Pre-Lance

[wafflycat]

Hoy and the meaning of dedication

True. But not pre-Lance..

 

[Smokin Joe]

Anquetil v Poulidor in '64.

Roche winning in '87.

Merckx decimating the race in '69.

Lemond v Hinault, '86

 

[Dave5N]

Merckx

 

[wafflycat]

Bernard Hinault

TdF 5 times overall winner
Giro d'Italia 3 times overall winner
Vuelta 2 time overall winner

Then there's the rest...

Grand Prix des Nations 5 x winner
Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 3 x winner
Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2 x winner
Giro di Lombardia 2 x winner
La Flèche Wallonne 2 x winner
Ghent-Wevelgem
Amstel Gold Race
Tour de Romandie
Quatre Jours de Dunkerque
World Road Cycling Championship
Paris-Roubaix

Started professional career in 1974 (?) and ended in 1986.. Now that's a palmares.. including winning Tour de France and the Vuelta in the same year

Now tell me, how many times has LA won the Giro or the Vuelta again?

 

[Dave5N]

Christ, not Hinaulat ffs.

Joe, a quiet word mate.

C'mere: The other Avatar was better.

 

[wafflycat]

Merckx

Indeed..
Tour de France 5 x overall wins
Giro d'Italia 5 x overall wins
Vuelta 1 x overall win

Then there's all his classic wins including Milan-San Remo 7 x wins as well as the rest..

 

[Smokin Joe]

everyone is trumped by Big Ted.

5 Tours
5 Giros
1 Vuelta
Everything else that mattered on the road
The hour
17 six days
Numerous cyclo cross events

He won one in every three races he started in, a record no-one else gets near.

 

[Dave5N]

Yeah.

You still need to look at that avatar though.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Yeah.

You still need to look at that avatar though.

It's how I feel, inside

 

[Noodley]

It's how I feel, inside

You feel like someone who needs to show the world they have been eating beetroot?

 

[Chuffy]

You feel like someone who needs to show the world they have been eating beetroot?

Be grateful he's not showing us in other ways.

 

[Dave5N]

You feel like someone who needs to show the world they have been eating beetroot?

You're on form.

 

[Keith Oates]

Merckx has to be the man but I also used to like Pantani and the year he got the double made me very happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kennykool]

Is Pantani the only man that has done the double?

From an earlier post I assume that Eddie Merckx must had done it too?

 

[Keith Oates]

Here is the list according to Google:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Eddy Merckx (1970, 1972, 1974)
Fausto Coppi (1949, 1952)
Bernard Hinault (1982, 1985)
Miguel Indurain (1992, 1993)
Jacques Anquetil (1964)
Stephen Roche (1987)
Marco Pantani (1998)