Great Breakway Riders...

[El Pistolero]

The Giro of course has a classification that measures pretty much that: kms spent in a lead group of less than 10 riders, the Trofeo Fuga.

Recent Winners:
2010 Jérôme Pineau
2009 Mauro Facci
2008 Fortunato Baliani
2007 Mikhail Ignatiev
2006 Christophe Edaleine
2005 Sven Krauss
2004 Daniele Righi
2003 Constantino Zaballa

I think they also hold track of that in the Tour. It's just unofficial.

 

[ak-zaaf]

The Giro of course has a classification that measures pretty much that: kms spent in a lead group of less than 10 riders, the Trofeo Fuga.

Recent Winners:
2010 Jérôme Pineau
2009 Mauro Facci
2008 Fortunato Baliani
2007 Mikhail Ignatiev
2006 Christophe Edaleine
2005 Sven Krauss
2004 Daniele Righi
2003 Constantino Zaballa

2007 with Ignatiev and Brutt in every single break was great

 

[icefire]

And in winning Flanders reduces many a Belgian fan to tears!

My list
Bernard Hinault - LBL 1980
Charly Mottet - Lombardia 1988
Pantani - Les Deux Alpes 1998

OMFG, how can you forget Chiappucci - Sestriere 1992?

 

[ultimobici]

OMFG, how can you forget Chiappucci - Sestriere 1992?

Nope, just don't think it rates as high as these.

 

[xmoonx]

? He's won one race from a breakaway, if you could call it that. The rest of them in sprints of a larger group. He's not your typical breakaway rider.

Well I was thinking:
Paris Nice, stage 3- where he went in a break 6k from the finish (finished 1st)
Paris Nice, stage 5- attacked 3k from the finish (finished 1st)
Tour Down Under, stage 5- he went w Sanchez, Evans, Valverde from 25k out (finished 5th)
Not Jacky Durand but not bad either for a first year Neo-Pro; the point is he will definitely go.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

Floyd Landis

Oh now, that's a good one!

 

[Trev_S]

In no particular order.
Jakob Piil, Jens Voigt, Stuey O'grady, Juan Antonio Flecha.

 

[hfer07]

 

[mulletCobra]

don't forget Jens Voight

Indeed. He was great.

 

[cobblehead]

LEGEND!!

 

[arnaud]

You've forgotten great champions!: Cancellara and Gilbert who could lead large escapes alone in major races in 2010

And vino , too
remind Gilbert in Het VOLK , ,the second he won : 100 kms partially alone, he made the gap in a a strategic climb (monteberg i think) and fell on a small group he left a few kms after to win the race. Madiot said him to wait but he refused to.

Because of teams managers (wage administers actually) and sport directors who brake their riders, it has become rare this kind of exploit

BUT CHAMPS REMAIN

And contador is not obviously

 

[Parrulo]

And contador is not obviously

is not a champ? or a breakaway rider? cus the first one he sure is.

 

[michaeld]

Watching Gilbert in the FDJ days, he is the breakaway rider.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Well I was thinking:
Paris Nice, stage 3- where he went in a break 6k from the finish (finished 1st)
Paris Nice, stage 5- attacked 3k from the finish (finished 1st)
Tour Down Under, stage 5- he went w Sanchez, Evans, Valverde from 25k out (finished 5th)
Not Jacky Durand but not bad either for a first year Neo-Pro; the point is he will definitely go.

Thibault Pinot went in as many breaks in the Tour de Romandie alone as Sagan did all year. Nobody's disputing that Sagan will get into attacks and that he is a better rider, but he's not really an eternal breakaway rider. Not like a Hoogerland or Vino character who will attack and attack again near the end (though he may have potential to turn into one), nor like a de Gendt, Txurruka or Pineau character who will get into the break from 200km out day after day. Or a Thomas Voeckler, who will do both.

 

[masking_agent]

Thierry Marie. 1991 Tour de France stage to Le Havre (?). 234km solo breakaway resulting in a stage win and the yellow jersey.

(Sorry if someone's already mentioned him).

yup.. I second it.. Marie gets my vote

 

[arnaud]

Watching Gilbert in the FDJ days, he is the breakaway rider.

he still is : look at the last Giro di Lombardia

he's a real rider "un vrai coursier" as we say in french and he don't need to choice between Rvv and LBL as cancellara do , who think about his weight as a mannequin

 

[arnaud]

is not a champ? or a breakaway rider? cus the first one he sure is.

i mean this: if he should stop his career today ( i hope not) , he won't be a part of the cycling legend, because of his lack of panache
and he has to be grateful to ASO : thanks to it, he won vuelta and giro (he never raced before)
he has no imagination and raced classics only in 2010, which is already his 8th season

Voigt is a bigger champion than him , less annoying at least

i was a fan at the beginning of his career , in Paris Nice when he attacked every day
But surely not in TDF

 

[Jan the Man]

I haven't read through the thread but here are a few which came to my mind-

Thomas Voeckler
Jerome Pineau
Pierrick Fedrigo
Sandy Casar
Sylvain Chavanel
Jose Luis Arrieta
Amets Tuxurra
Thomas de Gent
Jens Voigt
Fabian Wegmann
Juan Antonio Flecha
Carlos Barredo
Nikki Terpstra

 

[Matthijs]

i mean this: if he should stop his career today ( i hope not) , he won't be a part of the cycling legend, because of his lack of panache
and he has to be grateful to ASO : thanks to it, he won vuelta and giro (he never raced before)
he has no imagination and raced classics only in 2010, which is already his 8th season

Voigt is a bigger champion than him , less annoying at least
...

yeah right. You probably don't know that in spain smaller stage races (every provence seems to have it's own) are the big deal and the classics are for northern europeans, some italians and lost spaniards likeflecha/freire?