What you don't like grey???
I agree...Think of all the cool team kit from older years..Look, Mapei, Peugeot, Renault...
I agree...Think of all the cool team kit from older years..Look, Mapei, Peugeot, Renault...
@newfydog Real dogs in his time were Cippolini, McEwen, Pettachi Of course I can be wrong, but I never considered Zabel as top sprinter.
Cippo probably still has record of most victories in pro cycling,
And Sepp Kuss goes and wins a stage today! Good job.
This is HUGE, and deserving of its own thread!
I'm running out the door right now, but will post something when I get back, if @martyg doesn't beat me to it (hometown kid, for him).
Ooops I wasn't checking, but I had in my memory that at the time he was still racing they were telling he has most pro victories ever. Obviously I got that wrong. Thanks for correctionThere is a guy named Merckx who owns that title. Cippo won 167, but Cav and Andre Greipel still active and very close, at 160 and 163. Merckx won 287.
Does anyone have any ideas about what new substance has hit the peloton this year? Pogachar dropping the whole peloton in the mountains casually riding a big ring??? Two.days.in.a.row? Really? 36 year old Cavendish who could not do much last few years suddenly "rediscovering" his form and winning TDF stages left and right from guys 10 years younger than him? Well-known breakaway specialists finding that they push their career-high wattage and suddenly cannot get away from anyone? Experienced GC riders finishing mountain stages in the grupetto??? This is just way too many miracles to my taste. This is reminiscent of the start of the EPO era when LeMond won the Tour one year and next suddenly could not keep up with the peloton...
Sepp was actually a neighbor, and his parents still live here. His dad was a US Nordic Team coach, and that was Sepp's path. Mtn bike racing took over. And the rest, as they say, is history. He is an amazingly humble guy. Always willing to hang with me for a minute on training rides to chat, when he's back in Durango.
5'11" - 134lbs. Man.For those who haven't seen John Eustice's essay on Pogačar :
Pogačar v LeMond — John Eustice
By 22-years-old LeMond had won the Dauphinè and was World Champion, Pogačar at the same age already has a Tour de France in the pocket plus a Liège-Bastogne-Liège, but exact time/result comparisons can’t be measured because of the differences in eras.www.pelotonperspectives.com
It's true about that back style. I remember setting up bikes back in the day with people who thought that was the "winning" style.
I'm getting a Steve Bauer flashback right now.
27kmh @9%.....