Favourite "Dirty" Performance

[Polish]

Marco trying to drop Evgeni on the Mortirolo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZwPBPJR4Bo

Final Giro GC 1994 Standings:
1 Eugeni Berzin Russia 100h 41' 21s Gewiss-Ballan
2 Marco Pantani Italy + 2' 51s Carrera Jeans-Tassoni
3 Miguel Indurain Spain + 3' 23s Banesto-Pinarello
4 Pavel Tonkov Russia + 11' 11s Lampre-Panaria
5 Claudio Chiappucci Italy + 11' 56s Carrera Jeans-Tassoni
6 Nelson Rodríguez Colombia + 13' 17s ZG Mobili-Selle Italia
7 Massimo Podenzana Italy + 14' 35s Navigare-Blue Storm
8 Gianni Bugno Italy + 15' 26s Polti-Vaporetto
9 Armand De Las Cuevas France + 15' 35s Castorama-MaxiSport
10 Andrew Hampsten United States

 

[MrContador]

Stephen Roche on La Plagne in 1987. One of the greatest efforts I have ever seen in professional cycling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQojh-wqL04&feature=related

 

[auscyclefan94]

Alberto on Verbier. A dominating performance...

 

[Libera]

1998 Ronde Ronde van Vlaanderen in which Johan Museeuw attacks several climbs out and solos for the win. I am partial to the classics and each time I see this, I am so motivated to get on my bike, find the closest hill, put it in the big ring and start mashing!!! Can't wait for Belgium classic season to get started. It is my favorite part of the season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnX4uaDYyIU

 

[auto de fé]

Can we change the name of this thread? The last few links were phenomenal. Perhaps we need a great moments on the road kind of thread. One that deleats the ruinous contributions from the f-ckers who ruin threads for lurkers like me.

Just a thought.

 

[auto de fé]

Double post.

I don't mean to down-grade the clinic aspect of this thread. I just thought some of the stuff people were linking to was exciting.

 

[ChrisE]

Nina Hartley in Rule Breaker.

I'm 7 posts into this thread, and I admit this made me lol. Good job TFT.

 

[buckwheat]

Nina Hartley in Rule Breaker.

My friend grabbed her crotch in Mints in Niagara Falls while her husband took a picture she autographed in '85. She was yelling, Keep it clean, keep it clean.

There was a favorable exchange rate and a lot of drinking going on, and we were young.

I'm really grasping for excuses here.

 

[Ferminal]

Can we change the name of this thread? The last few links were phenomenal. Perhaps we need a great moments on the road kind of thread. One that deleats the ruinous contributions from the f-ckers who ruin threads for lurkers like me.

Just a thought.

Yeh, we need a youtube thread!

 

[Libera]

Here's another...the setting is 1998 tour de france. At this point, Der Kaiser is in Yellow and the Pirate is an outside threat but nothing more. Today's stage is in the Alps and the weather is atrocious.

The Pirate, who doesn't give a shytt who's in Yellow attacks from a long way out...and you know the rest of the story.

From a sheer spectacle point view, the Pirate, on a mountain, was poertry in motion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2FQqHF8x5I

 

[epo1999]

I would have to say PR 1999. Tafi flats twice, if I recall correctly, bridges to a very elite group and then attacks over and over until he just rides away on a flat stretch, soloing for approx 25k. He was in the Italian National champs jersey, and it was truly bad-***! Got his signature on the cover of my video at the SF Grand Prix...

 

[Anonymous]

Another vote for Chiapucci Sestriere 1992. I watched that as a young (naive) 13yr cyclist in awe.

Riis '96 was my awakening. It was obvious that this old, bald guy who had never done anything of note before but could now ride people off his wheel in the mountains without even intending to was on something. It looked like Frasier had left his radio show and gone racing.

 

[karlboss]

landis 2006, mick rogers said afterwards landis went off the front at 40kph uphill.

 

[ChrisE]

My friend grabbed her crotch in Mints in Niagara Falls while her husband took a picture she autographed by in '85. She was yelling, Keep it clean, keep it clean.

There was a favorable exchange rate and a lot of drinking going on, and we were young.

I'm really grasping for excuses here.

I saw her performing "on tour" in a strip club in Houston in 1994. After she danced she got a microphone and asked the crowd if they had any questions. I raised my hand and asked her what the square root of 47 was. She went deer in the headlights and said math wasn't her good subject.

