Classic Racing Pics

[Kingsley A]

lol this looks more like a bunch of WWII bomber pilots

Lol, more like WWI!

 

[schadenfreude]

 

[Anonymous]

Fall, Fall again, Fall Better!

 

[seether]

I wanted to add to the fans getting karmic payback part of this thread.

I wonder if Bart Wellens spent time in his training practicing for this.

 

[progressor]

I wanted to add to the fans getting karmic payback part of this thread.

I wonder if Bart Wellens spent time in his training practicing for this.

That's awesome - I like that guy!

 

[Aapjes]

I wanted to add to the fans getting karmic payback part of this thread.

I wonder if Bart Wellens spent time in his training practicing for this.

Great picture. The faces of Bart and the people in the crowd are wonderful.

 

[Escarabajo]

Tom Simpson

For a while, nothing happened. There was no inquest in either Britain or France. Then a British reporter, J. L. Manning of the Daily Mail, broke the news:

Tommy Simpson rode to his death in the Tour de France so doped that he did not know he had reached the limit of his endurance. He died in the saddle, slowly asphyxiated by intense effort in a heatwave after taking methylamphetamine drugs and alcoholic stimulants forbidden by French law. This information was given to me at authorised interviews with senior police officers during a week's investigation in the south of France... Police reports were that three glass tubes were found in his racing jersey satchel at Avignon, where he was taken after his death. Two were empty. The third contained tablets.

In the lower slopes:

No Oxygen:

Memorial:

Tom Simpson: The Lion of Yorkshire

Monuments in Cycling:
http://home-1.tiscali.nl/~edwinsel/misc_monuments.htm

 

[Anonymous]

Happy Frenchmen

When TiTi "The Man" in the '05 TdF. Doesn't that pic say sheer joy?

One of Caroline Yang's great photos
http://www.carolineyang.com/

 

[Black-Balled]

is that all you gotsk?

 

[Anonymous]

is that all you gotsk?

im really trying to think of something to say about that...

but for once, the picture really does say everything.

 

[Bala Verde]

im really trying to think of something to say about that...

but for once, the picture really does say everything.

I am telling you, that's much better than JB passing you a bottle from a car...

 

[Black-Balled]

For your nutzzz now:

 

[robow7]

is that all you gotsk?

I'm afraid I don't get the point(s)

 

[Cosette]

Tour de France '06; stage 10

 

[MrContador]

The duel on the volcano: Jacques Anquetil and always-second Raymond Poulidor battling neck-to-neck for the Tour win in 1964. A classic.

 

[Bala Verde]

Not a pic but a vid:

Paris Roubaix 1976

Moser and Roubaix

 

[Escarabajo]

Not a pic but a vid:

Paris Roubaix 1976

Moser and Roubaix

Thanks Bala. Nice video. Moser really understood the concept of aerodynamics.

 

[krebs303]

No help for Giusto Cerutti
Italian Giusto Cerutti has a broken wheel after a fall. According to the rules he is not alowed to accept help. Tour de France 1928. Location unknown.

 

[krebs303]

Felix Sellier is angry after being hit by a car. Tour de France, early 1920s.

 

[krebs303]

Cyclists can't wait crossing the closed barrier of a railway crossing. Tour de France, July 1932. Location unknown.

 

[Angliru]

LA down after a snagged musette bag being waved by a fan

Armstrong himself admitted that he was riding too close to the fans when this happened. He had an entire road of space to choose his line. Plus it wasn't some wayward fan running alongside dangerously but a child standing in place on the side of the road with other fans holding a mussette given out by the Tour organization.

 

[krebs303]

 

[fatandfast]

the vintage photos are fantastic

 

[Offtheback]

Yes he is a fan. He just wants to see clean racing. I will never understand why I have to accept doping, and the extent to which it is done to be a "fan." He and I both love cycling, we just hate what doping does to the sport we love.

Pushing a man down who was in no way threatening the safety of the riders (because they are approaching from behind and can move to their left easily) was a bully move. We have come to expect as much from Lance. He is nothing but a bully.

Well you and I have different viewpoints. You see a young man who is a fan of cycling, hates doping and is, I therefore assume, a fan of healthy clean living. Well he must be to want to display to the world, with his harpoon, his distaste of the idea of putting chemicals in the body of healthy people.

I see a grossly overweight idiot, who wants to call attention to himself with his harpoon, blind to the fact that he discredits cycling, by presumably avoiding riding a bike himself, indulging in gluttony and showing total disrespect to elite athletes riding their hearts out for the thousands of genuine sports fans who have come to watch them.

I disagree also that his actions could be considered safe. A fat load of blubber, running uphill on show covered roads, carrying a harpoon right next to a pack of riders on skinny tyres is an accident waiting to happen.

If you yourself, TFT, have ever actually been in a bike race where stupid public try and cross in front of you, or wave a banner in your face, or ***-slap you as you ride by, you will have felt the ire that Lance probably felt. He hasn't been the first to lash out at irresponsible public; but maybe the first to be called a "bully" for it! Oh boo hoo, you namby pamby. Sheeesh!

 

[krebs303]

Cow looking at racing cyclist Jules Buysse, who will win the first stage (Evian-Mulhouse). Tour de France 1926. Location unknown.