Originally Posted by John Rogers (Post 11742937)

Many years ago, back in the late 1970s and through the 19802 I watched the 3 tours religiously off our 12 foot sat dish usually from the Italian service RAI television. I was really excited when Greg Lemond went to Europe and went onto the big French team with Bernard. In one of the stages of the tour of Italy Bernard Hinault was leading and the Italians did NOT like him of the whole French team at all! This was before barracades on the mountain top stages and the spectators would nearly close the road for a non Italian rider. Soooooo the Renault team director pulled ahead of MR B and opened both front car doors and spectators went FLYING! That happed twice more and finally the spectators were ordered by the police to stay off the pavement and they sort of did. Those races are on some very old VHS tapes and I watched one the other night in the garage/machine shop in my old TV that has a VHS and DVD player built in.
John

Originally Posted by herr_oberst (Post 11745522)

Is Sagan second tier now, or will he have a Cavendish-style renaissance?

Originally Posted by Scott Douglas (Post 11747311)

I feel for Hugo losing a brother to a drunk driver like that. Glad he was able to win today.

For you guys that have raced, how often does a chain break?
I've never heard of that happening in the TDF before.

Originally Posted by Scott Douglas (Post 11747311)

For you guys that have raced, how often does a chain break?

Originally Posted by herr_oberst (Post 11747374)

Not often, a testament to the strength of modern gear.

I've never raced, but I broke the quik-link once on my fast bike. I was stomping on the pedals full gas and was incredibly lucky not to smash my nuts into the top tube or my knee into the bar.