Pub Talk - Greatest Cycling Photo Ever!

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Polish national cycling team training in the winter of 1980 in a Jan Rozmarynowski photograph
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,941
    Hinault.jpg
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Brilliant.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,941
    If you're on Twitter and like old cycling photos Casquetteurs ‏@casquetteurs is worth a follow
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    TailWindHome wrote:
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    I love that photo.

    Who is the rider in the middle?
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,114
    Guido van Calster.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,941
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    Photo: Bartolomeo Aimo climbs the Col d’Izoard, Tour de France, 9 July 1925

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Wow that road is so narrow.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,941
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    No where near the greatest but some may like it. Not seen it before.

    Sean Yates, stage 6 1988 TdF (he won the stage)
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,941
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    Vintage bike shop ‏@bike_parts_shop · 25m25 minutes ago  Pau, Aquitaine

    Tour de France 1924.
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  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Fucking Americans, running alongside the riders :angry:.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Like this a lot.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Lots of photos I have never seen before:
    http://bloodpipes.tumblr.com/
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,333
    I love this pic of Viviani chasing his wheel across a field in Strade Bianchi, don't recall ever seeing a pic quite like it, so I reckon it belongs here.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Yeah that's pretty excellent.
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  • DL1987
    DL1987 Posts: 204
    How did that situation come about?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    jeredgruber
    8 hours ago
    How does that even happen? Funny story. Elia Viviani flatted. He held his wheel up high and waited for a spare. And waited. And waited. 200m down the road, there was carnage - bikes and bodies everywhere - so he waited some more. Eventually, frustration got the better of him, and he tossed his wheel down. Nothing violent, just the normal ughhhh moment of a race lost to bad luck. Unfortunately for Viviani and his wheel - when the wheel bounced up, the wind caught it, and it was off to the races. He didn't win. I assume the wheel is either still rolling or far, far down the field.
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  • DL1987
    DL1987 Posts: 204
    frenchfighter wrote:
    jeredgruber
    8 hours ago
    How does that even happen? Funny story. Elia Viviani flatted. He held his wheel up high and waited for a spare. And waited. And waited. 200m down the road, there was carnage - bikes and bodies everywhere - so he waited some more. Eventually, frustration got the better of him, and he tossed his wheel down. Nothing violent, just the normal ughhhh moment of a race lost to bad luck. Unfortunately for Viviani and his wheel - when the wheel bounced up, the wind caught it, and it was off to the races. He didn't win. I assume the wheel is either still rolling or far, far down the field.

    Ha! Excellent, cheers.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Why did he bother chasing after it?
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    Why did he bother chasing after it?

    Sprinter's instinct to follow wheels?
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    So what Gruber's saying is there's a decent rear wheel somewhere at the bottom of a valley in Tuscany...

    Right I need a new rear wheel. See you later...
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Macaloon wrote:
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    Why did he bother chasing after it?

    Sprinter's instinct to follow wheels?

    Hat.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    Why did he bother chasing after it?
    A cycle wheel with "No Air" in it and it rolls away.??
    Why indeed did he chase after it and maybe he had paid a deposit on it, that he didn't wish to loose. ?
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    Why did he bother chasing after it?

    Sprinter's instinct to follow wheels?

    Hat.

    +10
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  • mrushton
    mrushton Posts: 5,182
    In that sequence of photos that the SKY rider is in is one of the peloton on a gravel road, a rider sitting at the roadside and in the background distance a rider upside down mid-air photo #23

    http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/03/strad ... -photos-2/
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  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    Jared Gruber is an artist. Best cycling photographer out there at the moment IMO.
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Macaloon wrote:
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    Why did he bother chasing after it?

    Sprinter's instinct to follow wheels?
    Contender for post of the year right there!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Was reminded on this one today. Love it.

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