Pub Talk - Greatest Cycling Photo Ever!

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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Thanks for the reminder about Pinot's stage win. As for the others, that YMCA celebration needs work.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    If you like the reflection then:
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    But the best ones are from the track:
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
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  • Bo Duke
    Bo Duke Posts: 1,058
    Watching Hoy's greatest triumphs on youtube makes you shiver... what a monster.
    'Performance analysis and Froome not being clean was a media driven story. I haven’t heard one guy in the peloton say a negative thing about Froome, and I haven’t heard a single person in the peloton suggest Froome isn’t clean.' TSP
  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
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    Photographer @kristoframon has won the 2014 Nikon Photo Press Award for Sports with this amazing picture

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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    ^Great photo.

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  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    Bo Duke wrote:
    Watching Hoy's greatest triumphs on youtube makes you shiver... what a monster.
    Nearly as good as Reg Harris who really was a monster but as a professional they couldn't ride the Olympics.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957

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    ILJOOOOOO!

    Spoke his dad about that win a couple of weeks ago. He said "Sometimes he gets results. Not enough though"

    No pleasing some folk
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Further to the video I posted of the incident...

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    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
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    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Didn't want to create a new thread and this is the best place I could find to post it. Possible one for Frenchie to back https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/54 ... hotography
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    Was reminded on this one today. Love it.

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    Great image, you can almost see the pressure being lifted from a nation.
  • supermurph09
    supermurph09 Posts: 2,471
    nic_77 wrote:
    @Laura_Meseguer
    Photographer @kristoframon has won the 2014 Nikon Photo Press Award for Sports with this amazing picture

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    Incredible pic, thanks for sharing.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
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    Perhaps not the greatest cycling photo ever, but a good one nevertheless.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    Really like this one.

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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    Bo Duke wrote:
    Watching Hoy's greatest triumphs on youtube makes you shiver... what a monster.
    As much as I love road, Hoy is just something so special - monster seems the right word. His career was astonishing.

    This is one of my all time Olympic memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzceCYkv4xQ

    Needing a PB to even get a medal and then nailing the gold - incredible.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    I very much liked this one from the Tour of Yorkshire on Friday

    Taken by Ben Charles for the Cycling Podcast (why does a podcast have a photographer?)

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    Twitter: @RichN95
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Daz555 wrote:
    Bo Duke wrote:
    Watching Hoy's greatest triumphs on youtube makes you shiver... what a monster.
    As much as I love road, Hoy is just something so special - monster seems the right word. His career was astonishing.

    This is one of my all time Olympic memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzceCYkv4xQ

    Needing a PB to even get a medal and then nailing the gold - incredible.

    Remember the SKY documentary with him legpressing about 200kg plus Shane Sutton sat on top of it?
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • RichN95 wrote:
    I very much liked this one from the Tour of Yorkshire on Friday

    Taken by Ben Charles for the Cycling Podcast (why does a podcast have a photographer?)

    I was up the bank to the left of the photo - it was a fantastic finish venue with the final KM plus visible. The leaders emerged round the bay one by one, then group after group came home, very exciting.

    Anyone who thinks the TDY was a poor race should have got themselves to this spot!
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Good amount of old photos:
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  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    RichN95 wrote:
    I very much liked this one from the Tour of Yorkshire on Friday

    Taken by Ben Charles for the Cycling Podcast (why does a podcast have a photographer?)

    I was up the bank to the left of the photo - it was a fantastic finish venue with the final KM plus visible. The leaders emerged round the bay one by one, then group after group came home, very exciting.

    Anyone who thinks the TDY was a poor race should have got themselves to this spot!

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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    RichN95 wrote:
    May I add a couple of late ones where the event is largely remember because of the photographs.

    Firstly - 1934. Rene Vietto sits on a wall having ridden back up the course (legal at the time) to give a wheel to his crashed team (and race) leader, Antoinin Magne. Rene Vietto had stood to inherit the lead himself. He's watching the race pass by in anguish waiting for the team car to arrive. Magne won the GC. Vietto was fifth. It's quite a famous photo.

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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
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    Not sure if this has been posted yet...
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Gruber makes other pro photographers look like amateurs.
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    I am literally gobsmacked every time I scroll through his artistry.

    See here for more:
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    Be warmed you may faint with the amount of quality.
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