Amstel Gold Race 1997 - Bjarne Riis great solo win (highlights) 

He says he broke a spoke in the wheel, it was out of true. By how much we don't know, but this guy was cold, cold to take the decision to change the wheel late in the race like that. Notice the SRM box as well, probably one of the first in the peloton

Funny thing is why the front one and not the rear one......

The Danish commentary at 0.36 Riis says that have just gotten the last thing he lagged to ride with the best

Haha 😂

Den var god :-)

That aged well

Ive heard rumors of mr 60 % but what actual knowledge do we know?

@@telmolicious It was just a nickname. In the court case against Francesco Conconi the highest hematocrit recorded on Riis was 56.3%

+Marcodes "The big dane was very powerful" o.O ja deeeet

EPOOOOOO 😁

Fordi han var mere seriøs med sin træning end de andre dopede. Det var jo ikke sådan, at man fik et skud i røven og straks fik man superkræfter. Der skulle stadig arbejdes seriøst for formen.

@@goranmadridista7541 exactly coz the others were clean,,really a bad cheater

Yeah, I think it's Shamal wheels😉

yes, it was the trend of that time, Lower frame but longer top tube, and seat position too rear

Greg Lemond was a pioneer of that position, it was called Lemond Geometry.

@Nobleazure It was actually Cyril Guimard, director of the Renault team (Lemonds first pro team) who came up with the long and low position. All the Renault riders of the time were fitted this way...Lemond, Hinault, Fignon, Mottet, Madiot etc.

John, I would agree with you. I guess Greg, being a pioneer, helped make it famous. He wrote about the relaxed geometry in his book. I googled "Lemond Geometry " and had many hits. I recently had a bike fit, and the guy asked where I picked up my position and foot angle on the pedal stroke, and I said Greg Lemond! He was an older dude and laughed!

Despite how it looks, i've tried it and it is actually really really comfortable like that. I found it helps me engage my mid back and lats properly somehow. Personally don't like too low bars but can do with a longer reach.

Always been like that, always will, it's just the "substance" that changes...hopefully for their health said substances are getting less dangerous over time.

Yeah, that is the same lie told by all doping cheats like Riis and their boot licking supporters. :-)

Robert Gardner God i are naive 😂

It was also very widespread amongst the elite amateur scene. Most riders doped to get a pro contract, infact at top level riders were doping already in U19's. However, regardless of how many doped or how widespread it was it will always be cheating. Top level cycling is mostly just the best of the dishonest people and NOT the best of the best. Most of the honest guys leave the sport behind. If no one ever cheated perhaps guys like Riis and Armstrong would still have won but perhaps not. We will never know.

what the fuck? in the middle of the 90s Armstrong was struggling with cancer

Nobody “forced” anyone to go doping, but it has been a part of the professionel cycling since two guys decided to race for glory.

Bill Swanson 62%?

That's a myth.

Conservative estimate

64%

You would be more likely to die than to win a pro cycling race with a hematocrit level that high.

Because Tafi was clean?😂

He was dope too everyone was on doping that time

You're delusional haha

Yeah, that lie is told by all doping cheats like Riis and their boot locker supporters.

Tafi's name was on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004.