HIGHLIGHTS! Historic '79 Indoor Cycling Classic -- Recipe for Disaster?

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  • @sparx550
    @sparx550 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    That Lemond kid, turned out to be half decent! My cycling God

    • @arthurmchugh5184
      @arthurmchugh5184 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @sparx550 went for a ride in Switzerland when I was there for the world champions with Giɓby Hatton ,Mark whitehead, Greg rode with us ,and the next day he was world champion 🏆

  • @Forested-pz9cp
    @Forested-pz9cp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Great footage ! Love hearing Phil’s voice !

    • @qbert5806
      @qbert5806 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      the amount of bike racing that Phil has seen and commented on is really something to behold

    • @Chiller11
      @Chiller11 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was such a fixture for so many years. Watching Phil and Paul Sherwen do the Tour de France was a July staple when I was a kid in Colorado and later Oregon.

  • @outerbike
    @outerbike 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This is super cool - thanks for sharing!

  • @papasteed
    @papasteed 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great stuff. Fun times, back then and seeing it again today. THANKS! 😊

  • @flyingdutchmanROS
    @flyingdutchmanROS 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So awesome to see these legendary riders on this track that I had the honor and pleasure to ride in the spring of 1980 when it came to the Michigan State University campus (where Roger Young went to school). The Meingast brothers did very well and the Stetina brothers were there also. So awesome to see Greg LeMond taking to the track racing so quickly and easily. Learning to get onto that track was quite terrifying but then was easily the most fun I’ve ever had on a bicycle.

  • @brianbee2869
    @brianbee2869 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I grew up racing on Fred Cappy's 7-11 Velodrome in Colorado Springs. Great to see this.

  • @leoneldelarosaibarria
    @leoneldelarosaibarria 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is phenomenal to watch! Thank you for sharing 😊

  • @starbase606
    @starbase606 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I've ridden that track. It crushes you on every turn. It's much harder than it looks.

  • @benjaminwilson4558
    @benjaminwilson4558 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I must be old?! I remember this ! Cycling in the snow-but inside ! This was the beginning, and all there was !

  • @andyhampsten4252
    @andyhampsten4252 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is great coverage. More event than the 'up close and personal' nonsense of today.

  • @cesarjom
    @cesarjom 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The front wheel lift was quite the cheeky move!

  • @emac626
    @emac626 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Love this, but need to point out one thing - Greg, while amazing, was not the first US World Champion of the modern era. The first WC Champ (of the modern era) was Audrey McElmury, 1969 - Brno in the former Czechoslovakia. She was an fantastic rider and a great person. Also surprised that Liggett didn't mention why the Madison is called the Madison - it was also called "the American Race" because it was first run in, you guessed it, Madison Square Garden (NYC) back in the Ancient Era.

  • @robbchastain3036
    @robbchastain3036 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice to see Greg freely admit that he was initially scared of that track and the racing. No bravado, no boasting, just, yikes, this stuff is scary. No relating to his ascension to the top of the sport, but here,, for sure, I totally relate. I recall lots of times like that with friends on bikes, racing and dueling and daring each other. And it meant a lot to face them and not back down.

  • @rman5815
    @rman5815 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Man those were the days

  • @FreeMTrider
    @FreeMTrider หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Greg LeMond could do just about anything on a bike. I saw him win all three of his Nevada City Classic wins. The Reno Rocket.

  • @teamprobikeparty7770
    @teamprobikeparty7770 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had the privilege of riding with Les a few times a week for years in San Antonio. Great guy.

  • @whatisrealknowtheformula6137
    @whatisrealknowtheformula6137 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If you’ve never ridden a velodrome, it’s amazingly scary. Kids take to it better than adults because they don’t realize what gravity is.

  • @AlexeiPavlov
    @AlexeiPavlov 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Roger Young works at Los Angeles velodrome

  • @vancelray
    @vancelray หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Greg was a beast...

  • @stuartmisfeldt3068
    @stuartmisfeldt3068 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I watched the celestial seasons / red zinger race in San Francisco. Look at his arms and shoulders, Lemond was a stud even at 18!

  • @SM-yh7rs
    @SM-yh7rs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome

  • @WaltJubal
    @WaltJubal 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Don't ever recall seeing a Joel Stetina.... Wayne and Dale, but Joel I don't recall.

