What I like about this era of cycling is that the athletes actually had to judge their exertion level themselves, without having an onboard computer readout of wattage and heart rate to follow a plan pre-optimized by sport scientists. For this reason it seems more real, with more reliance on the individual cyclists' ability and judgement, rather than the cyclist being only one part of a very large team of specialists like we have today.
@@kevinbuja8105 So true. I sincerely doubt any of the small climbers of today could even finish one mountain stage with a 42-23 drivetrain on a 20 pound steel bike.
The 1969 Tour de France was 600km longer overall than the 2019 tour ........so yes cyclists today are getting wrapped in cotton wool. As the decades have passed the Grand Tours have got shorter and shorter. The speed has gone up but that is not because todays riders are better , it's because they are riding shorter stages and a shorter race.
So speak the non-racers. The difficulty is not in the distance, the gradient or the gears; it's in the competition. When I meet someone who, for the first time, finds out that I race on bikes, their first question is inevitably, "what's the longest ride you've ever done?" Even after I've pointed out that my principal involvement is short(ish) road time trials they still don't ask, "what's your fastest average speed for a '10'?" or "what's your fastest time?". It is neither wise nor fair to try to compare the 'best' in one generation against the 'best' of a different generation. Let's just celebrate the endeavours of every rider, of every generation, who pushed back the boundaries of his/her own perceived limits, and achieved more than they had ever believed possible when they set out, whether that was higher, faster or further.
Love this type of cycling/racing, no fancy gear or technics like today. Merckx is amazing. Not sure about the fans, think theyve been doping!! Thanks for putting this video up.
What a display of grit and determination The gear ratios prevented spinning. Hence the shoulder rock. Before acknowledging todays bikies as wonderful, just check out that Chris Boardman got ten metres further than Eddy on an indoor track close to home with a new style helmet and clip in pedals. How many of your favourites rode all disciplines all year long. Spring Classics to Six Days. You are dreaming. Eddy was a total Beast.
To be fair Eddy wrecked is run by going for another record at the same time. I can't remember the distance of the record though. This made him go to hard at the start.
Auténticamente épico lo que hacían estos ciclistas de leyenda , con los desarrollos de aquella época, 42 x 21 y si tenían suerte un 42x23. Estos si eran auténticos atletas. Eran otros tiempos. Saludos desde Tegucigalpa Honduras.
Ohhhh, the GRINDING!! Today, commentators will say, "You can tell he's struggling on this climb by the way his shoulders are rocking." Back then, EVERYBODY'S shoulders were rocking. The whole climb!
The commentator should say "what a bloody waste of energy tossing about parts that don't make the pedals move". Nobody watch this and replicate it on a ride. Eddy or not, it is inefficient.
Most racing bikes came with a 42 front ring until the late 90's, although on lower end road bikes the cassette had a 30 rear sprocket. I rode l'etape in 99 with a 42x30 although the bike itself had a steel frame and weighed around 26 pounds. Still i managed an average of 15mph on the stage over 140 miles.
I rode l'etape in '99 as well, on a 40lb Schwin kiddies tricycle with one wheel missing and a broken leg.....still managed 42mph over the whole stage!!! SMH
I started racing in Calif in 1971. ten speed bikes were real I thought 12 speed was a real gift. Seems no one had low gears. Climbed a lot of steep hills on as I remember 42-18 Finely got a 21 on the back. Now I like a broad spread 53-11 and 34- 30 or even 32 on the back. You can get derailleurs made for a triple to work on a double system.
get on top of the gear in an intense cadence you can hold hold it as long as you can, learn a new plateau of pain turn the pain into a new intensity of desire to go faster repeat after recovery, however long that takes
Names I was very familiar with. Had a Gios frame I built up. When Campy ruled, added finger tip shifters. The days of leather hairnet helmets. Best moment in a race I dropped Greg lemond and a few other top riders on a flat, hot, over 100F, super windy day. Would of won except my retarded team mates did not give me any drinks at last aid station. They all left so to watch end of the race! No speedometers, no power meters, no radios, no heart rate monitors, no aero, no carbon. The end of an era.
