Hinault chute...
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
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Love how he just gets up and gets on with it. Legend.0
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Great images... I also love how he has to get off his bike (undo toeclips ) and walk on the climb of the Bastille in Grenoble (24%) - no compacts back then - and still wins the stage. And all this as a 22 year old in a year he won the Dauphine overall, LBL, Gent-Wevelgem and the GP des Nations0
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Funnily enough I was watching that the other day. He's always been my cycling hero. Watching him in 1978 on World of Sport made me want to race. Hard as nails.0
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Thanks for posting. Heavyweight. Those of you who got to watch him race (even if the coverage wasn't half what it is today) are very lucky.Contador is the Greatest0
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John Kline wrote:Funnily enough I was watching that the other day. He's always been my cycling hero. Watching him in 1978 on World of Sport made me want to race. Hard as nails.
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Absolute legend. I'm sure he must have punched a few people out in those clips somewhere!0
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Met him a few times over the years... can be a surly mo-fo, to say the least. There's a great tale about him in Tour of Sweden one year (which was pro-am) and the Russians were lining it out despite the pros calling 'piano'... Hinault gets the shits, sprints up the side of the peloton, takes his hands off the bars and behind his back, and rides next to the poor Ruskis in defiance! They cracked...0
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Great post Iain!
Here's another few from the same site:
http://www.ina.fr/sport/cyclisme/video/ ... lt.fr.html
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esafosfina1 wrote:Met him a few times over the years... can be a surly mo-fo, to say the least. There's a great tale about him in Tour of Sweden one year (which was pro-am) and the Russians were lining it out despite the pros calling 'piano'... Hinault gets the shits, sprints up the side of the peloton, takes his hands off the bars and behind his back, and rides next to the poor Ruskis in defiance! They cracked...
I've just looked up on my wall to see his picture is down.
A climbing picture Tour of Lombardy side view with railings and him sitting on the tops.Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 19720 -
That video should be played to every play-acting footballer as a lesson that someone breathing near you doesnt cause a near-death experience. Then the penalties for play-acting should be increased.0
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Love that, only ever seen photo's before. He gets off later on when the realization of what a near miss he had, hits him.
Never had posters of footballers or pop stars when I was a kid, just cyclists. Hinault was one of my favourites.0 -
Blimey, tough as old boots! Not seen these before, good stuff.0
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That's a great archive and you can purchase clips for download. I bought a 95 minute transmission of the Tom Simpson Ventoux stage of 1967 for a few Euros.
http://www.ina.fr/sport/cyclisme/video/ ... pe.fr.html0 -
The run (at least they used to) an open hill climb up the Bastille towards the end of the season every year. It's a beast of a climb, can't imagine tackling it after 200km!
It was always won by some rat faced midget everybody called "Blondie" when I was out there."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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