Highlight of the year 2014

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  • wallace_and_gromit
    wallace_and_gromit Posts: 3,390
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    Quote of the season:-

    "What were you thinking when you crossed the line?"

    "I really need a wee"

    I thought that's what he was thinking when he woke up that morning?

    I'm sure the interviewer was expecting some profound comment about this being the day when he finally achieved his long term ambition etc. I'm equally sure that Wiggo knew that was expected, hence the p*ss-taking comment.

    I bet when he crossed the line his immediate thought was "Thank god that's over." Is there any other thought at the end of a TT? :)
  • specialized_nick
    specialized_nick Posts: 427
    Have to agree with the others that have said the Cobbled Stage of the Tour, had everything!
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,031
    Paris Roubaix for me, maybe not as memorable as the cobbled Tour stage or one or two others but as a day's racing probably the most enjoyable to watch.
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  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    Stage 7 was the cobbles or was it 5?
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    RideOnTime wrote:
    Stage 7 was the cobbles or was it 5?

    5.
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    Still Paris-Tours to come - one of the top 5 single day races of the year IMO.
  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    Every time Contador stamped on the pedals this year, I sat forward in my seat

    Oh, and Peraud's face climbing the last few km's of Pla d'Adet. He was digging deep
  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    Every time Contador stamped on the pedals this year, I sat forward in my seat

    Oh, and Peraud's face climbing the last few km's of Pla d'Adet. He was digging deep
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Wallace and Gromit wrote:
    I bet when he crossed the line his immediate thought was "Thank god that's over." Is there any other thought at the end of a TT? :)
    That's how I've felt every time, I'm reliably informed it doesn't get any easier, you just go faster :D
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Paul 8v wrote:
    ...you just go faster :D

    Err, not always! :wink:
  • antsmithmk
    antsmithmk Posts: 717
    David Millars shoes?
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    This is true I suppose, for me this was my first season of TTs so knocked off 2:40 in a season on my 10. I think that will be hard to repeat next year!
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  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    Coach H wrote:
    The Tour, Stages 2 & 5

    Yorkshire was great but Stage 2 was very, very good

    Stage 5. Three bits
    - Lars Booms winning performance was a cobbles masterpiece
    - Nibali on the cobbles (although it is my personal opinion he is a doper even though I do not have any evidence for this)
    - G's comments to Porte before taking off with Tichie Richie on his wheel

    What did G say?
  • germcevoy
    germcevoy Posts: 414
    Kittel's sprint in Dublin.

    Tour of Flanders and Stage 5 of the tour.

    The final stage of the Dauphine was brilliant too.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    jam1e wrote:
    Coach H wrote:
    The Tour, Stages 2 & 5

    Yorkshire was great but Stage 2 was very, very good

    Stage 5. Three bits
    - Lars Booms winning performance was a cobbles masterpiece
    - Nibali on the cobbles (although it is my personal opinion he is a doper even though I do not have any evidence for this)
    - G's comments to Porte before taking off with Tichie Richie on his wheel

    What did G say?

    something like 'let's go'.
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  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    Another vote for stage five of the tour.

    Binche-chimay-binche also scores highly in the excellent value small race stakes.
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  • jscl
    jscl Posts: 1,015
    Final stage of USA Pro Challenge with Jens has to be one for me.

    But ultimately, Brad's TT at the worlds is the highlight of the year.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    the two new world champs
  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    jam1e wrote:
    Coach H wrote:
    The Tour, Stages 2 & 5

    Yorkshire was great but Stage 2 was very, very good

    Stage 5. Three bits
    - Lars Booms winning performance was a cobbles masterpiece
    - Nibali on the cobbles (although it is my personal opinion he is a doper even though I do not have any evidence for this)
    - G's comments to Porte before taking off with Tichie Richie on his wheel

    What did G say?

    "Get on my wheel, let's smash it and see what happens"
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Really need to get my act together, haven't watched stage 5 yet!
  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    Greased, that's akin to not watching Lemond's TT on the champs Elysees or Hampsten on the Gavia, sort it out ;-)
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Paul 8v wrote:
    Greased, that's akin to not watching Lemond's TT on the champs Elysees or Hampsten on the Gavia, sort it out ;-)
    Has anyone watched Hampsten on the Gavia? There's barely a photo, let alone footage.
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  • Paul 8v
    Paul 8v Posts: 5,458
    There is a bit but it looks like some footage off "You've been framed" when they show dodgy old camcorder clips from the 80's ;-) You know what I'm trying to say here anyway :-)
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  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,716
    I can't quite get past being able to ride from my own home to a stage of Le Tour. I have dreamed of such a thing since my childhood so to get the opportunity was something I will never forget .

    Riding the fens in a pack of about 60 riders all nervously excited to get to Cambridge will stay with me forever I suspect.

    The atmosphere at the roadside and the swell of pride, both nationally and of my sport as I rode home to a reception in our village with croissants and large screen transmission of the finish, was something that deadened the pain of the headwind !
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    jimmythecuckoo wrote:
    I can't quite get past being able to ride from my own home to a stage of Le Tour. I have dreamed of such a thing since my childhood so to get the opportunity was something I will never forget .

    Riding the fens in a pack of about 60 riders all nervously excited to get to Cambridge will stay with me forever I suspect.

    The atmosphere at the roadside and the swell of pride, both nationally and of my sport as I rode home to a reception in our village with croissants and large screen transmission of the finish, was something that deadened the pain of the headwind !

    That, my friend, will take some topping. Wonderful stuff.
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    In a similar vein, watching the riders cruise up Grinton Moor, after many, many soul crushing rides out there in the depths of winter was brilliant to watch.
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  • Coach H
    Coach H Posts: 1,092
    PoweredByIdris wrote:
    jam1e wrote:
    Coach H wrote:
    The Tour, Stages 2 & 5

    Yorkshire was great but Stage 2 was very, very good

    Stage 5. Three bits
    - Lars Booms winning performance was a cobbles masterpiece
    - Nibali on the cobbles (although it is my personal opinion he is a doper even though I do not have any evidence for this)
    - G's comments to Porte before taking off with Tichie Richie on his wheel

    What did G say?

    "Get on my wheel, let's smash it and see what happens"

    Exactly.............................and then doing just that!
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  • jam1e
    jam1e Posts: 1,068
    Cool, cheers guys. Hopefully he'll have a got a lot of confidence from that stage for next years classics, not that he wasn't a decent contender anyway.
  • d_o_g
    d_o_g Posts: 286
    Taylor Phinney's win at the ToC was pretty damn special.
  • spaceman147
    spaceman147 Posts: 77
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    In a similar vein, watching the riders cruise up Grinton Moor, after many, many soul crushing rides out there in the depths of winter was brilliant to watch.

    Mine too. Stayed at the Youth Hostel for 3 days with my dad and my 8 yr old. We all cycled a bit of the route before and afterwards.
    Will never forget it.

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