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Retro cycling heros - who's yours?
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Beryl Burton
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Jan - new talent at a time when I started following Le Tour
Il Pirata - flawed, but when he took off uphill, it was awesome
Reading "Uphill Battle" at the moment - cyclings great climbers. Good stuff
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Anquetil had style.
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Tomac. Palmer. Whitehead.
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Indurain
Started watching the Tour when he was at his peak.
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Merckx
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Jason McRoy
Shaun Palmer
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another vote for Graeme
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Alf Engers, the bad boy of time trialling.
He passed me in my first ever 25 and gave me a big grin and a shout of "come on young un, dig in".
I thought he was cooler than any pop star.
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JMC.
IIRC there was a rather attractive brunette that rode for Specialised in the early nineties. Bumped into her when Jesus Jones were DJing at the Malverns (92?) - she was so pissed she got on her bike and fell straight off the other side...
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John Tomac, used to have a signed MBUK poster of him in my room when I was young.
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These two ladies
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millar, delgado, pantani
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jruk - Elladee Brown. Cutie 2nd from the RHS here.
1990Team-3 by alan cole, on Flickrhttp://www.muddbunnies.com/founding-sisters-of-freeride-part-one-elladee-brown/
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Eddie Fiola
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Sean Kelly for being "Kelly" and I raced against him too.
Sean Yates for taking the Yellow Jersey and doing everything for others and spending one day on his own and gets yellow.
Chris Boardman for taking the track and TT to a new level.
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Joe Murray. Not only a great 'do everything' racer, but he was one of the first guys to take an active role in designing bikes that I remember.
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King Kelly for being frickin nails....
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Tim Gould
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John Tomac and Missy Giove off road or Eddy Mercx on the road.
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My hero was Francesco Moser, Kelly was more of an inspiration. Sadly I missed the Merckx thing as I was a bit too young.
I had a 'real life' hero as well, the man that got me racing, John 'Gino' Goddard.
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Ian Hibell - Into the Remote Places is quite a read.
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As a kid, Andy Ruffell
MTB'ing, Jason McRoy and Tim Gould. I always thought Shaun Palmer was a big headed tw*t
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Rode on atraining camp with Henrik Djernis a few years back, he rode the legs off most of the WCPP riders then.
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Preferred him when he was on Ritchey with the awesome Thomas Frish. Class riders, class bikes
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The lady from the US who completed some crazy endurance race minus her saddle after it broke about 5 miles in. Respect. Wish I could remember her name; anyone help?
Anquetil, Motta, Yates, Kelly, Millar
Peat, Palmer, Tomac
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Tinker Juarez
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The lady from the US who completed some crazy endurance race minus her saddle after it broke about 5 miles in. Respect. Wish I could remember her name; anyone help?
cindy whitehead
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+1 Sean Yates, was local to me as a lad. My Dad explained his role to me as "the one all does all the f**king hard work whilst the others goal hang". Chalked his name on my garage floor as though it was a French B road.
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cav strutt and andy ruffle. eddie merykx dan cowan (not so retro)
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