Hi guys, I do follow cycling for a year now and I want to know the best cycling mOment ever. And also why it is the best cycling moment. My favourite moment (which I've seen on YouTube) is Vinokourov winning on the Champs Elysees. What is your favourite moment, and why? Share it!
Can't think of anything really obvious off the top of my head. 2010 Giro was pretty entertaining. But when it comes to specific moments... sheesh there have been so many amazing mountain duels, crowning one as the best ever is almost impossible.
My earliest memory is Joseba Beloki crashing and Armstrong going through a field, also the Ulrich and Armstrong battles.
2006 tour, Floyd Landis attack to take yellow, only to lose it to Peiroro after ben caught doping.
2008 tour, Cavendish's win in Figeac, Sastre's attack on Alpe du Huez. Menchov crashing uphill at Prato Nevoso.
2009 Giro, Menchov crashing in a TT.
A few memories that I will never forget, especially Menchov crashing a few metres from the finish in the Giro in Rome and crashing uphill at Prato Nevoso. Funny moments
Ahh, we sure have some young people on this board or people who havent followed the sport for a long time.
The two great are of course Armstrong and Eddie Mercx, their races where extra ordinary and their cycling ability was out of this world.
But the greatest race in the history of the TDF is by far the 1989 race, Lemond/Fignon changing shirts and never being furter apart then seconds, and after the first timetrial never more then under 8sec´s apart.
That race despite me not seeing it live is the greatest moment in cycling.
Other races are Indurain´s, Contador´s win, who can forget Contador, his first win not that particular, but his second in 2010, where he didn´t know about Andy loosing his chain just as he was about to attack and Contador riding away and winning the TdF that day.
I follow cycling since the Tour of 2010. I think I also followed Tour 2009, but I am not sure. The battle between Fignon and LeMond is also really sPecial. The worldchampionships in 1995 were amazing with Olano winning and Indurain being a domestique for him. Keep the moments coming!
Being Irish i developed an interest in cycling in the days of Kelly and Roche and as Roche's 1987 Tour de France victory has already been refered to in this thread here is the same years World Championship finish, quite an exciting finish it is to.
Personally, I have two pretty great moments. The first, of which I was not into cycling at that poor, was one during Armstrongs reign at the Tour. Going down a descent and chasing an escapee, a rider goes down in front of Armstrong, who then precedes to ride off the road on to the grassy field, ride to the other side of the Feild, jumps off his bike, cyclocrosses it access a ditch, and rejoins the main field. I forget which year and stage.
The second was my first real experience with a grand tour. The 2010 Giro, the stage up the Strade Bianchi. With an abundance of rain and mud, Cadel Evans showed that his mountain biking skills do come in handy in some road events.
There's deffinately more, like Garmin's Team Classification win at last years Tour, but these are the most predominant.
