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How many Tour winners since, have even ridden Roubaix?Mr. Gipsy said:Yeah, Hinault does talks sh*t about everyone, but he was the last trully great champion. How many Tour winners since Hinault have won Paris-Roubaix and the Tour in the same year? Heck, how many Tour winners since have actually won Paris-Roubaix? Zero!
Mellow Velo said:How many Tour winners since, have even ridden Roubaix?
Just mentioning its name sends them into hibernation.
TRDean said:True, Lemond should get tons of credit for being a much more well rounded rider (full season) than Mr. Armstrong and the current crop of "specialists". Anyone see a rider coming along to change this? I mean one who will race the entire season and be good the entire season?
schadenfreude said:only one that comes to mind is...
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TRDean said:True, Lemond should get tons of credit for being a much more well rounded rider (full season) than Mr. Armstrong and the current crop of "specialists". Anyone see a rider coming along to change this? I mean one who will race the entire season and be good the entire season?
To me both were the same when it came down to classics. I think it has more to do with the american mentality than anything else.rapistwit said:It's true that riders are much more focused on single events these days but thats how it is across the sporting world (not just cycling). I think its a little unfair to rip on Armstrong for that. Besides, if my memory isn't failing me, Armstrong actually has won a classic or two and Lemond hasn't.
rapistwit said:It's true that riders are much more focused on single events these days but thats how it is across the sporting world (not just cycling).
rapistwit said:It's true that riders are much more focused on single events these days but thats how it is across the sporting world (not just cycling). I think its a little unfair to rip on Armstrong for that. Besides, if my memory isn't failing me, Armstrong actually has won a classic or two and Lemond hasn't.
grimpeur said:Could it come to this? The badger vs. the codger?![]()
elapid said:To be fair to Lemond, Armstrong won a classic (La Fleche Wallone, 1996; second in Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 1994; also won Clásica San Sebastián in 1995 and second in 1994) and the world championship (1993) in his pre-cancer days when he was well and truly a one-day rider.
elapid said:To be fair to Lemond, Armstrong won a classic (La Fleche Wallone, 1996; second in Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 1994; also won Clásica San Sebastián in 1995 and second in 1994) and the world championship (1993) in his pre-cancer days when he was well and truly a one-day rider. He made no such attempts other than to support Hincapie post-cancer when he was a TdF rider. Lemond rode both the classics and the tours in the same years.
BroDeal said:Heh. That was the year he tried using rockshox. Now we just need a pic of that crazy bike Bauer used one year.
Alpe d'Huez said:I think you're thinking of the full suspension Bianchi that Museeuw rode in 1994, no?
BroDeal said:No, Bauer used a bike with a seat tube angle near sixty degrees in 1993 or 1994. It was called the "stealth bike."
Thoughtforfood said:I remember that bike actually. It was a Merckx, or at least painted to look like one.
BroDeal said:Eureka! Does not show the saddle extension. That may have been outlawed before this pic was taken.
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BroDeal said:Eureka! Does not show the saddle extension. That may have been outlawed before this pic was taken.
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