Eddy Merckx - Hour Record (1972 Mexico City)
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- Опубликовано: 14 сен 2017
- In 1972, On 25 October, Eddy Merckx set the Hour Record, after a great season: he started the year winning "la primavera", Milan-San Remo, the first classic of the cycling season. He then won Liège-Bastogne-Liège, one of the five "monuments", the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France (both general classification and points classification), and another monument, Giro di Lombardia (currently "Il Lombardia") as well as many other races.
Then he attacked the Hour Record.
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I was there as a 10 year old,,,( just another race) as time when on and grew up I realized the importance of the race. Now 60 I’m still riding and always remembering the day I was bitten by the bicycle bug..long live Eduardo Merckx and Ernesto Colnago…
Only Merckx would be able to to an Hour Record in 7:39
When you look at the ways the made it lighter,Incredible stuff😍
Eddy merckx le plus grand coureur cycliste de tout les temps palmarès inégalé 525 victoires et cette année la recordman de l heure .mon idole ce porte bien homme humble timide le coeur sur la main eddy merckx roi des rois que dieu le protège.
I have waited a long time to watch this!Thanks for posting.👏👏👏
Fantastique ;-)
I cant wait until the movie is released..
I wish they would make a movie on him. To have been able to achieve all he did and still no one today even close to compare with him.
At 0:25 is Ernesto Colnago who grabs his hand to help him stop. Colnago built the bike for him, it weighed simething like 5.5kgs
Sweet fixie bruh
An amazing result, not least that it's an open air velodrome, so the air is not as still, the equipment is 50 years ago as was the training and diet. Just below 50km/h, what would a modern 'Eddy' produce today?
Well, Filippo Ganna is the guy many think has the best shot at breaking the current hour record. And he's nowhere close to the complete cyclist Merckx was. He's a TT specialist. I don't think there is a "modern day Eddy." And don't say Pogacar. Get back to me in a few years on him.
Don't be a nostalgic fool. This era was the wild west in terms of PED use/experimentation. There's no way to know how much of this was Eddy and how much was Eddy's Doctors. A modern Eddy would likely get caught/banned/shamed etc.
@@sps3172 any more of your dumb daydreaming you want to fill us in on ? !
@@robertlund5694 Uh Oh....someone's triggered.
@@Enigma71559 surely a 'TT specialist' is what you need for an hour record??
What mile an hour average did he hold?
His legs had to produce 400 watts for an hour
It was Ole Ritter who "invented" Mexico City as a record track. Also for PR reasons. Ritter's record ride was the day before the opening of the Mexico Olympics. Plenty of journalists from all over the world. I wonder how Ritter and Merckx would have made it on a lowland track similar to the one used by Ferdinand Bracke.
The Frito Bandito!!!
No mention of the steroids he was famous for in the upper echelon's of the cycling community. I was on a steroid for a couple if weeks for a health condition and in bad shape but flew like an eagle up the mountain 8miles.
What record did he beat? On March 5, 1939, Faure rode 50.537 kilometers in one hour, much faster than him, and not in Mexico
Faure pedaled a streamlined Velocar, not a bicycle. Please follow the sport, understand its records, or simply do the required eight seconds of research.
@@taufikabidin412 eureka! you got it! Just like every sport with standards and records.
Because you know more than hour record officials in the 1970s right - What is your problem?
Did they even test for performance enhancing drugs back then?
NO
He was caught several times yet he continues to be celebrated. Doper.
Yes, they did. Anquetil refused a dope test. In '67 I think. And the record was taken away from him.
@@jimbarron8688
Indeed Eddy Merckx was caught doping, yet no results were ever taken away. He’s still heralded as the greatest Cyclist of all time. Amazing how that is.
@@jimbarron8688 Say it to his face, felcher.....................
Anyone who thinks these guys weren't full of painkillers and probably alcohol or some other stimulants... lol
Opinion!
It's common knowledge that all of the pioneers of the tour we France carried red wine laced with opium in their canteens/water bottles.
Merckx rode so fast because they had the Mariachi Band play while he rode and he wanted to get away from the noise.... Moser NEVER beat Merckx in a time trail... but he took the hour record... through blood doping and a stupid bike. No honor.
Stop mariachi hate
@@humildemarcelo Mariachi music matters