Great video. Really enjoyed the story of Hinault, one of the main riders when I got into the sport. La Vie Claire was on a different level when they came out. Stylish beyond words and with the Look pedal! After they subsided, teams like Z tried to emulate the avant-garde style by in my opinion, missed the mark. Noticed Hinault is still using a relatively straight block at the back. Anyone knows what saddle he has on the Look 795 at the start of the video?
I remember in 1989 the ADR team basically abandoned the Tour. He had 1 team mate left who (loaded up with water bottles) he took to Z-Peugeot. The lead swapped almost day by day in the mountains, with the last stage to decide it. The last TT in Paris resulted in the closest finish ever so far.
Back in 1977, Greg won the junior national championship after crashing twice. The story in Velo News was a classic view of things to come. He got second in 78 and then won again 79 with a solo finish (I was there). Then he goes on to win the junior world championships, the first American world male cycling champion ever. ( I believe there was a female world champion from America in the 60s). His talent was obvious from the beginning.
For all the morons that think GL was doping here's a little story. "Two weeks later I went there and they convinced me to do a club race, which I did. I showed up in tennis shoes, tank top and running shorts, 35-pound bike in the middle of the Reno winter. Everybody else had their leg warmers on, Italian bikes. I ended up getting second place out of it. It was a 28-mile race, 4 laps around a 7-mile loop right in front of my house". That's a 15 year old boy showing up at his first bike race with no training with crap equipment beating up on a bunch of grown men. GL was a freak. End of story
The man was a successful rider, a top tier rider on all accounts in his era. YET i feel horrible for him cuz he appeared to always come up short. That’s going to be his legacy. The rider that almost…
4:58 man what are you saying...! "Perfect for me and for someone else it won't be enough." Professional cyclists can only hope what you have achieved and normal person like me, can only dream. Have a great retirement 😇✌🏻
If you want to increase your tolerance to lactic acid -one word -beef. I was working in construction and I kept having a hard go of it , physically . My work partner , who was a cyclist and inline rollerblade racer , told me to eat steak, He said it will provide for endurance and for late, next day energy. He was right as I had an easier go of things working construction and once I left the field and got back into cycling the main thing I noticed was a reduced level of lacticity. Hey -don't take my word for it - try it.
