It's hard to believe that Roy Knickman was only 22 years old here. I remember seeing coverage of the 1986 Giro d'Italia when he was on La Vie Claire and riding for Greg LeMond... he was only 20 then! Pro cycling has changed so much since back then. More than anything else, radio communications has killed the tactical element of the sport. I think the 1980s was the last great Golden Era in professional cycling. Thanks for the upload.
De Mol knew he'd pulled a real stunt with this one. I think his animal shout at the finish was a little "fuck you" to the big boys behind as well as pure joy and disbelief that the great escape actually worked.
Great video Bob I’ve watching the Tour de France for the last 35 years and still riding by the way I have the Vitus bike used by Lucho Herrera in la vuelta a España 1987 great bike.
Wow - blast from the past from the east coast. Forgot about Roy Knickman. Love to see these. I spent hours riding rollers in the basement during the east coast winters watching Roubaix and TDF videos.
I saw this on TV in 1988 and it still looks good. The great camera angles convey the speed of the race- Also the music blends perfectly with the drama. Wegmuller would have blew past de Mol easily- with out that mechanical.... Fabulous race....
+Derek Tan : Intro and one other part were Geoffrey Downes, "The Light Program," but most of the music was by none other than John Tesh and was only ever released on cassette tape. This is when I was getting into cycling (started road racing in 1989, still doing it today), and the music that CBS used alongside their commentary was part of what ignited my imagination.
+Garrick Mitchell Hey thanks. I also started road racing in 1989...... and still going today! This music brings back those teenage memories of watching this coverage on TV. Would love to get some of this music to train too, it is so inspiring! All the best with your racing, I wonder how many other guys like us are out there?
i must be an idiot also !! I still ride a steel bike with no helmet a 1978 Claud Butler with reynolds 531 forks. though i now wear gloves..! i must be getting soft.
IN 1989 I rode a steel frame Reynoldds 531 and recorded my to date fastest Time trial speed on it of 39.2 KmH average speed. 25 years on with all the TT technology and so called enhancements I still havent matched that speed on the flat.
CBS Sports had the best coverage of European bike racing, two races only , Paris Roubaix and the Tour. The music by John Tesh, Vangelis, and Yanni, always made me wanna go for a ride.
Carlos G. Monzon-Guzman woahh, cool, ill look them up. I did knew that about Alcala, actually he is from Monterrey Mexico where i live! Got to briefly meet him about a year ago on one of his recovery rides. By the way, what an amazing paris roubaix race this was! Currently watching live post race interview with Van Avermaet haha, 45km/hr , just incredible.
The title sounds like an Indiana Jones film. Indiana Jones and the Evil Stones of Arenberg. Great video.i loved that era of cycling. Liggett has long been my favourite commentator.
thnx for the upload. De Mol just took a draft, rested, realized he had the psychologic advantage this late in the race, and knew the race was his to win...
Thomas Wegmuller should have been the winner. Poor guy. Dirk De Mol lucked out. Did you hear his crazy laugh as he crosses the finish line? He cheated the fates and he knew it.
33:45 It's correct for de Mol to not attack while his rival is getting mechanical repairs. It's not 'ironic' in as much as it is a cycling 'code' amongst the professionals.
"The duo of Demol and Wegmuller forged on towards the streets of Roubaix and the finish line. The finish would not be in the Velodrome this year as the organisers experimented with a finish by the factory of their sponsor La Redoute." by By Sadhbh O'Shea on CyclingNews. www.cyclingnews.com/features/1988-paris-roubaix-the-day-the-breakaway-won/
Uh, they had oakleys (see Hampsten) and carbon was around. I think some were even using fiber bikes in the hell of the north. Lemond had already won the tour in '86 on a fiber bike. -R
Does anyone have footage of this 1988 race from channel 5 or anything other than cbs? I'm sure there was lots of good stuff that went on we didn't get here
This is a long time after your post, but the music is a mix of John Tesh, Geoffrey Downes and Yanni...Tesh did an early Tour de France album from around 1985-almost impossible to find-quite a few songs here are from that album. He then produced "Tour De France", and "Tour de France the Early Years". Geoffrey Downes did "The New Light Orchestra". Yanni had several albums..Keys to Imagination, Chameleon Days, Out of Silence and Reflections of Passion.
@@jasoncolquhoun35 The music from the 1987 John Tesh cassette can be found here, ru-vid.com/show-UCzJcBCSc67A4svy135CgzVQvideos, the Geoffrey Downes and Yanni stuff can be found without too much difficulty.
It had to do with a Sponsor of the race at the time...I believe 86,87 and 88 all finished in front of the Sponsors factory...I could be wrong, but I remember something about that. I photographed the race in 1999 after having been a rider in France in the earlier 90's. It was epic.
Arthur Mitchell --- There were radios, the team cars and the race officials had radios, calling out the crashes, punctures etc. All the radios do now is add the element of team tactics. Which isn't much different from Eddy Mercx yelling at his team mates to force the pace much like Sky do today. The tactics were the same, the radios merely facilitate ease of communication.
The '87 coverage was better in my opinion. The music, extra footage, and script in this one were almost identical to the previous year's. John Dockery was a much better commentator than the guy (not Phil) narrating this one.
