Awesome documentary - GIRO '74

[sartoris]

This Tour's so boring I spent my Tour time Youtubing cycling stuff and came across with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8oh9gy7uvs&feature=g-vrec

Really worth a look if you are losing the passion. Enjoy!

 

[hfer07]

This Tour's so boring I spent my Tour time Youtubing cycling stuff and came across with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8oh9gy7uvs&feature=g-vrec

Really worth a look if you are losing the passion. Enjoy!

Indeed a Jewel

Fuente to me had so much elegance & style while climbing- even with that kind of gearing.The video puts in evidence why the Giro for so many fans around the world is more Important than the Tour.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Agree. That's my favorite video ever. Really inspiring to watch. And something classically beautiful about it.

This year's Tour reminds me of some of Mig's wins. He was a great rider and humble champion, but his Tour wins were mostly dull as dishwater.

 

[sartoris]

Bumping it up to give you guys a last chance to watch this

You won't regret it !!

 

[Echoes]

A Sunday in Hell >>>>>>>>>>>> The Greatest Show on Earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4IDCkcnnHg

 

[FitSsikS]

This Tour's so boring I spent my Tour time Youtubing cycling stuff and came across with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8oh9gy7uvs&feature=g-vrec

Really worth a look if you are losing the passion. Enjoy!

It's interesting looking back and seeing all of the 'head bobbing' during the climbs.

Gear shifting was way less frequent in those days.

With my pathetic wattage (coupled with a low redline) and more modern technology, I'm constantly shifting.

 

[Hawkwood]

I saw both films in one evening in a Surrey cinema around 1980, they looked great on a big screen. I think a `normal' mountain set-up for the pros then was 52/53 and 42/44 x 13-23, so the climbs were real head bobbing slogs. I ran 52/42 x 13-21 most of the time and could get up most North Wales climbs, oddly I couldn't do that now 30 years later!

 

[sartoris]

A Sunday in Hell >>>>>>>>>>>> The Greatest Show on Earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4IDCkcnnHg

EPIC !! Cheers, my!

 

[DominicDecoco]

This Tour's so boring I spent my Tour time Youtubing cycling stuff and came across with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8oh9gy7uvs&feature=g-vrec

Really worth a look if you are losing the passion. Enjoy!

Absolutely loved that! Cheers for that, sartoris.

00:20:50 - Look at them running!

And was that some sound effects or what!? Haha! They were so ridiculous that I ending up loving them.

 

[sartoris]

Absolutely loved that! Cheers for that, sartoris..

Thanks, my!

00:20:50 - Look at them running!..

"...the owners of these places usually feel quite flattered" Hell yeah !!

And was that some sound effects or what!? Haha! They were so ridiculous that I ending up loving them.

It took some time into the documentary for me to realize the sound was dubbed. Nice try from the edition staff, though

 

[DominicDecoco]

Someone with influence must be reading this forum, eh? Movie taken down right after this thread was brought up again...

 

[DominicDecoco]

Bumping it up to give you guys a last chance to watch this

You won't regret it !!

Can see it's taken down now. Why was it a last chance'? You knew it would be taken down?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

This is one of the all time great races, and proof, in case proof were needed, that José Manuel Fuente is awesome in all ways and the embodiment of all that is good about cycling. Probably my all time favourite, and though he won two Vueltas this Giro was probably his finest moment - simply the breathtaking audacity of his endless drive to take back the time lost into Sanremo, and that I will probably never grow bored of watching Fuente climb mountains.

 

[sartoris]

Can see it's taken down now. Why was it a last chance'? You knew it would be taken down?

Taken down indeed I said last chance cause the thread was way down in the forum, so I bumped it. I had no idea the flick was going to be removed. Not that I'd mind reading the future, tho.

But look, I just found it in several pieces:

https://www.google.es/search?source...The+Greatest+Show+on+Earth+1974+Giro+d'Italia

Watch now before it's taken down again. You're gonna love it! Take care...

 

[DominicDecoco]

I'd almost think that someone with influence reads this forum, eh? There were plenty of documentaties about cycling that worked - all taken down now.