How sweet it is...

[dsee8driver]

How sweet it is for the American Armstrong to beat the FRENCH AGAIN in their homeland. They really hate us now!

Great job by Lance!

 

[LearLove]

Lance is a class act. Back in the late 80's/early 90's I raced against him as a junior USCF at the nationals in TX and other big junior events. He had come over from the triathlon geeks and us pure road/track racers poked quite a bit of fun at him. He didn't have much exp. in road racing especially in the world of elbow to elbow tight corrner, sprit filled, Citerium racing but boy could he put the "hammer" down.

I remember this one race in TX,(I think it was a heat race for the road race nationals) it was like 100 degrees out and about half way thru the heat the whole pack was still together, as we crested this small hill I was sitting on Lances wheel near the front of the pack when he decides to have a go at it. Now when you want to break away you usually do it at the bottom of a climb or prior to a narrow cruve but he went before a downhill, not a good place. Anyway instead of swinging out to the side and sprinting ahead he just powered in the saddle away from us. Nobody could catch him, not even the king of the juniors at the time George Hincapie. (a current Lance teamate and someone I spent many races in the northeast bumping elbows with as a junior)

Congrats Lance

And for Hincapie I still have the scars from the 1991 Tour of Somerville.

BTW don't forget the first American to "hammer" the french/europeans at their game - Mr. Greg Lemond
(1989 tour and 8 seconds- need I say more)

 

[Ryan]

I know this is an aviation board but its great to see another cyclist amongst the aviators. I myself had the pleasure in the early 90s of getting smoked by Mr Armstrong in the Bob Cook Mt Evans hill climb in Colorado. At the time not many of us knew who he was or what he would become!

BTW I just got back from a 4 hour ride in lovely eastern virginia. Im only a cat3 but looking for some points to jump up the big boys in cat 2.

Nice job remembering Mr LeMond and his 8 sec win. What a tour that was!

 

[sleepy]

So, what is the top prize for winning the tour de frenchy?

Way to go lance!