What's the coolest or most inspiring race photo you've ever seen?
06-26-07, 02:02 PM
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What's the coolest or most inspiring race photo you've ever seen?
There are a bunch but right now, this one (stage 10 of the Giro) is my favorite. Whenever I need extra motivation and I'm tired on the bike, I think of Andy there and it just motivates me. He literally left EVERYTHING on the bike that day.
06-26-07, 02:06 PM
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George Hincapie in the 2002 Paris-Roubaix.
Looks like me riding to work on a wet January morning.
Looks like me riding to work on a wet January morning.
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this is very recent, and maybe not the 'most' inspiring 'ever' but i like it... oh, and anything from pez
06-26-07, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by cedricbosch
Who's that?
06-26-07, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by donrhummy
Saul Raisin, rising from the ashes! He crashed and got brain damage that required surgery to remove part of his brain! He had to relearn how to walk, talk, etc and the doc's thought he'd never be normal again but now he's actually racing! VERY inspiring.
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Originally Posted by cedricbosch
Wow thats crazy! But what's that hump on his back?
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Originally Posted by donrhummy
There are a bunch but right now, this one (stage 10 of the Giro) is my favorite. Whenever I need extra motivation and I'm tired on the bike, I think of Andy there and it just motivates me. He literally left EVERYTHING on the bike that day.
06-26-07, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by CaptainKurt99
radio?
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I was gonna guess Camelbak (yes, that's the right spelling for the brand name), since I know a few people have used them for TT's. Everyone else's description seems to work better, though 
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ryans favorite photo:
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um, I'm trying to remember what somebody told me about Saul regarding the hump. He talked to him at the Raisin Hell ride here in Ga. I think it's something like rather than the sternum or wherever the ribcage connects caving inwards like normal, it actually expands outward giving him a much larger lung capacity...I want to say 8+ liters was the figure.
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Originally Posted by branman1986
um, I'm trying to remember what somebody told me about Saul regarding the hump. He talked to him at the Raisin Hell ride here in Ga. I think it's something like rather than the sternum or wherever the ribcage connects caving inwards like normal, it actually expands outward giving him a much larger lung capacity...I want to say 8+ liters was the figure.
Saul grew up with a debilitating spinal disease, a form of Kyphosis, that left him with his trademark spinal curvature. "I used to be embarrassed by it, Dude. Now I'm proud. It's the reason my heart and lungs grew so big."
this is from https://www.velocitynation.com/articl...ID=1285&CID=58
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Originally Posted by Ryanf
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"Unless he was racing there was no way he could match my speed."
"Unless he was racing there was no way he could match my speed."
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Originally Posted by DrPete
You've got to be kidding me. There are about a zillion things more inspirational in cycling than a pic of me in a freakin' cat 4 race. I'm a 30-year-old bike weenie with a full-time career who keeps showing up week after week and getting spanked for some unknown reason. I guess it's because in some strange way I love it. But still, hardly an inspiration.
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Originally Posted by botto
WTF? Has Patentcad hacked DrPete's account?
Now I'm scared.
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06-26-07, 03:45 PM
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My favorite is the 1989 picture of Kiritchenko at the World Championships where he snapped his handlebars in half. Anyone have a large photo of that for my desktop background?
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^^ Good call.
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Originally Posted by Yoshi
Congenital defect - he has a curved spine.
Like Tony Rominger.