Great Vuelta pictures

[auscyclefan94]

Great Vuelta pictures thread. Post classic current and past Vuelta pictures in here.

 

[Escarabajo]

Let's start with Heras in Angliru:

 

[Bag_O_Wallet]

The caption says it all.

 

[Thomsena]

His shaving went horribly wrong didn't it.

 

[Bag_O_Wallet]

Maybe not a great picture, but IIRC an interesting point in history. Marco Giovannetti (1990) was the last rider to win a GT using toe clips.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Another classic moment in time:

Rubén Plaza posts the fastest ITT in the history of Grand Tour racing, averaging a mighty 56,22km/h in stage 20 of the 2005 edition.

He narrowly pipped this man by less than a second to the stage win (leading to another classic moment in time, of course):

 

[icefire]

I've always had a special affection for the 1983 edition, the first one who was live on TV.

This first pic is from the second mountain stage with finish at Vielha. Hinault had taken the lead the day before. Lejarreta, who was the defending champion dared to attack and carried with him two young men, both aged 23: Julián Gorospe, who was second in the stage, and an unknown guy not seen in the picture called Pedro Delgado.

Lejarreta won the stage and took the lead. He took one more minute on the Badger on a mountain TT but would lose three minutes on a crosswind split. He would gain time on Hinault again in Lagos de Covadonga but after the last ITT with three days to go Gorospe was the only one who managed to be ahead of Hinault on GC...

...but the old wizard had a plan he set to work

And it worked!

Only Lejarreta could follow. Gorospe was dropped with more than 60kms to go. The third man was Vicente Belda, who had been ahead in a break. The first chase group, led by Fignon, arrived to the finish three minutes later. Gorospe lost 20 minutes and would never recover to be the GC rider many saw in him.

There's video from that stage, though image quality is poor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BhcrZEqE5Y

 

[Cobblestoned]

 

[jens_attacks]

libertine as you say it,people will get that the riders were some kind of androids that day.in fact that time trial had a very strong tailwind from the start all the way up to the finish.
even purito the 101th placed rider has averaged 50 km/h.
the 2005 vuelta was one of the weakest in extraordinary performances.all what mattered:rabobank epic fail with just 2 guys to support menchov in the mountains,manolo saiz tactical genius with a brilliant team:scarponi,vicioso,serrano,de galdeano,beloki,baranowski,caruso.that was a top team.and of course heras risking his life on a descent,just there he actually put time on menchov and won la vuelta.


epic stuff^^^rip chava,rip vdb

 

[The Hitch]

 

[boomcie]

Thanks Cobble'd. Love it.

 

[Descender]

 

[Descender]

 

[Descender]

 

[jens_attacks]

nozal with his leader behind,chasing heras.can't miss paco's horrible,painfull to watch-style.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

One of my favourite moments in cycling.

 

[boomcie]

One of my favourite moments in cycling.

Nice gesture. Gotta love the guy.

 

[Anonymous]

 

[Escarabajo]

I've always had a special affection for the 1983 edition, the first one who was live on TV.

This first pic is from the second mountain stage with finish at Vielha. Hinault had taken the lead the day before. Lejarreta, who was the defending champion dared to attack and carried with him two young men, both aged 23: Julián Gorospe, who was second in the stage, and an unknown guy not seen in the picture called Pedro Delgado.

...

Lejarreta won the stage and took the lead. He took one more minute on the Badger on a mountain TT but would lose three minutes on a crosswind split. He would gain time on Hinault again in Lagos de Covadonga but after the last ITT with three days to go Gorospe was the only one who managed to be ahead of Hinault on GC...

...

...but the old wizard had a plan he set to work

...

And it worked!

...

Only Lejarreta could follow. Gorospe was dropped with more than 60kms to go. The third man was Vicente Belda, who had been ahead in a break. The first chase group, led by Fignon, arrived to the finish three minutes later. Gorospe lost 20 minutes and would never recover to be the GC rider many saw in him.

There's video from that stage, though image quality is poor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BhcrZEqE5Y

Thanks Icefire. I was going to post photos of this Vuelta as well, but I could not find them quick enough. Good stuff.

 

[la.margna]

 

[Kwibus]

I've always had a special affection for the 1983 edition, the first one who was live on TV.

etc.

Great stuff!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Oh, and love or hate the guy, this was awesome:

 

[Parrulo]

Oh, and love or hate the guy, this was awesome:

is there any video of that on youtube?i missed that stage last year <_<

 

[icefire]

is there any video of that on youtube?i missed that stage last year <_<

Last km of that stage. Video take isn't as good as the pic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZI2ApjWhQ