Hinault in his element
Why is it that all the greatest riders look strangely happy when they are suffering the most? Hinault says he still hasn’t regained the feeling in some of his fingers from racing off the front that day in Liege in 1980. He wanted to get someplace warm as quickly as possible, he said. That’s why he went off the front so far from home. Seems to me the 151 riders who climbed in the bus found a more expedient way of doing it.
And I’ll tell you something else: it would have been a crime to cover up those guns. Respect.
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@Ron
The dismounts are MUCH faster now without toe clips. Either you didn't use toe clips or you took your left foot out and rolled the pedal over just before the dismount. It was easier to do a step through dismount back then but there was a higher danger of your foot slipping off while doing it, especially when it was sloppy out. Of course there was little danger of not clipping out your left on a step through and the carnage that follows...
On Hinault smiling: he was just conserving energy. It takes less muscles to smile than to frown.
At least, that's what those inspirational posters would have you believe.
@The Grande Fondue
On Saturday's ride I was working quite hard into a bit of a headwind, in a bit of a zone, mouth open to trying to scoop up more O2 and not really paying too much attention to what was going when I realised my lips were flapping around in the wind. Does that count as a nine-face?
Seems I'm more a graduate of the Whale Shark school of V face pulling rather than the Badger's...
@wiscot
That was the year he really could go faster, too. In his book he talks about how Hinault kept attacking but he wasn't worried because he had an answer for everything Hinault could do.
@Chris
I'd be happier seeing your whale face rather than that bigoted cunts physiognomy .
Read about the rider protest at the Tour of Oman today. Can't say that I blame them. Hinault, Hampsten, et al. had to be some crazy bastards.
@therealpeel
Heat and cold are one thing but a sandstorm is something completely different. Rule #9 doesn't quite cover it. That shit gets in everywhere. Stay inside.
smiling releases dopamine and helps you relax. also they like the suffering, if they didn't, they couldn't force their body to be so damn awesome.