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Your Way Into Cycling
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| Alexander2000 |
Posted on 14-06-2015 14:53
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How and when did you get into cycling?
I got into cycling in 2010 when the tour was held. I remember the fights between Schleck and Contador. I knew nothing about cycling back then.  |
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| Riis123 |
Posted on 14-06-2015 15:04
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Just watching Tour de France as a child every year since my dad watched it. Guess it started around 2003 when CSC began to have GC-threads and I was old enough to understand at least some of what was going on
edit: Uuh yeah, first thing I really remember was Mayos victory on Alpe d Huez 2003. What a great climber he was
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| Strydz |
Posted on 14-06-2015 15:09
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My way into cycling was as simple as I loved riding my bike. as for following pro cycling, that's more difficult but it's pretty much the only sport that I can remember following with any real interest from a very young age. But for me it's more about actually riding my bike than the pro side of the sport.
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 14-06-2015 15:27
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Not any special way that I got into cycling. Just started watching with my dad when I was young.
I still remember some of my first memories: Botcharov and Virenque on Ventoux and Tafi winning de Ronde must be about the first I remember from TV.
Also will never forget getting a bidon from Frigo at the Brabantse pijl. Must have been 15 years ago. Long time 
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 14-06-2015 15:34
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I was flipping through the TV channels in July and was captivated by the 2008 TDF. The rest is history.
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| weirdskyfan64 |
Posted on 14-06-2015 20:52
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Always vaguely aware, but my grandpa, during this stage:https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012...-de-france, forced me to watch the highlights while explaining how everything worked, even going as far as the HTC lead-out train. From then on, I was hooked.
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| fjhoekie |
Posted on 14-06-2015 21:00
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My way is quite unique I guess... Went to the local toy store (yes we still had those back then...) and bought PCM 2007 for like 10€ in January/February 2008 or something and played it a lot at my uncle's place when we were there. My uncle saw I didn't understand anything about the sport and told me what to do, resulting in my first PCM victory (Venokourov, Kazakhstana on Mont Ventoux :lol which was so cool I actually decided to watch the TDF that year, and basically every live race afterwards 
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| Forever the Best |
Posted on 14-06-2015 21:00
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I got into cycling in Luz Ardiden stage in TdF 2011.And Schleck brothers' strange tactic ended up with Frank gaining time.Then Hushovd catching and dropping Roy in stage 13.
Then I also watched stages 16,17,18 and 19 in that TdF.Contador's attacks on stage 16-17 and Andy's 60 km attack on Galibier then the next day Contador attacking from 90 km out and Schleck following him.Yeah TdF 2011 made me love cycling
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| deek12345 |
Posted on 14-06-2015 21:08
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my brother was a big fan of cycling in the 1980s,every year he would watch the TDF highlights on channel4 there was no live cycling or anything on tv just the 1hr of highlights every night .so i would watch it with him and ever since ive been hooked.
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| TheManxMissile |
Posted on 14-06-2015 21:22
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I saw some of the final TT in '06 but didn't really know what it was. Watched for like half an hour in confusion but interest. Watched Contador vs Rasmussen in '07 in the mountains and it got me really interested. From there i read Armstrongs auto-biographies and a couple of other books about Lance. He got me really interested so in '08 i really watched the race as Cav's took 4 wins and the GC battle was cool with Sastre. Then with the Olympics my interested soared again.
2009 was the first year i followed anything else which ofcourse was good as Cav's had an incredible opening to the year through San Remo. Tracking Wiggins and the other track stars on the road. Then the Tour with 6 wins for Cav's and 4th place for Brad. I was hooked completely for a lifetime at that point.
I'll always attribute my interest to Lance. The early races i watched were interesting but just in passing whereas it was his story and his exploits on the bike that built that genuine interest that grew as the GB riders started invading hard. And now i'm in forever!
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| Omloop |
Posted on 14-06-2015 21:28
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Got my first proper bike in 2008(Mountain bike). Didn't ride it much at home ,but in the holidays, when the i was at the family cabin i rode this beautiful route everyday, often multiple times. In 2011 I decided to quit football( worst decision of my life) and decided to buy a mountain bike. Rode it a lot, especially to this old fortress. A couple of months later my grandad bought me Bianchi bike on sale from a buddie(Bianchi Coast to Coast 525), which i still ride today. The idea was to start racing, but I haven't started yet.... When it comes to following the sport I remember old glimses from stages in the Tour, especially Champs Elysees in 2006 and Augustyns crash. Watched most of the Tour in 2009 and 2010 and in 2011 i watched most of the major races. Since 2012 I've followed more or less everything.
