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100th Tour de France

also, love the 'lbedefiantlylovesthetour' tag. props to you, good sir, whoever you are.
 
lbE08 said:
"It never hurts less, you just go faster."
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In 1910 the Tour had a stage that finished on top of the Col du Tourmalet. That stage was a stupid 326 kilometers long and covered 7 mountain peaks. On gravel roads. With single speed bicycles that weighed 40 pounds and flatted regularly. Octave Lapize (who would go on to win that stage, and the Tour overall) famously screamed at the race organizers as he neared the finish line "You are murderers! Yes, murderers". The newspapers loved it, and that particular route is still known as "The Circle of Death".*

Cycling is a sport of attrition. Grand Tour cycling in particular. The winner is the man who can hurt the most without slowing down, plain and simple. It's a sport of gruesome pain, and the insane embracement of it.








*what did the sport do to commemorate his manic meltdown? oh, they put a statue up on the climb of him suffering excruciatingly as a reminder of what a bike race is like.
 
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Back when they were putting ether in their scarves I'm sure it helped quite a bit.
 
DeaconCav06 said:
Back when they were putting ether in their scarves I'm sure it helped quite a bit.
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Lots of cyclists in the late 19th and early 20th century would take small doses of Strychnine to kill the sensation of pain.

They'd also use a nasty combination of nitroglycerin and cocaine as stimulants, which often led to serious hallucinations. One American rider once refused to return to a track event in New York because he was fearing for his life due to the man with knife who was chasing him around the track (drug induced hallucination).
 
Has there ever been a time when cycling was clean? I'm being serious.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
Has there ever been a time when cycling was clean? I'm being serious.
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No. Absolutely not.

Because of the nature of the sport, doping is a core part of it and always has been. Drug use and abuse is part and parcel of cycling, and always has been. It's ingrained into the fabric of the sport from the very beginning, and it's not going to go away anytime soon.
 
hell of a climb today; froome was a beast (after lots of help from a strong sky team).
 
This picture is awesome

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And video!

 
vadimivich said:
In 1910 the Tour had a stage that finished on top of the Col du Tourmalet. That stage was a stupid 326 kilometers long and covered 7 mountain peaks. On gravel roads. With single speed bicycles that weighed 40 pounds and flatted regularly. Octave Lapize (who would go on to win that stage, and the Tour overall) famously screamed at the race organizers as he neared the finish line "You are murderers! Yes, murderers". The newspapers loved it, and that particular route is still known as "The Circle of Death".*

Cycling is a sport of attrition. Grand Tour cycling in particular. The winner is the man who can hurt the most without slowing down, plain and simple. It's a sport of gruesome pain, and the insane embracement of it.








*what did the sport do to commemorate his manic meltdown? oh, they put a statue up on the climb of him suffering excruciatingly as a reminder of what a bike race is like.
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"The First World War ended his cycling career. As a fighter pilot in the French army, Octave Lapize was shot down near Flirey, Meurthe-et-Moselle on 14 July 1917. Severely injured, he died in a hospital in Toul."
 
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