Even to this day, Indurain blames the weather and cracking on that one stage as destroying his tour. He felt he never recovered from it. I don't understand how this could be so, but I guess he would know. But it was still admirable how he kept fighting and dishonourable how Riis flaunted it in his face, like he was playing with him.
Best stage ever that one in 94 when he chased down Pantani with Leblanc. I remember him passing Pantani. Pantani tried to hook on, looked at his speedo and just shook his head as if to say "hey I've got a 60% hemocrite level, what the hell are you on". Would have liked to see the earlier stages of the climb, but they didn't show it.
Next best stage was probably 95 when he rode the peleton off his wheel with just the Hog on board.
I can't understand why they think his tours were boring. Unlike Armstrong who tried to win every mountain stage, Indurain use to let the breaks go and then chase them down later. He would ride people off his wheel without even attacking. Everyone use to try and attack him in the mountains. Pretty exciting stuff to me. Okay the results were probably not hard to predict, but that doesn't mean it's boring racing.
Best stage ever that one in 94 when he chased down Pantani with Leblanc. I remember him passing Pantani. Pantani tried to hook on, looked at his speedo and just shook his head as if to say "hey I've got a 60% hemocrite level, what the hell are you on". Would have liked to see the earlier stages of the climb, but they didn't show it.
Next best stage was probably 95 when he rode the peleton off his wheel with just the Hog on board.
I can't understand why they think his tours were boring. Unlike Armstrong who tried to win every mountain stage, Indurain use to let the breaks go and then chase them down later. He would ride people off his wheel without even attacking. Everyone use to try and attack him in the mountains. Pretty exciting stuff to me. Okay the results were probably not hard to predict, but that doesn't mean it's boring racing.