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Best Trophy in Cycling!

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What is your favourite trophy for a race in world cycling?

(It would be appreciated if you could post a pic of the trophy for everyone of which you are reffering to)
 
Giro

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Mar 11, 2009
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It's all about the cobblestone, mainly because of the hilarity of asking a guy to lift a huge damn rock over his head after he has just completed 260km of the most brutal bike racing in the world.
 
Mar 11, 2009
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Does this count as a trophy?
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Agree with the Giro trophy. Piece of art. Liked the Tirenno trident also.

And a Kuurne donkey :D
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May 11, 2009
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Rolf Sørensen once got a cow when he won a stage in TDF in 1996. Funny thing.


But the cobble stone is the best trophy. No doubt.
 
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If you win a Vuelta stage in Toledo, you get a sword.

Which is obviously pretty awesome.
 
Mar 18, 2009
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Timmy-loves-Rabo said:
nothing beats a piece of rock

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+1. The cobblestone epitomizes Paris-Roubaix. Not fancy, big or expensive, but it says it all about the race and the type of rider who wins PR.
 
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but Most Aggressive rider at TdF gets his body weight in cheese, and the Laterne Rouge at TdF gets a pig. Oh, what I would give to be both.
 
Mar 18, 2009
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When Tafi won P-R they gave him an extra cobblestone and he incorporated it into the house he was building.

Combativity proze used to involve the riders own weight in Coeur de Lion cheese but they stopped it a few years ago (boo)
 
Mar 11, 2009
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In a TV show this week Eric Vanderaerden showed the cobble he got for winning Roubaix in '87. It was a small solid-gold cobble. He said he would have rather wanted a normal cobblestone because that looked so much cooler.


/Also have to love the meter long sausage you get when you win the mountainsprint on the Grossglockner.

This is the 'Toledo sword':
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Mar 18, 2009
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ak-zaaf said:
In a TV show this week Eric Vanderaerden showed the cobble he got for winning Roubaix in '87. It was a small solid-gold cobble. He said he would have rather wanted a normal cobblestone because that looked so much cooler.


/Also have to love the meter long sausage you get when you win the mountainsprint on the Grossglockner.

This is the 'Toledo sword':
vlt09st20-sword.jpg

Ahhh Vanderaerden...great days!!!

That sword is definitely sweet!!
 
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TRDean said:
That sword is definitely sweet!!
Takes the focus off his cameltoe. :D


Now I want a Toledo stage won by Cancellara. Spartacus with sword would make a great podium pic.