Professional bike riders and triathletes are the best athletes in the world, bar none. Climbing up mountains at the pace they do it, is totally insane.
If you were a real man, you used the biggest chainring possible. If one thing Armstrong did correctly was stay aerobic with a high cadence....and lots of doping, of course.
Not much crowd control back then, the fans were alot more rabid. Seems like it would be so hard to concentrate and you would worry that you might be knocked off your bike.
-2 degrees centigrade........these days they would shorten the stage because it was too cold. No race radios here to spoil the tactics , the riders had to judge the race for themselves by knowing their rivals strengths and weaknesses.
Not necessarily, I saw a stage in the Tour of Colorado that was not shortened due to cold. They had the highest point on any tour race that year Just we never got to see the peak due to the high winds keeping most off the course and forcing the retirement of some of the lesser cyclist and teams.
The only thing that sucks about these old clips are the comments. Why do CZcams people always see vintage stuff as a que to complain about it's modern equivalent? Cycling back then was cool and cycling today is still cool. To hell with the singular nostalgics. People's minds on here are just too narrow. Eddie Merckx himself enjoys watching modern cycling for Frick's sake.
Yeah and it took until 2010's to get barricades out for the slower mountain stages in tours so that we did not have a racer having to literally run a borrowed tour bike up the hill because the size of bike was not what he needed after his crash with a fan in which a known user of performance enhancing drugs Alberto Contador in his last year left his teammate out to dry and Alberto (also in wreak but bike was not damaged bad just fell slower then teammate) was not even in the top 10 at that point in the race and was not even in the top 10 in the stage. That was the tour De France
Indeed. No beyond pathetic gay spinning. No lifeless plastic bikes and plastic equipment. Real bikes, real riders. And here's the disturbing part........... They were faster. Hello!
@@death2pc Really? I highly doubt that. I wasn't able to find any statistics for the "Giro d'Italia", but here's some for the Tour de France: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_France_records_and_statistics#/media/File:Overall_Speed_Tour_de_France.gif
These guys back them were really"Gnarly"and the fans seemed even crazier then today even! Notice how the riders didn't have sufficient gearing to reach these summits in any kind of sitting position; the cadence was so slow compared to how it's done today.
42x52x 13-25 or 26 was the norm for gearing back then , Campagnolo wouldn't make a chainset with a smaller inner chainring ( even though Merckx asked them ) Campag was just about on every bike in those days. Stronglight was the French manufacturer that made cranks that could fit 36t chainrings on but they were seen as tourists gears.
Ils allaient toussent ce rabillers quand le roi eddy merckx avait envie de gagné et quelques soit la stratégie de la course car eddy avait la rage de vaincre et tout les jours il était la . Eddy roi des rois le plus grand pour l éternité. Ce qui me rend heureu ces que mon idole est toujours en et parmi nous pour voir que sont palmares est inégalé inégalable. Que dieu protège le grand eddy merckx.
Sono italiano ed ero tifoso di Manuel Fuente grandissimo scalatore. Fuente ha sempre staccato Merckx in salita. Anche in Italia abbiamo avuto Pantani grandissimo scalatore staccava tutti in salita anche i più grandi. Chissà chi fra Fuente e Pantani avrebbe vinto in salita, secondo me sarebbero arrivati sempre appaiati al traguardo.
Those were true riders..NO DOPIONG..you can see by the way they move and there bodys reactions..my hot off to those riders..Merckx was an animal..what a rider..after the 80s everything change.,.DOPING STARED
Eddy Merckx was Number One and will stay Number One for ever. Coppi was a very good runner, a campionissimo, but he was Number Two in history, or maybe Three or Four (Binda ? Bartali ? Hinault ?), we can discuss about that. The only completely certain point is this one : Eddy was the greatest. Final point. The one who says something else doesn't know anything about what he says.
Because cycling is the most efficient of all sports, an athlete can give all he has, go beyond his capability, and where runners and boxers would be packing it in, the cyclists are just starting. Where the others end, they begin.
