Iconic Bicycling Images: Storage Locker

[Too Tall]

Keep comments to a minimum pls.

Originally Posted by steve garro View Post
As cool as you get, you'll never be "Pit of Death with my Wife & Lion in a Sidecar and I Go For the Pass" Cool……..

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[Auk]

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A few I poached. The stack of rims came from one of the sites that Flux had. Still one of my favs.

[monadnocky]

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[steamer]

[Saab2000]

[happycampyer]

[devlin]

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This for me will be the one I'll remember forever. I'm an aussie but when I came into cycling it was Greg Lemond who was my cycling hero. I love this photo.

[pdmtong]

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Had some fun looking back at this thread. I have met GL twice and the second time this was the photo I asked him to sign.

[mowens]

A boatload of monument winners.
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[johnmdesigner]

Found this in a Paris postcard shop years ago.
I have met both of them but never dared to take the photo out and ask for a signature.
Would have probably ruined a perfect evening and might have resulted in a right cross to the jaw.
Still, I am curious what they might have written...

[echappist]

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Is that Fondriest at Worlds in 1988?

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That, and this one (which speaks to me a bit more, as I'm more of a time trialist). Also, speaks volumes about his talent when he had enough to outkick Sean Kelly

[Sascha Roszak]

Yes 1988 Worlds...87, 88 and 89 were such great years in cycling in my opinion. That's when I first got into cycling as a young teenager and unfortunately through my eyes it's slowly been downhill since but my glasses are rose in colour I guess...

[echappist]

Yes 1988 Worlds...87, 88 and 89 were such great years in cycling in my opinion. That's when I first got into cycling as a young teenager and unfortunately through my eyes it's slowly been downhill since but my glasses are rose in colour I guess...

That 88 Worlds was something. Bauer doing some serious bush league stuff in the finale...

At least Australia became a nation to be reckoned with during that period. I have always been a fan of Evans; tough as nails, almost always outgunned on the climbs (albeit only slightly), but damn he always gave his best, as epitomized by his WC win in 2009 (the front group, lead by Cancellara of all people, gapped him by 5 seconds at the top of the penultimate climb) and his chase of Schleck up the Galibier.

The way he won the 2009 WC also shows why IRL road racing makes for a compelling watch. Unlike Lemond (another fav of mine), up to that point of his career, Evans really hadn't had the palmares for one-day races. Out of the eventual lead group of ~10, Evans was probably among the least likely to win, as the the others in that group included Cancellara, Gilbert, Cunego, Rodriguez, Valverde, and Sanchez. Yet Evans not only closed that gap (while Cancellara was attacking on the downhill) but had enough to instigate a small break of his own. At first, it looked harmless, but Cancellara, having just attacked on both sides of the previous hill and closed the gap, refused to pedal more once the group was stitched back together. So three seconds later, that small break sailed on again, this time for good.

[Artie]

Fausto. Owning it.

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[echelon_john]

Simpson. Ventoux. 2k to go.

[Ignignokt]

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[Ignignokt]

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[steamer]

Who / what got Fignon to smile? RIP Laurent.

[colker]

This is so awesome.

[velomonkey]

2015 worlds 23rd st. final lap, Sagan was 5th wheel back. Greg van Amermaet attacks, Sagan matches and excels. Bassoon Hagen can just watch. This was the moment the train left the station and never came back (I happened to be the photographer and am Ok with the Camera - is this iconic, I dunno, but it sure did capture the moment).

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