My buddy and I thought it was funny; everybody else in there looked as confused as she did. Guess you just had to be there.

That is my brush with fame. And, I saw LA in a crit one time!

 

[Animal]

For me, it's got to have been exciting at the time.

For the past few years, you see a "performance", and you can't get into it. It's just , "Hmm, he's prepared well". No excitement watching when you know it's a battle of pharmacists.

But in the old days...

Pantani throwing down his bandana and shades on the opening slopes of Alpe d'Huez and blasting away. Doped to the eyeballs, but he had charisma to spare!

Ullrich staying in the saddle and powering up Arcalis in 96. Taking the inside line on all the hairpins.

 

[Psalmon]

Tyler Hamilton's solo victory in stage 16 of the 2003 TDF with the broken collarbone. I think that's when I really started becoming skeptical about clean cycling in general.

+1

Especially when after the stage I think it was Lance who said that teams were sending five or so riders to the front at a time to bring him back, the peloton was moving at ~50 k/hr, and they would come back after 10 K totally exhausted while the time gap was either steady or increasing .

Tyler's only winning move at this point is to lay it all down.

 

[zapata]

Here's another...the setting is 1998 tour de france. At this point, Der Kaiser is in Yellow and the Pirate is an outside threat but nothing more. Today's stage is in the Alps and the weather is atrocious.

The Pirate, who doesn't give a shytt who's in Yellow attacks from a long way out...and you know the rest of the story.

From a sheer spectacle point view, the Pirate, on a mountain, was poertry in motion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2FQqHF8x5I

Hard to pick only one, but that's certainly one of my favourites.

 

[blaxland]

Lots of good ones already posted. It's really hard to choose from them all, but for me it's Riis at Hautacam in 96. That was before I lost my innocence in 98 (the doping one, the other is a bit over a decade earlier ). The way he moved backwards in the group to look at everybody and then rode past everybody was just mind blowing. As a Dane I cheered and yelled at my TV with joy. In 2007 with Rasmussen I just shook my head in disgust.

Have to agree....Bjarne was just awesome in 96.....

 

[patricknd]

lemond in that last time trial '89.

 

[Digger]

lemond in that last time trial '89.

Why? Evidence?

 

[podilato]

I remember a stage of the Giro (can't remember which specific year) and Pantani punctured at the worst possible time at the bottom of a hill. The cameras stayed on Pantani and forgot about the leaders. After the wheel change the cameras continued to follow him as he chased. He just flew past all the guys at the back like they were standing still but he just kept on going at full tilt going past everyone as the cameras continued to follow him. He then got to near the front and still he was going past the riders. After about 3-4 minutes he got to the front guys, waited, and then he attacked them after just having chased from way down the back of the splintered peloton.

It was really interesting to see the cameras just focus on him and go past everyone, even the top riders and then still be able to attack and drop them. It was inhuman.

 

[buckwheat]

Why?

Bromance!

Evidence?

Pillowtalk with Wonderboy!

 

[buckwheat]

I remember a stage of the Giro (can't remember which specific year) and Pantani punctured at the worst possible time at the bottom of a hill. The cameras stayed on Pantani and forgot about the leaders. After the wheel change the cameras continued to follow him as he chased. He just flew past all the guys at the back like they were standing still but he just kept on going at full tilt going past everyone as the cameras continued to follow him. He then got to near the front and still he was going past the riders. After about 3-4 minutes he got to the front guys, waited, and then he attacked them after just having chased from way down the back of the splintered peloton.

It was really interesting to see the cameras just focus on him and go past everyone, even the top riders and then still be able to attack and drop them. It was inhuman.

"It was inhuman."

In those 3 words you have illustrated the problem with doping.

Thank you.

 

[buckwheat]

I saw her performing "on tour" in a strip club in Houston in 1994. After she danced she got a microphone and asked the crowd if they had any questions. I raised my hand and asked her what the square root of 47 was. She went deer in the headlights and said math wasn't her good subject.

My buddy and I thought it was funny; everybody else in there looked as confused as she did. Guess you just had to be there.

That is my brush with fame. And, I saw LA in a crit one time!

I was hammered and she didn't look all that great in '85.

I really regret my dissipation.

It's sad and I'm sincere.

 

[laziali]

Anyone remember Gewiss' clean sweep in the '94 Fleche Wallone? - Argentin, Furlan and Berzin. Now that was pure comedy!!! Nice jerseys though ...