.en aquella época había mucha diferencia entre los desarrollos que movía un profesional y un cicloturista,entre los profesionales,subiendo estaba " mal visto" mover desarrollos muy pequeños.Hoy en día subiendo,mueven los mismos desarrollos un profesional y un cicloturista,solo cambia la cadencia
@pitracon Oh, I know all of that. You would think that even with only a six, in the mountains a 52/42 crank set and a 13, 15, 18, 21, 24, 28 rear cluster would allow more leg speed this. My knees ache just watching. Real cycling? Umm. I would call today's riders more efficient. Softies? I wouldn't call any professional cyclist that. Guys continuing on after atrocious falls and accidents bandaged up like mummies almost. Soft is not term I'd use. Enhanced maybe but not soft.
Primero :El público pensé que era problema de éstos tiempos , imprudentes con el riesgo de hacer caer a los ciclistas. Segundo: La moto hizo caer a un ciclista.Tercero: Veo cómo subían en esa época hasta con riñones, subían más trancados y movían mucho la cabeza, ahora la ayuda de tanto plato como piñón ayuda muchísimo que suban a rotación, con cadencia y CUARTO : mucho público, muchos aficionados porque no hay los mismos habitantes de hace más de cuarenta años y si alguien en español me puede decir a que subida es?
get on top of the gear in an intense cadence you can hold hold it as long as you can, learn a new plateau of pain turn the pain into a new intensity of desire to go faster repeat after recovery, however long that takes the pain turns into intensity as you get stronger than you can imagine with sufficient recovery, however long that takes
Really if you are in top shape it really is not pain at all it is just effort and that has a pleasing side. I loved riding flat out. Just no talent so was not fast enough to win much. Training only takes you so far. Greg Lemond, then Armstrong so obvious case in point near no training and were fantastic on a bike. Years of training and you have top riders. We now have Remco just 19 yr old now to watch. More natural talent than anyone I have seen EVER. With LUCK he should dominate racing for many a year specially after he is a few years older 23 plus. He is as good as the very best second string riders who are 25 or so in age now.
What I like about this era of cycling is that the athletes actually had to judge their exertion level themselves, without having an onboard computer readout of wattage and heart rate to follow a plan pre-optimized by sport scientists. For this reason it seems more real, with more reliance on the individual cyclists' ability and judgement, rather than the cyclist being only one part of a very large team of specialists like we have today.
True!!!!
They still couldn't do it alone
I agree
Not just that, but on a block with only 5 gears on them.
@@kevinbuja8105 So true. I sincerely doubt any of the small climbers of today could even finish one mountain stage with a 42-23 drivetrain on a 20 pound steel bike.
"Hey, let's go watch the bike race!""Sure, great idea, just give me a sec to put on my suit and tie!"
A pink suit at that!
@@rcdogmanduh4440 the leaders Jersey in the giro is pink. Like the yellow Jersey in the tour.
Hey, gotta look good while shouting.
3:43 it's all the exercise he gets once out of the office.
Everyone wore suits in those days.
Watching the scenes of people crowding the climbs, it's good to know that cycling fans have always been assholes, and that it's not a new phenomenon.
3:24 lol
They look worse. Fist fights ad pushing
No worse than futbol fans, if we're being honest.
@@michaelstratton5223, I don’t know…yes football fans are unruly and boisterous hooligans, but some cycling fans are just exhibitionist assholes.
My knees ache just watching this!
THIS WAS CYCLING ,MERCKX A LEGEND AND THE BEST OF ALL TIME NO OTHER CYCLIST LIKE HIM 💪💪
Best doper of all time! Merckx the KING
@M I, sadly, doping wasn't new in Merckx's day and it isn't new now--been around forever.
As some commenters have pointed out...The cyclists may have been running clean, but the crowd seems to have been doping heavily. lol
Jason Hart haha now that’s funny 😄
Merckx was positive three times in his career.
Clean? Not by any standard of the concept.
Jason Hart 😉😂😂😂😂
Give this man todays bikes n see how they fly
My God. Those fans were mental.
