Great Cycling Photos

[Forever The Best]

Post some great cycling photos (can be great due to various factors: scenery, fans etc.)
I will start with: 2019 Tour de Suisse stage 7, Bernal winning at St. Gottard with the Swiss mountains in the background (for some reason image doesn't show):
http://www.steephill.tv/2019/tour-de-suisse/photos/stage-07/315-CORVOS_00031161-065.jpg

 

[CyclistAbi]

Considering it's Giro and considering there were two special stages in last two editions i will add one picture from each.

 

[will-10]

 

[will-10]

 

[rallybanana]

Roger De Vlaeminck on the way to winning his 4th Paris–Roubaix in 1977.

The cobbled sector is from Cysoing to Gruson. The sector doesn't exist in full anymore as a TGV line was built through the middle of it in the 1990s.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Way before my time, but I like these old pictures because things were obviously very different back then. (Also love the simplicity of the bikes!)



Seeing as I'm all about the scenery I'm glad they were able to capture some of it in this photo of the Mendola climb at the 1959 Giro.



Have to have some snowy mountain pictures, this is Charly Gaul climbing the Grossglockner at the Tour of Austria when he was just 17.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

I see your Roger and I raise you my Tom

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Some images that in my nearly 20 years of being a fan have stayed with me:

Johnny in the Tour + Laurens in the Tour

Tyler and Wouter's teammates in the Giro

And now for a more cheerfull tone:
Julien Fouchard, the most beautiful and stylish positioning on the bike (ever)

Yves after his TDF upset:

And finally:
Anthony Charteau in the Polka Dots

 

[BigCoward]

The beat cycling picture is Poulidor and Jaques leaning into each other on PdD.

 

[Izzyeviel]

You will never understand how much this meant to me nor how much jumping around & yelling with delight I did (I'm a cripple, jumping around is very painful for me, & I did a lot of it).

we all cried with this one didnt we?

My first cycling memory.

This was the first bike race i watched from start to finish. I thought cycling was always like this...

How it ended

 

[Izzyeviel]

& of course, the greatest of all time.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Bumping this, so that it's presence can appease @Tobi who has tried to start a similar thread (which I have now deleted) this evening.

 

[Cookster15]

Wow, these are indeed iconic pictures.

This was the first bike race i watched from start to finish. I thought cycling was always like this...

Been watching since 1992. That day in the '98 Tour remains the greatest day of racing I have ever followed (in those days had to settle for the 30 minute stage highlights on SBS). I had resigned myself to Ullrich going back to back. Then Marco did the impossible. Just epic and incredible.

 

[Cassirer]

Not that great a picture in itself, but contador vs. andy is basically when I started watching cycling. Somehow I always rather cheered for the young david than the goliath in these duels, it was the same a few years later:

 

[Izzyeviel]

Poor Andy will always be a 'what if...'