Photo Request...

[Alpe d'Huez]

Curious if anyone can point me to a photo of a pro rider, from almost any year, wearing #51. I'm mostly looking for something fairly old, pre-1990, though I was a Jalabert fan and know he wore than number in the 2000 and 2002 Tours, so that would be cool too.

Much appreciated to all.

 

[SirLes]

Stephen roache in the 87 tour wore 51 I think

 

[SirLes]

Oops, may have been Pedro Delgado instead!

Have a look at this for some people to look out for.

http://live.orange.com/en/tour-de-france-granier-nibali-schleck/

 

[RedheadDane]

Forgive me for being dumb, but I've kinda forgotten the significance of 51...

Also; Thor was wearing 51 two years ago!

 

[Fearless Greg Lemond]

Number is on the frame.

 

[Le breton]

Curious if anyone can point me to a photo of a pro rider, from almost any year, wearing #51. I'm mostly looking for something fairly old, pre-1990, though I was a Jalabert fan and know he wore than number in the 2000 and 2002 Tours, so that would be cool too.

Much appreciated to all.

I don't know when the quote below was written, anyway, it will allow you to narrow down your google image search

The dossard (shirt number) #51 is considered lucky by some superstitious cyclists because the Tour de France has been won four times by cyclist with this number: Eddy Merckx (1969), Luis Ocana (1973), Bernard Thevenet (1975) and Bernard Hinault (1978)

merckx
http://gerrypatt.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/merckx_1969.jpg

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Love the photo of Eddy. Looking more for the number pinned on the rider's jersey, even if you can't see his face, than on the bike.

Of course Le Tour isn't the only race where riders wear numbers. Just about any pro from any older era in #51 would be cool to me.

Love this one of Hinault, jersey or not. Sometimes forget what a badass he was.

 

[Microchip]

Most of the pics are taken from the front. There must be some taken from the rear though.

Re-sized this shot. Original link:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7lgl7FIf71qz6gzbo1_1280.jpg

 

[Microchip]

Will this work?

 

[Microchip]

Perhaps photos of an individual time trials would have something.

 

[Microchip]

Thor Hushovd (as Gingerviking said above).