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 14-06-2015 21:29
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contador vs. schleck was it
got really interested after that flecha/hoogerland crash at le tour
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| nils erik |
Posted on 14-06-2015 21:38
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I started by watching the Tour 2005 at our beachhouse, and even if it is long ago it is definitely the tour i remember the best. Zabriskie-hyper prologue, Zabriskie crashing in the ttt, McEwen/O'Grady/Hushovd, the best gt stage ever with Weening and Kloden, the ultimate stage finish with Bernucci, Totschnig win, Savoldelli beating Arvesen on the line, Popovych in the break, Armstrong crushing everyone, but without a stage win until the last tt, and Vino beating Vande Velde on Champs, taking oversll 5th from Leipheimer. I do not really understand how I remember so much from that tour, but I guess everyone has their weird childhood mfmories which does not seem to fade... |
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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 14-06-2015 21:42
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Watched Schleck vs Contador at 2010 Tour but wasn't really that knowledgeable and into it. Really got into the 2011 Tour though, especially with Cav's 5 wins and Schleck's mid-stage stage 18 attack and the battle with Evans, which is why I'm a big fan of Schleck. Then started watching things other than the Tour after the 2012 race where a British winner really got me interested. |
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 14-06-2015 21:58
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Always watched with my Dad, he explained everything, like why Cadel didn't attack, my first memory of it is him telling me that he got in the morning break but Gilbert and Hushovd told him to leave so they didn't get chased back.
My next is the stage that Cadel lost the yellow jersey in 2010, I was really disappointed, and began to support Samuel Sanchez because I liked the orange. Before the 2011 tour I got really excited, I rode my bike every chance I got in June and from then on I loved cycling, actually understanding it and watching it even more until 2014 when I began watching every race possible (also it helped that St Kilda started to lose in 2011/12.
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| Shonak |
Posted on 14-06-2015 22:15
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My dad was an competitive amateur racer, so I followed cycling since I remember. First conscious memory may be MSR 1995.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 14-06-2015 22:27
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I used to watch a Tour de France stage here and there, but only started following cycling regularly from the 2005 Tour.
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| johnnyjur |
Posted on 14-06-2015 22:58
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Remember I watched some cycling in '03 and '04 on norwegian TV. Mainly Tour de France, and I was mostly interested in how Hushovd was doing. Was about 10 years old, and didn't quite understand everything about cycling back then. I always wanted to own a CyM-game, and bought CyM4. Since then I started to understand more about the sport, and got to know more races and riders.
Giro d'Italia in 2005 was the breakthrough for my cycling interest though. The stage to Sestriere was so spectacular, and since then I've followed cycling very, very closely.
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| Dippofix |
Posted on 14-06-2015 23:09
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My dad used to be a big cycling fan, so I remember watching Lance's later TdF wins, which I found very, very boring. My favourite team was Discovery Channel, because that's what I'd have preferred to be watching. I did think the riding side by side and drinking champagne part on the champs stage was kinda cool though. Then he himself kinda stopped following it for a few years, until the 2012 tour, where I watched the stage where someone put something on the road that made Cadel puncture, Voigt was in the breakaway and Dan Martin had REKT everyone with a massive attack early on. I watched that with mild interest, but that was all. At christmas that year, someone got my dad Tyler Hamilton's book, which he recommended to me. Because the book is mainly focused on doping, it only gave glimpses of the races, but what I read there got me very interested. For whatever reason I decided buying PCM 12 would be the best way to get a deeper understanding of the sport and I haven't lookd ed back since.
On a side note, pcm probably isn't the best way to get in to cycling. Cyanide kinda assume you understand the basics at least. That wasn'the case with me - I thought the ai hated me, because they always reeled my breakaway in at the Tour of Qatar, and I thought those weird grey parts on the profiles where bugs, not cobbles.
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| Scatmaster111 |
Posted on 15-06-2015 01:13
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I come from a heavy competitive sports background in swimming, so we used to (and still do to some extent) watch most of the FINA events and the Olympics. The first Summer Olympics I can remember is Beijing in 2008 (I remember watching Torino in 2006). This was the first time I saw cycling as a sport, watching the time trial. It piqued my interest for a little while, but I didn't get much exposure to it afterwards. I live in Jamaica, so at the time the channels on which you'd find cycling (EuroSport, BEIN, etc) weren't provided. In 2012, the first year we had BEIN, I remember taking passing glances at the Giro, but the real hook was the Tour that year. The time trial was always very visually appealing to me, so the fast-paced prologue, and in particular Fabian Cancellara, spiked my interest again. I watched most of the stages, my fondest memory being Froome waiting for Wiggins despite his own ambitions. This was my first understanding that cycling was a team sport.
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I wanted to start riding very badly from that point on, but I lived up in the Stony Hill area at the time, with nowhere suitable to learn. In February of 2014, however, my family moved into Kingston in a gated community. I learned how to ride my no-suspension mountain bike (all I had) and by April that year (thanks to the help of the Jamaica Triathlon Association) competed in the Jake's Offroad Triathlon. Since then, I won the Junior National Triathlon Championships in December 2014, and have been looked at to compete in the Chicago WTS Grand Final this September.
But I didn't really want to focus on triathlon. I wanted to leave (or at least shift focus away from) swimming for a long time, and the opportunity presented itself in March this year. With a borrowed road bike (the one I'm still using now) I competed in my first race, the Blissett Memorial Classic in the Junior category. I got dropped but finished 8th of 11, and the experience was a lot of fun. Since then, I competed in the Sligoville Time Trial in April (uphill time trial, 9km, avg 6%, max 32%) and joined the Blissett Cycling Club. Now I'm preparing to compete in the Jamaican Junior Road Nationals next weekend and hopefully pull off a good result . |
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