… suspicious of orthodoxy - any orthodoxy… He relishes all forms of ontological argument": jane90.0 -
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pinarello001 wrote:
1952 Tdf, can anyone name the blokes in this shot? (Not a quiz, I just don't know)
RobicBASI Nordic Ski Instructor
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“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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Jaja, Lombardia 1997
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It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.0 -
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davidof wrote:pinarello001 wrote:
1952 Tdf, can anyone name the blokes in this shot? (Not a quiz, I just don't know)
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“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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1982 l'Alpe de Huez:
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....“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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Really like this
Camille @camillemcmillan · Oct 6
The old man in 1955 or '56 (Bigginhill he thinks)
Single free cyclocross bike!“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Pross wrote:Phil Anderson is hardly getting stuck in, I'm surprised he is allowed back into Australia after that pathetic showing. Shame it wasn't Shane Sutton instead.Booner69 wrote:Ha ha, fair point, Anderson looks like he's wobbling on his cleats!... Sutton is solid, that would've been a sight!!
As an aside, when Sutton first came over to race thinking he was a hard knocker, apparently he used to be a bit of a bully. He was racing a crit with Sid Barras, something was said and Sutton slammed on in front of Barras. Needless to say the next time they came on to the finishing straight, the commentator announced that it was great to see Sid nursing the injured rider around. Apparently Sid had leathered him."A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"
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What a terrible waste of a career and a life0
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The Gypsy in full flight, perfectly composed, alert, and muddy as hell on the pave/kasseien.kop van de wedstrijd0