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ugo.santalucia
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First TdF win for Colnago bikes... it took a while and comes just 4 months after Ernesto sold the company.
Would be interesting to look back at which historic manufacturers have yet to win the Tour... anyone?
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Spoiler!

    You know, just in case anyone is living in a cave in the Afghan mountains or something :D
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    ugo.santalucia said:

    First TdF win for Colnago bikes... it took a while and comes just 4 months after Ernesto sold the company.
    Would be interesting to look back at which historic manufacturers have yet to win the Tour... anyone?

    Ribble
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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,325
    salsiccia1 said:

    ugo.santalucia said:

    First TdF win for Colnago bikes... it took a while and comes just 4 months after Ernesto sold the company.
    Would be interesting to look back at which historic manufacturers have yet to win the Tour... anyone?

    Ribble
    Yeahbbut they never even tried...

    ... and is Pinarello the most successful in the modern era? 5 wins with Indurain and another 6 with Team Sky/Ineos...
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    edited September 2020
    ugo.santalucia said:



    Yeahbbut they never even tried...

    ... and is Pinarello the most successful in the modern era? 5 wins with Indurain and another 6 with Team Sky/Ineos...


    And Delgado, Riis, Ullrich and Pereiro
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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,325
    ... of course, forgot about Telekom...
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Any indurain tours won on a Reynolds ... ?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Or am I getting my memory wrong
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Just tubing wasn't it? A zillion years ago it seems
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,490
    ugo.santalucia said:

    First TdF win for Colnago bikes... it took a while and comes just 4 months after Ernesto sold the company.

    Thought we'd covered this yesterday.
    Merckx for starters.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    mididoctors said:

    Just tubing wasn't it? A zillion years ago it seems


    Yes. Delgado won the Tour for Reynolds on a Pinarello
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    RichN95. said:

    mididoctors said:

    Just tubing wasn't it? A zillion years ago it seems


    Yes. Delgado won the Tour for Reynolds on a Pinarello
    That was it
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,325
    Did anyone ever win the Tour on a Cannondale?
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,823
    Trek won 7 in a row at the turn of the century.

    Or, at least, I remember them doing it
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    ugo.santalucia said:

    Did anyone ever win the Tour on a Cannondale?

    Ryder the giro maybe?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    takethehighroad said:

    Trek won 7 in a row at the turn of the century.

    Or, at least, I remember them doing it

    Lol
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    edited September 2020
    mididoctors said:

    ugo.santalucia said:

    Did anyone ever win the Tour on a Cannondale?

    Ryder the giro maybe?

    That was a Cervelo. Basso and Di Luca on the other hand did win on Cannondales.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    RichN95. said:

    mididoctors said:

    ugo.santalucia said:

    Did anyone ever win the Tour on a Cannondale?

    Ryder the giro maybe?

    That was a Cervelo. Basso and Di Luca on the other hand did win on Cannondales.
    Shleck's contador year win? Was that cervelo ?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    I nominate this for the most tedious thread ever.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    mididoctors said:

    RichN95. said:

    mididoctors said:

    ugo.santalucia said:

    Did anyone ever win the Tour on a Cannondale?

    Ryder the giro maybe?

    That was a Cervelo. Basso and Di Luca on the other hand did win on Cannondales.
    Shleck's contador year win? Was that cervelo ?
    Sastre..?
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Riis was on a painted/"rebadged" Pegoretti (not a Pinarello) as far as I'm aware.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    mididoctors said:

    RichN95. said:

    mididoctors said:

    ugo.santalucia said:

    Did anyone ever win the Tour on a Cannondale?

    Ryder the giro maybe?

    That was a Cervelo. Basso and Di Luca on the other hand did win on Cannondales.
    Shleck's contador year win? Was that cervelo ?
    Specialized
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,490
    edited September 2020
    Ben6899 said:

    Riis was on a painted/"rebadged" Pegoretti (not a Pinarello) as far as I'm aware.

    There was once a hidden acceptance that the top riders could ride the bike of their choice as long as it was painted correctly. Pegoretti was one of those.

    Helped by steel bikes looking fairly similar with the right paint.
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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,325
    Paint wins...

    Who was the last winner on a Look? FIgnon? Lemond? The Badger?
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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    Wilier
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    pblakeney said:

    Ben6899 said:

    Riis was on a painted/"rebadged" Pegoretti (not a Pinarello) as far as I'm aware.

    There was once a hidden acceptance that the top riders could ride the bike of their choice as long as it was painted correctly. Pegoretti was one of those.

    Helped by steel bikes looking fairly similar with the right paint.
    I'm fairly sure I read about Zulle riding a Litespeed painted as a Peugeot once upon a time.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    DeadCalm said:

    I nominate this for the most tedious thread ever.

    Mate, there's a thread on Carlton Kirby that's a gazillion pages and several centuries long.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    edited September 2020
    in fairness to that thread though, people just need a place to let off a Primal Scream.

    You've forgotten how bad he is!
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  • brundonbianchi
    brundonbianchi Posts: 689
    Merckx used frames built by Ernesto Colnago, when he was with the Molteni team, so I guess this year’s win wasn’t strictly speaking the first, for a Colnago.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    brundonbianchi said:

    Merckx used frames built by Ernesto Colnago, when he was with the Molteni team, so I guess this year’s win wasn’t strictly speaking the first, for a Colnago.

    If only this hadn’t been mentioned 20 posts above, it might have been interesting.

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