Watching this makes me realise how easy today's riders got it
Yeah, at some point someone realized you can have more than 23 teeth in the rear
No the race is still really hard, they just have actual gears
0:53
The 1969 Tour de France was 600km longer overall than the 2019 tour ........so yes cyclists today are getting wrapped in cotton wool. As the decades have passed the Grand Tours have got shorter and shorter. The speed has gone up but that is not because todays riders are better , it's because they are riding shorter stages and a shorter race.
So speak the non-racers.
The difficulty is not in the distance, the gradient or the gears; it's in the competition.
When I meet someone who, for the first time, finds out that I race on bikes, their first question is inevitably, "what's the longest ride you've ever done?"
Even after I've pointed out that my principal involvement is short(ish) road time trials they still don't ask, "what's your fastest average speed for a '10'?" or "what's your fastest time?".
It is neither wise nor fair to try to compare the 'best' in one generation against the 'best' of a different generation. Let's just celebrate the endeavours of every rider, of every generation, who pushed back the boundaries of his/her own perceived limits, and achieved more than they had ever believed possible when they set out, whether that was higher, faster or further.
Love this type of cycling/racing, no fancy gear or technics like today. Merckx is amazing. Not sure about the fans, think theyve been doping!! Thanks for putting this video up.
I’m not sure why but this footage makes me think of 1980’s group b rally racing.
Yes same
It's amazing what a simple drum track can do for a video. Cool upload.
...so it became a 10min long middle section of Whole Lotta Love.
This clip needs the beats from Dirty Harry
I thought the fans were out of control today? Freaking lunatics!..Oh, and lets climb The Giro in 42x25, Insane!
Same thing I was thinking. Today with super light machines, and that gears and it's still so hard. And the people! Chaos!
Tony G, 39x26 was a godsend.
A Good show of Italian testosterone in this vid, eh?
Men had naturally much higher testosterone levels back in those days.
Floyd Landis didn’t...
When a bike was a work of art. Campy ruled.....
Don Novicki you can say that again!!!!
@@BuffaloBuffalo-uc6zp I'll say it once more!
Buffalo 66 Buffalo 6
Don Novicki, Masi Gran Criterium in 1971 cost me $275, Campy brakes $25
@@clu4u Don't forget if you didn't like the length of the stem you bought another bike so you could change it.
Fuente the classic lightweight mountain climber, Merckx 6ft1in of all round ability and power. The greatest bike rider of all time..
What a display of grit and determination
The gear ratios prevented spinning.
Hence the shoulder rock.
Before acknowledging todays bikies as wonderful, just check out that Chris Boardman got ten metres further than Eddy on an indoor track close to home with a new style helmet and clip in pedals.
How many of your favourites rode all disciplines all year long. Spring Classics to Six Days.
You are dreaming.
Eddy was a total Beast.
To be fair Eddy wrecked is run by going for another record at the same time. I can't remember the distance of the record though. This made him go to hard at the start.
What a great clip. How things have changed and become so sanitised.
To the detriment of the race, I think.
Fuente was fantastic. Such a shame his career was cut short
If the climb didn't kill the rider the crowd sure as hell had a good crack at it.
Chaotic, passionate and beautiful.....
Fuente...Fuente...Fuente...grandissimo, ha sempre staccato Merckx in salita.
Non sempre
Everybody had to grind back then, seems there was no spinning with the gears in those days.
Brutal.
I feel like the crowd should have a difficulty rating in addition to the climbs
Auténticamente épico lo que hacían estos ciclistas de leyenda , con los desarrollos de aquella época, 42 x 21 y si tenían suerte un 42x23.
Estos si eran auténticos atletas.
Eran otros tiempos.
Saludos desde Tegucigalpa Honduras.
39X23
Ohhhh, the GRINDING!! Today, commentators will say, "You can tell he's struggling on this climb by the way his shoulders are rocking." Back then, EVERYBODY'S shoulders were rocking. The whole climb!
The commentator should say "what a bloody waste of energy tossing about parts that don't make the pedals move".
Nobody watch this and replicate it on a ride. Eddy or not, it is inefficient.
It can’t be helped. They didn’t have modern gear ratios, thus the rocking of exertion not inefficiency.
