Classic Racing Pics

[Michele]

Ladies and gentleman, that is Gianni Bugno pictured last year with Fondriest. He's a helicopter rescue pilot these days, folks!

He started to study for get the helicopter license when he was still riding a bike and every said that was his dream.

Nowdays he pilot the helicopter also during some major races in Italy like Milan-Sanremo and Giro.

 

[ravens]

Since we are entertaining requests....

I would love to see more pics of AC with the St Bernard he won on the Verbier Stage. It's the funniest thing I have seen in cycling.

In the only photographic evidence I have found online, his new best friend looks just a little tooo happy....

I didn't know viagra counted as a PED....

 

[luckyboy]

Boonen's Pâté


Also, I had a thread in some Italian forum bookmarked - had like 70+ pages of classic cycling photos. I lost it last week

 

[Willy_Voet]

 

[velocycling]

I'll never get tired of this one from the 2007 Giro d'Italia: Julio Alberto Perez spears Leonardo Piepoli.

I thought is was just Perez giving Piepoli his CERA

 

[battery89]

Recent but I love the facial expressions and Bennati's look.

 

[Dexter]

found a video showing some of these events...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYnfWP9t0Kk

Bart Wellens

Marcus Burghardt

Julio Alberto Perez spears Leonardo Piepoli

 

[flyor64]

He started to study for get the helicopter license when he was still riding a bike and every said that was his dream.

Nowdays he pilot the helicopter also during some major races in Italy like Milan-Sanremo and Giro.

Very cool indeed.

Thanks for the pic!

 

[thehog]

What's the story with this one? From Paris-Nice.

 

[luckyboy]

"Riders attacking the public is not unknown either: when protesters stopped a stage of the Paris-Nice bike race in the 1980s, Bernard Hinault got off his bike and punched one of them, who hit the deck. The race continued."

 

[Jamsque]

"Riders attacking the public is not unknown either: when protesters stopped a stage of the Paris-Nice bike race in the 1980s, Bernard Hinault got off his bike and punched one of them, who hit the deck. The race continued."

Further proof, as if you needed it, that you do not mess with the Badger

 

[craig1985]

I took this at a local crit. The guy one the ground, had already been dropped from the race (he was in A grade), and coming around the corner, he was riding on his own and managed to somehow crash. It's a sharp corner, but anybody with the slightest bit of corning skills will get around it, even in the bunch. What made it even better is that this guys is as popular as a fart in a lift.

 

[42x16ss]

Further proof, as if you needed it, that you do not mess with the Badger

Phil Anderson doesn't look very impressed either. If that was a mountain stage I'd be p!ssed off too if I was either of them, the spectators could have cost them the race!!!

 

[knewcleardaze]

What's the story with this one? From Paris-Nice.

Looks to me like the Badger is serving up a knuckle sandwich.

 

[Jamsque]

I don't know why that guy is running away, he should be proud to be assaulted by a legend of the sport!

 

[L'arriviste]

I don't know why that guy is running away, he should be proud to be assaulted by a legend of the sport!

Looks like the flairy nostrils of a young Phil Anderson joining in too, and who'd want to mess with him?

 

[thehog]

Looks like the flairy nostrils of a young Phil Anderson joining in too, and who'd want to mess with him?

Important to keep the tan lines in check. Every women knows this.

 

[craig1985]

 

[42x16ss]

He who hesitates...

 

[craig1985]

I really did think the breakaway would stay away.

 

[craig1985]

Notice the Basque fans in the top left corner.

 

[L'arriviste]

Notice the Basque fans in the top left corner.

And notice how most of the Liquigas team packed at the Koppenberg so they could get beer and 'dogs on the Kapelmuur instead.

 

[yetanothergreenworld]

Phil Anderson doesn't look very impressed either. If that was a mountain stage I'd be p!ssed off too if I was either of them, the spectators could have cost them the race!!!

If I recall, the protesters had set up camp on the descent of a minor col, which means that the riders had quite a fright coming 'round a corner at top speed and seeing the road suddenly full of people. I think that's a big reason why Hinault flipped out -- not that he didn't enjoy a good knuckle-duster anyway.

But do a youtube search for "hinault punch" and judge for yourself.

 

[yetanothergreenworld]

I don't know why that guy is running away, he should be proud to be assaulted by a legend of the sport!

If you watch the video, you'll notice that the guy who looks like he's running away screaming with his hands in the air is actually just waving his arms, yelling slogans, and then happens to look over his shoulder for a brief second. The magic of photography!

(Also notice a slightly alarmed looking Stephen Roche at left, partially obscured behind a middle-aged dude. And note the legs of two onlookers standing on the grassy hillside above the fray. What I wouldn't give for one of those seats!)

 

[Mellow Velo]