Toe-clips and gears

[cisamcgu]

Who was the last person to win the tour wearing toe-clips, and who was the last with down-tube shifters ? This is not a trick question, I am actually interested to find out

 

[Steve Austin]

If my memory isn't fading i think Lance used a Downtube shifter on the alp duez TT the other year. Does that count?

 

[Steve Austin]

May be Roche for the toe clips? that was 87

 

[Bigtwin]

If my memory isn't fading i think Lance used a Downtube shifter on the alp duez TT the other year. Does that count?

Not just the TT, he used a DTB front shifter for several, if not all, of the mountain stages.

 

[cisamcgu]

If my memory isn't fading i think Lance used a Downtube shifter on the alp duez TT the other year. Does that count?

I was thinking more of continual use throughout the tour.. but thanks

 

[Bigtwin]

STI came in for road bikes in 1990 (Campy Ergo = 1992). So guess that the pros had it a year before perhaps, that would make 1988 the last downtube year?

Just a reasoned SAWG.

 

[gary r]

Sean Kelly was one of the last Pro's in the peloton to still use clips/straps.not sure who the last winner was to use them,Hinault 1985?? I know Hinault & LeMond were on Look pedals in 86.when LeMond won the tour (the battle with Fignon) on a Bottecchia im sure that he used downtube levers

 

[Jonathan M]

Who was the last person to win the tour wearing toe-clips, and who was the last with down-tube shifters ? This is not a trick question, I am actually interested to find out :troll:

Why not try Yenrods suggestion and e-mail this to Eurosport and try and get a plug for the forum at the sametime?

And LA used a downtube front shifter on his mountain stage bike certainly in his last win, and Kelly was renowned for being one of the last men in the pro-peloton to use toe-clips.