I was only 10 at that time, kinda nice to see the people so excited,
In the days when a 42t inner chainring was the smallest Campagnolo made. 52x42 and 13x25 or 26 was the norm.
Cycling still the same ,,,,,technology has advance but the cheering still the same ,,, love it ,,,,,,,,love it
Le rythme a changé...
Les spectateurs et les motos désordonnés ...quelle époque, la meilleure...
Stunning.
Crazy gearing on the old road bikes
Wow the fans are no joke.
Most racing bikes came with a 42 front ring until the late 90's, although on lower end road bikes the cassette had a 30 rear sprocket. I rode l'etape in 99 with a 42x30 although the bike itself had a steel frame and weighed around 26 pounds. Still i managed an average of 15mph on the stage over 140 miles.
I rode l'etape in '99 as well, on a 40lb Schwin kiddies tricycle with one wheel missing and a broken leg.....still managed 42mph over the whole stage!!! SMH
Total chaos.
I started racing in Calif in 1971. ten speed bikes were real I thought 12 speed was a real gift. Seems no one had low gears. Climbed a lot of steep hills on as I remember 42-18 Finely got a 21 on the back. Now I like a broad spread 53-11 and 34- 30 or even 32 on the back. You can get derailleurs made for a triple to work on a double system.
get on top of the gear in an intense cadence you can hold
hold it as long as you can, learn a new plateau of pain
turn the pain into a new intensity of desire to go faster
repeat after recovery, however long that takes
Yep, my Rossin proudly had 170 cranks, 42/52 and a 12/21 six speed block.. Regina, if I recall.. Alfredo Binda clips and straps... That was 1975..
Names I was very familiar with. Had a Gios frame I built up. When Campy ruled, added finger tip shifters. The days of leather hairnet helmets. Best moment in a race I dropped Greg lemond and a few other top riders on a flat, hot, over 100F, super windy day. Would of won except my retarded team mates did not give me any drinks at last aid station. They all left so to watch end of the race! No speedometers, no power meters, no radios, no heart rate monitors, no aero, no carbon. The end of an era.
@@speedsac in your dreams you dropped lemond.
@@S2Sturges Hard core! I had a steel Olmo with similar set up!
Never seen all these growing up in the 80/90s.
Professional bike riders and triathletes are the best athletes in the world, bar none. Climbing up mountains at the pace they do it, is totally insane.
@Firsthgyhgyhuy Lastujhujhuj yes they are.
Hi cadence wasn’t the order of the day , was it.
If you were a real man, you used the biggest chainring possible.
If one thing Armstrong did correctly was stay aerobic with a high cadence....and lots of doping, of course.
questa tappa fu memorabile.baronchelli stava per vincere il giro d.italia.grande gibi.grazie Mingyu.
GRANDIOSE, GIGANTESQUE, APOCALYPTIQUE !!!! Des vrais ... SEIGNEURS ! 💪🚴♂️
Not much crowd control back then, the fans were alot more rabid. Seems like it would be so hard to concentrate and you would worry that you might be knocked off your bike.
Total legend 😀
Tremendo el hombre sito ese.
El mejor del mundo
By looking at the crowd it seems the local nut house must have been having a day out !!!
They're just italian
"One Flew Over the Cannibal's Nest"
-2 degrees centigrade........these days they would shorten the stage because it was too cold.
No race radios here to spoil the tactics , the riders had to judge the race for themselves by knowing their rivals strengths and weaknesses.
Not necessarily, I saw a stage in the Tour of Colorado that was not shortened due to cold. They had the highest point on any tour race that year Just we never got to see the peak due to the high winds keeping most off the course and forcing the retirement of some of the lesser cyclist and teams.
And no power meters to spoil it all too.
La belle époque !!!
what a fking brilliant chaos
Que emocionate era el ciclismo en la prehistoria 👍👍👍
Reason #43 I could never be a professional cyclist - I'd smack the hell out of every idiot tifoso who got in my way.
#43 ha ha !!!!!
I presume reason #1 is "I just haven't got the legs for it."
Real cycling!!!
