Post Video to your favorite TdF moment (1987 - Roche for me)

[Viper]

Post the video, if possible to your favorite Tour Day France moment.

For me, it was 1987, Stephen Roche's Golden Year was cast into the stone of La Plagne, he collapsed and was in need of oxygen. I was 17 years old, riding my Centurion Ironman (magenta and banana yellow btw) and followed the race as best I could as we'd catch glimpses of it on CBS a week afterwards (it always seemed).

Team 7-11, Andy Hampsten and then Delgado, Roche, "This was a move no one expected with sixty miles to go, Roche was either mad, or very confident" said Phil Leggett and up Ventoux, "For Stepehen Roche the cheers of the crowd would echo his response to the mountain and the seven year old he earned the money for his first bicycle by sweeping Dublin's floors. Today he would fire his answers back when the mountain would ask 'How high, how long, how fast?'"

These videos will always remain with me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QO9CfgoZ5c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQojh-wqL04

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw1Eh3BH-To

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBIV2gXV2tM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8woHATqz8E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0uxqvKIXSs

And his ride to Paris,where he should have been served Guinness, his 0.40 victory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFDaw6G4P34



Added bonus, watching him, in Green (a great color for the Irish) as he weeped at the 1987 World Championship:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EsdxAAQ8C0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uCgkpVdt4U

Bonus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Wj6P2hyic

[Fat Robert]

ok viper

you redeemed yourself

level top tubes

deep drop bars

regals and rolls slammed back on the rails

that's how you roll

(glad I put a few hours in on the lobster kickin it like that today)

[Viper]

ok viper

you redeemed yourself

level top tubes

deep drop bars

regals and rolls slammed back on the rails

that's how you roll

(glad I put a few hours in on the lobster kickin it like that today)

And the last TdF winner who used toe clips/leather straps FTW. Could you imagine what Dublin was like that night?

[Fixed]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqqaw9iN0Js
cheers :beer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zzMIp-A8eo

one for the flatlanders imho

[Fat Robert]

mr cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWb4jS4gklg

[paczki]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnRH5Sic_Rk

Involves Roche as well.

[Fat Robert]

ok

so who has the '87 Liege vids?

we gotta get that on YouTube

Argentin punks Roche and Criquileon

[Viper]

Argentin punks Roche and Criquileon

*cough*, uh, humm.

[roman meal]

for the time being, Lemond and Kelly were the ones to watch at the velodrome in 1985.

Don't listen to the John Tesch sythesizer notes...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvAdfqo43s0

[Fat Robert]

*cough*, uh, humm.


Agrentin punked em both

they watched each other for 2k, Argentin catches them in the final kilo, toasts them in the sprint

if you can find somebody who taped the euro feed, its a thing of beauty to watch Moreno bridge then kick it out -- better than Vanderaerden's Roubaix...was '87 the year of the kick butt bridge and drop, or what?

[my2cents]

... when delgado passed us, we started counting. Where's roche? we were about 4 hairpins from the line. he finally came by, down about 2:30 if i remember correctly. we said ... that's it, he just lost the tour - can't make up this deficit on top of the 45 or so seconds he was beyond going into the stage on the final tt. we didn't know that about 20 meters past us, he goes into his big ring and sprints to the finish, making back something like 2 minutes over the last few turns. collapses at the finish, passing out. we didn't learn any of that until we saw the paper the next day!

[Viper]

... when delgado passed us, we started counting. Where's roche? we were about 4 hairpins from the line. he finally came by, down about 2:30 if i remember correctly. we said ... that's it, he just lost the tour - can't make up this deficit on top of the 45 or so seconds he was beyond going into the stage on the final tt. we didn't know that about 20 meters past us, he goes into his big ring and sprints to the finish, making back something like 2 minutes over the last few turns. collapses at the finish, passing out. we didn't learn any of that until we saw the paper the next day!

I just drooled coffee all over my keyboard reading this story.

Edit: Roche was burning some heavy fuel that day, this goes out to him:

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

[LegendRider]

... when delgado passed us, we started counting. Where's roche? we were about 4 hairpins from the line. he finally came by, down about 2:30 if i remember correctly. we said ... that's it, he just lost the tour - can't make up this deficit on top of the 45 or so seconds he was beyond going into the stage on the final tt. we didn't know that about 20 meters past us, he goes into his big ring and sprints to the finish, making back something like 2 minutes over the last few turns. collapses at the finish, passing out. we didn't learn any of that until we saw the paper the next day!

Very, very cool! You witnessed one of the most epic days in Tour history. I went to the 1994 Tour and saw a bunch of juiced Gewiss riders destoy a juiced peloton...

[Fixed]

no helmets =cool pictures
cheers imho

[paczki]

for the time being, Lemond and Kelly were the ones to watch at the velodrome in 1985.

Don't listen to the John Tesch sythesizer notes...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvAdfqo43s0

Thanks. As much as I love the Tour, I love Paris-Roubaix more.

[Fat Robert]

Thanks. As much as I love the Tour, I love Paris-Roubaix more.

dude


check the '87 clip

Eric Vanderaerden before it all went south

watch him chase down then bake the break in the last k

wow

[Kines]

Post the video, if possible to your favorite Tour Day France moment.

For me, it was 1987, Stephen Roche's Golden Year was cast into the stone of La Plagne, he collapsed and was in need of oxygen. I was 17 years old, riding my Centurion Ironman (magenta and banana yellow btw) and followed the race as best I could as we'd catch glimpses of it on CBS a week afterwards (it always seemed).

Team 7-11, Andy Hampsten and then Delgado, Roche, "This was a move no one expected with sixty miles to go, Roche was either mad, or very confident" said Phil Leggett and up Ventoux, "For Stepehen Roche the cheers of the crowd would echo his response to the mountain and the seven year old he earned the money for his first bicycle by sweeping Dublin's floors. Today he would fire his answers back when the mountain would ask 'How high, how long, how fast?'"

These videos will always remain with me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QO9CfgoZ5c



Can't even hear what's going on with all that damn "music"!

KN

[paczki]

dude


check the '87 clip

Eric Vanderaerden before it all went south

watch him chase down then bake the break in the last k

wow

It's awesome, but the cobbles dude... the cobbles. The mud. It's like a bike reenactment of WWI.