Iconic images signifying change

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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
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    This an later the superman were finally the straws that broke the postitional camels back and halted the slide towards HPV racing.
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    edited April 2014
    Speaking of which…

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    … Chris Boardman - 1994 TdF prologue at Lille (ok hardly an iconic image).
  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    Another quite interesting one…

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    Petit-Enghien - 1 October 1961 & first win for Eddy Merckx!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,079
    RonB wrote:
    Another quite interesting one…

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    Petit-Enghien - 1 October 1961 & first win for Eddy Merckx!

    The podium girls have improved in the last 50 years!
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    Perhaps she's the prize ?
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    RonB wrote:
    Speaking of which…

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    … Chris Boardman - 1994 TdF prologue at Lille (ok hardly an iconic image).
    The best thing about this is that Leblanc had been slating his hour record saying anyone in the Peloton could do that time, then he got passed in a Prologue :-)
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  • RichN95.
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    Paul 8v wrote:
    The best thing about this is that Leblanc had been slating his hour record saying anyone in the Peloton could do that time, then he got passed in a Prologue :-)
    If think he actually said that half the peloton could do it. After the race Boardman said "At least we now know which half Leblanc is in"
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
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    RichN95 wrote:
    Paul 8v wrote:
    The best thing about this is that Leblanc had been slating his hour record saying anyone in the Peloton could do that time, then he got passed in a Prologue :-)
    If think he actually said that half the peloton could do it. After the race Boardman said "At least we now know which half Leblanc is in"

    Now that's a comeback. Oscar Wilde, eat your heart out.
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  • tailwindhome
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    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • greasedscotsman
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  • RonB
    RonB Posts: 3,984
    greasedscotsman wrote:
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    That's a great pic. I had a look for a photo of both Vos and Longo from c2004 but no joy.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    A bit like RonB's Boardman photo, not the greatest image, but...

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  • tailwindhome
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,806
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    Only just realised this image isn't in there.
  • BenderRodriguez
    BenderRodriguez Posts: 907
    Pross wrote:
    ddraver wrote:
    SpecialGuestStar wrote:
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    You re going to have to help me with how that is a "change"...

    They aren't wearing USPS jerseys.

    :lol:
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  • BenderRodriguez
    BenderRodriguez Posts: 907
    all show no go wrote:
    Change?

    Let's hope so....

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    I think that there have been some real changes. For example, they no longer put out a press release when a rider tests positive!
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  • BenderRodriguez
    BenderRodriguez Posts: 907
    edited July 2014
    Pra Loup, 1975...

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  • FJS
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    RonB wrote:
    Another quite interesting one…

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    Petit-Enghien - 1 October 1961 & first win for Eddy Merckx!

    Is that Eddy Merckx? Smiling?
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  • davidof
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    BenderRodriguez wrote:
    Pra Loupe, 1975...

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    Saw Thévenet today, he's aged well.
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    Jonny Vegas when he was still racing?
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  • Paul 8v
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    It was his first win, after that there were no smiles!
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    davidof wrote:
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    Good picture. Whats the story?
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,089
    inseine wrote:
    davidof wrote:
    120702_tourdefrance-08_p465.jpg

    Good picture. Whats the story?

    Look at the chain
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    davidof wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    davidof wrote:
    120702_tourdefrance-08_p465.jpg

    Good picture. Whats the story?

    Look at the chain

    Campag quick release..
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  • BenderRodriguez
    BenderRodriguez Posts: 907
    inseine wrote:
    davidof wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    davidof wrote:
    120702_tourdefrance-08_p465.jpg

    Good picture. Whats the story?

    Look at the chain

    Campag quick release..

    Actually that bike is fitted with a 'Super Champion' Osgear. Roger Lapebie used one to win the 1937 Tour de France with a record average speed, which was the first year derailleurs were allowed in the Tour. By the way, the Osgear was even indexed!
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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    BenderRodriguez wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    davidof wrote:
    inseine wrote:
    davidof wrote:
    120702_tourdefrance-08_p465.jpg

    Good picture. Whats the story?

    Look at the chain

    Campag quick release..

    Actually that bike is fitted with a 'Super Champion' Osgear. Roger Lapebie used one to win the 1937 Tour de France with a record average speed, which was the first year derailleurs were allowed in the Tour. By the way, the Osgear was even indexed!

    Good one. It would be interesting to know the stories behind all the pictures, or is it supposed to be some sort of challenge?
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  • BenderRodriguez
    BenderRodriguez Posts: 907
    inseine wrote:
    It would be interesting to know the stories behind all the pictures, or is it supposed to be some sort of challenge?

    Good point. The Pra Loup picture shows Merckx's last day in the yellow jersey of the Tour de France.
    "an original thinker… the intellectual heir of Galileo and Einstein… suspicious of orthodoxy - any orthodoxy… He relishes all forms of ontological argument": jane90.

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