    • @G.Gorrell
      @G.Gorrell 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He wasn't dedicated. 🙂

    • @arthurmchugh5184
      @arthurmchugh5184 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He was my roommate in trexlertown and rode Madison with me , good rider 😊😊😊

    • @G.Gorrell
      @G.Gorrell 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@arthurmchugh5184 He was but compared to his two brothers!! Those guys were American Cycling Pioneers!

    • @arthurmchugh5184
      @arthurmchugh5184 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@G.Gorrell maybe , but Joel was a much better cribbage player !!!!!! 😃😃😃😃😃

    • @johncopple6479
      @johncopple6479 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@arthurmchugh5184 And Cribbage is much more important than Cycling.. No ! Really!

  • @EvanPrytherch
    @EvanPrytherch 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dave Chauner with the mic at the beginning of the vid I think.

    • @arthurmchugh5184
      @arthurmchugh5184 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Field Announcer at the Trexlertown velo !!!😊😊😊😊

  • @G.Gorrell
    @G.Gorrell 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I think most of us had no idea this event existed, and Roger Young was just kid then!!
    (edit) Oh yeah and then Carter boycotted the 80' Olympics. Oh yeah, that's why I didn't vote in 1980.

    • @johncopple6479
      @johncopple6479 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was in the military then . Remember that time period very well. It's a good reason not to vote !

    • @johns3106
      @johns3106 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Are you upset only because U.S. athletes didn’t get the chance to go to Moscow and take part in Olympic Games in a country that had been aggressive invaders, or did you find the idea of the boycott to be an impotent reaction to the invasion? I’ve always been curious about people’s reasons for being so outraged over the boycott.

    • @G.Gorrell
      @G.Gorrell 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@johns3106 I thought and still think sports / Olympics should not be politized or a boycott of the Olympics should not have been used protest, because it wasn't fair to the athletes.

    • @whynotride327
      @whynotride327 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Just a question, what did not voting accomplish in your mind?
      I mean a President was still elected, the sun still came up ,and the world still functioned.

  • @swites
    @swites 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man, Roger Young was a beast!!

  • @kanukster
    @kanukster 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lol..." we didn't order the spaghetti"!

  • @kestralrider313
    @kestralrider313 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It will be a long time before America has another cyclist with lemond's talent. I raced track for years and and we used a completely different hand position for the Madison throw, we held partner's hand and threw them forward.

    • @arthurmchugh5184
      @arthurmchugh5184 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Artie Greenburg 😊😊😊😊 RIP PICKLE😢😢😢

  • @johncopple6479
    @johncopple6479 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    And the UCI just out lawed hand pedaling your bicycle with your stomach on the saddle as cheating!!

  • @OM-sb2bd
    @OM-sb2bd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well at least they were wearing tiny balloon helmets in case of fall. 😆

  • @johncopple6479
    @johncopple6479 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who is this ESPN broadcaster?

    • @JamieSmith-fz2mz
      @JamieSmith-fz2mz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dave Chauner and Mike Aisner

    • @robbylong2748
      @robbylong2748 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Chris Berman

    • @johncopple6479
      @johncopple6479 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@robbylong2748 Is it Chris Berman ? A very young Chris Berman? I thought so . Another person commented on David Chauner and Eric Heiden but they were. Introduced a little later in the video. Thanks. I am talking about the guy early in the video with the red blazer . Thx again 👍🚴🏜️
      Mike Aisner !

    • @JamieSmith-fz2mz
      @JamieSmith-fz2mz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@robbylong2748 oh, yeah, that guy. I thought they were talking about the on site guys.

  • @arklat
    @arklat 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If I had known about this, I would have insisted that I be a competitor!
    Bobby Allen should have informed me!

  • @bengtwahlstedt1021
    @bengtwahlstedt1021 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Look at the speed they cycling !!!! Steel frames and forks, Campagnolo and shimano components ! You who think todays carbone shit are faster !? Think again !!!!

  • @csalin7327
    @csalin7327 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lemond was a doper

    • @andyhampsten4252
      @andyhampsten4252 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Whatever you say, Armstrong sock puppet

    • @G.Gorrell
      @G.Gorrell 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What kind?

    • @johncopple6479
      @johncopple6479 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@G.GorrellMajor Pot Head Dude!

    • @G.Gorrell
      @G.Gorrell 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@johncopple6479 So was Eric Heiden I heard!!