Indurain's Lungs
Legend of Garry Nelson
IL is as cool as funk.
In a few years [MENTION=23986]Glanders[/MENTION] will also have some fame, the rate he's going.
I was impressed by his 3.51 hundred the other day - great stuff.
IL is as cool as funk.
In a few years [MENTION=23986]Glanders[/MENTION] will also have some fame, the rate he's going.
He isn't going to tell you himself, as i seem to remember getting IL's palmares out of him was akind to pulling teeth, I will!!That is a wonderful photo! Must be great to have raced at that level and have that connection with what's going on now.
Thanks for the big up Moto, but at the wrong side of 40, I fear that reports of my dual carriageway 'exploits' will forever be restricted to Strava and the Sussex Express! I was seriously chuffed with my 100 the other day and it's got me dreaming of a decent 12hr and 50 to go with it, but it's really just nice to have some decent form after training pretty hard for a while. Goes without saying that it's all at a very different level from what IL was up to in his misspent youth!
at the wrong side of 40,
He isn't going to tell you himself, as i seem to remember getting IL's palmares out of him was akind to pulling teeth, I will!!
Its not just youth cycling, the boy Indurains Lungs has GB representation right through to under 23 level.
But unfortunately for him this was at the very point when our cyclist federation was the jokeist of very bad jokes.
The fact that Brad succeeded at that time is a well documented miracle, unlike all the success since.
This popped up on the geek twitter feed:-Hey, this has probably been discussed tirelessly on this thread, but 750 pages is too much for my poor fuddled brain to search through. Basically I'd like to know if any of you guys would recommend a particular camera, that balances value with battery life, sound quality, and clarity of picture. Is the GoPro camera the go-to model to buy, or does anyone know of another make that offers a reasonable compromise between cost and performance?
Up til now I've used a crappy 20 quid mini DV camera mounted on the handlebars, but as summer is approaching and I have more free time after uni, I'm starting to look more seriously at better options. Budget-wise, I'd rather not fork out more than £80. Amazon is OK for reviews, but there never seems to be much consistency from one review to the next. Thanks one and all.
Is cycling the world's worst spectator sport?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/d...cycling-the-worlds-worst-spectator-sport.html
Thanks for that resume IL - I feel like I'm properly up to speed now! Seems like your only mistake was being born a few years too early? That said, given the farce that pro cycling was descending into at that point, maybe you had a lucky escape? Either way, it sounds like you gave it a really good go and that must be a source of immense satisfaction. NSC geek royalty!
Is cycling the world's worst spectator sport?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/d...cycling-the-worlds-worst-spectator-sport.html
I am currently convincing myself that this Giro and today's stage in particular is amazingly clean.
The yo-yoing on the front with nobody being able to make any attack stick is classic 'normal' racing.
The fact that 2 'typical' Colombians finally pull out the win, underlines that.
Plus the riders who looked dead and buried weren't ridden away from.
Tell me I'm wrong, so my hopes can be dashed before the media storm!!
So assuming things really are as clean as they've ever been, does this mean the gaps are likely to be smaller tomorrow than they usually would on this kind of MTT?