The only thing that sucks about these old clips are the comments. Why do CZcams people always see vintage stuff as a que to complain about it's modern equivalent? Cycling back then was cool and cycling today is still cool. To hell with the singular nostalgics. People's minds on here are just too narrow. Eddie Merckx himself enjoys watching modern cycling for Frick's sake.
i thought crowd today were crazy... i was so wrong.. old school fans are a level of their own
Yeah and it took until 2010's to get barricades out for the slower mountain stages in tours so that we did not have a racer having to literally run a borrowed tour bike up the hill because the size of bike was not what he needed after his crash with a fan in which a known user of performance enhancing drugs Alberto Contador in his last year left his teammate out to dry and Alberto (also in wreak but bike was not damaged bad just fell slower then teammate) was not even in the top 10 at that point in the race and was not even in the top 10 in the stage. That was the tour De France
amen to that
@TheCleghorne I think Lemond said it best - it never gets easier - you just go faster!
The greatest athlete of all time!
This is a pure grinding
Cartilage crushing fun right here
Real men don't have cartilage
what a chaos, those people were insane, even when that guy try to push the cyclist, but nothing has change since then.
Ese publico era re loco
great
Those are proper fans
No spinning granny gears back then
Indeed. No beyond pathetic gay spinning. No lifeless plastic bikes and plastic equipment. Real bikes, real riders. And here's the disturbing part........... They were faster. Hello!
@@death2pc Really? I highly doubt that.
I wasn't able to find any statistics for the "Giro d'Italia", but here's some for the Tour de France: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_France_records_and_statistics#/media/File:Overall_Speed_Tour_de_France.gif
Firsthgyhgyhuy Lastujhujhuj yoga, it’s when you cite the truth. They show their true colors and spleen their loser's hate.
These guys back them were really"Gnarly"and the fans seemed even crazier then today even! Notice how the riders didn't have sufficient gearing to reach these summits in any kind of sitting position; the cadence was so slow compared to how it's done today.
42x52x 13-25 or 26 was the norm for gearing back then , Campagnolo wouldn't make a chainset with a smaller inner chainring ( even though Merckx asked them ) Campag was just about on every bike in those days.
Stronglight was the French manufacturer that made cranks that could fit 36t chainrings on but they were seen as tourists gears.
I love seeing all the cliff side Italians barking at each other , fantastico!
Back when cycling was safer and you didn't need a helmet
Ils allaient toussent ce rabillers quand le roi eddy merckx avait envie de gagné et quelques soit la stratégie de la course car eddy avait la rage de vaincre et tout les jours il était la . Eddy roi des rois le plus grand pour l éternité. Ce qui me rend heureu ces que mon idole est toujours en et parmi nous pour voir que sont palmares est inégalé inégalable. Que dieu protège le grand eddy merckx.
Ha ha. That dude in the blue trackie top pissed a few people off eh.
El ciclismo siempre ha sido popular. Saludos desde C o l o m b i a.
42 x 21!
Today's cyclists consider that a flat terrain gear. Nuff said!
@@death2pc They also have cartilage in their knees lol
It looks like by their slow cadence
@@CulturalCats I still have mine as domany others........... And we still drop you ladies.
I was interested exactly in the crank and cassette numbers. What is the source of this information?
High cadence is like 75 in 42/25..
♥️🏆🎖️👑👏❤️
I didn't know the invention of fences was so recent.🙄
Super 🌺🥀🌹🌼🌷🕊️🚴😉👍
What a times
José Manuel fuente el tarangu, el mejor escalador del mundo
Sono italiano ed ero tifoso di Manuel Fuente grandissimo scalatore. Fuente ha sempre staccato Merckx in salita. Anche in Italia abbiamo avuto Pantani grandissimo scalatore staccava tutti in salita anche i più grandi. Chissà chi fra Fuente e Pantani avrebbe vinto in salita, secondo me sarebbero arrivati sempre appaiati al traguardo.
Hahaha! The chaos!
@TheCleghorne and no helmet?
So much grinding on those 42 x 21 as a junior U13 literally my biggest gear (slight exaggeration)
The pro's used 42x 25 or 26 in those days .
If i was a cyclist, I'd rock the old skool gear that these fellas wore.
I wounld't want to ride in a crowd like that, even if they're on my side. Imagine what Froome would have to put up.
Where is compact when you need it
Those were true riders..NO DOPIONG..you can see by the way they move and there bodys reactions..my hot off to those riders..Merckx was an animal..what a rider..after the 80s everything change.,.DOPING STARED
Lol, they were on (too) high gear in both their bikes and by themselves :)
Groovy
Eddy Merckx was Number One and will stay Number One for ever. Coppi was a very good runner, a campionissimo, but he was Number Two in history, or maybe Three or Four (Binda ? Bartali ? Hinault ?), we can discuss about that. The only completely certain point is this one : Eddy was the greatest. Final point. The one who says something else doesn't know anything about what he says.
#2 Binda, no one close
On the other hand Coppi and Bartali had a world war to sit out...
No radios and Merckx risked losing big at times to have some of his great wins.
greg lemond was the best.
Oh the wonders a compact crank would make.
Because cycling is the most efficient of all sports, an athlete can give all he has, go beyond his capability, and where runners and boxers would be packing it in, the cyclists are just starting. Where the others end, they begin.
épicos 📢📢📢📢🚵🚵🚵🚵
cero cadencia, y un caos! aún así es muy entretenido
.en aquella época había mucha diferencia entre los desarrollos que movía un profesional y un cicloturista,entre los profesionales,subiendo estaba " mal visto" mover desarrollos muy pequeños.Hoy en día subiendo,mueven los mismos desarrollos un profesional y un cicloturista,solo cambia la cadencia
8:09 That looks like a throw blanket from a couch that they grabbed at the last minute.
I would pay good money for one of those jerseys.
Man the destruction they could of done with a compact crank and 32 tooth cog.
@pitracon Oh, I know all of that. You would think that even with only a six, in the mountains a 52/42 crank set and a 13, 15, 18, 21, 24, 28 rear cluster would allow more leg speed this. My knees ache just watching. Real cycling? Umm. I would call today's riders more efficient. Softies? I wouldn't call any professional cyclist that. Guys continuing on after atrocious falls and accidents bandaged up like mummies almost. Soft is not term I'd use. Enhanced maybe but not soft.
Today's pro cyclists are going twice the speed uphill compared to 74 it looks like to me
0:15 un bel bestemmione XD per non parlare del caos...Ci facciamo sempre riconoscere:D
Anyone know what that drum break is?
Блядь, в то время все как то атмосфернее было, чем сейчас
Primero :El público pensé que era problema de éstos tiempos , imprudentes con el riesgo de hacer caer a los ciclistas. Segundo: La moto hizo caer a un ciclista.Tercero: Veo cómo subían en esa época hasta con riñones, subían más trancados y movían mucho la cabeza, ahora la ayuda de tanto plato como piñón ayuda muchísimo que suban a rotación, con cadencia y CUARTO : mucho público, muchos aficionados porque no hay los mismos habitantes de hace más de cuarenta años y si alguien en español me puede decir a que subida es?
Tres cimas de Lavaredo
My god that's a lot of bell bottoms.
Desde entonces ya era imprudente el publico
Ese era el furor de la carrera!!
The bigger the man, the bigger the chain ring and the smaller the cassette.
get on top of the gear in an intense cadence you can hold
hold it as long as you can, learn a new plateau of pain
turn the pain into a new intensity of desire to go faster
repeat after recovery, however long that takes
the pain turns into intensity as you get stronger than you can imagine
with sufficient recovery, however long that takes
Really if you are in top shape it really is not pain at all it is just effort and that has a pleasing side. I loved riding flat out. Just no talent so was not fast enough to win much. Training only takes you so far. Greg Lemond, then Armstrong so obvious case in point near no training and were fantastic on a bike. Years of training and you have top riders. We now have Remco just 19 yr old now to watch. More natural talent than anyone I have seen EVER. With LUCK he should dominate racing for many a year specially after he is a few years older 23 plus. He is as good as the very best second string riders who are 25 or so in age now.