I just love the overall aesthetic of 90's Tour de France. The Clothes the spectators and cyclists wear, the colors, the style of the TV-Broadcasting EVERYTHING. A view to summers I've never experienced.
To be able to finally see these legendary events in video of such high quality is a privilege and pleasure indeed. Making these historic races available is a service to cycling fans everywhere, and a tribute to the great riders of the past.
There was a guy called chickasmith who uploaded hundreds of Individual states of past tour the france. But iTV or someone had him axed. The Tour de france should put these up themselves, there clearly is demand. But as we all know cycling is the worst when it comes to Promotion of the sport.
The notorious PDM team. PDM aka "Pills, Drugs and Medicine", or in Dutch: "Prestaties Door Manipulaties" ("Performances through manipulation"), or in French "Plein de Manipulations de Dopage"🤭
I got my nickname from that tour... I am Dave De Tour. I rode all the stages same day bout an hour or two ahead of the race. The pros had a rabbit... They caught me a few times a few km from the Stage finishes. We'd laugh at each other & I'd say things like" took you long enough " ha ha Greg Lemond crying at col de la joux plan ? Me too. That will break you i am glad I have that in common w/ Lemond. That & stage to Val Loron were HARD. I was amazed i survived that day, with no clue where i was going, im from California, i rode Tourmalet the Year before & Aubisque my first time there. Also in 92 I couldn't go on beyond St Jean Maureen either. Many unreal memories like playing cards & drinking a beer or 2 w/ Phil Anderson in Gap. Getting to Alpe'dHuez & a Sit down in the back area of finish line w/ Bernard Hinault. Catching Maurizio Fondriest on the finish line at Alpe'dHuez, Getting photos holding his baby daughter the next morning in Bourg de Oisans. Riding up Champs Elysees on final stage about hour before they got there... Got interviewed by Phil Liggett & Paul Sherwin. Meeting them at Tour de California in Modesto 2012 ? Paul remembered me. Getting a Yellow jersey from Miguel. Hanging out w/ him in private after 1992 finish on Champs Elysees. Beautiful Tour. So much more... For Dave de Tour. I feel like the "Rocky Balboa" of bike racing.
The amount EPO used by winner tended to correlate with the enthusiasm of their podium celebrations. The subdued reactions reflected their inner guilt. Exhibit A…Big Mig,always the “humble” farmer on the podium.
LOL! PDM “intravenous injection of liquid food”. I wonder whether Phil rolled his eyes when hearing that? He always comes across as never seeing anything dodgy…
Myself and three friends followed a lot of this tour on our bikes, well at least as long as possible, as we couldn't keep up at times and took a train from Pau across to the Alps. We even go to ride L' Alpe d' Huez the day after the tour did.
@@chocolatetownforever7537 By the time we got to LAdH, I had about 8,000kms of bicycle touring in my legs in about 8 weeks of cycling in the UK and France. so I was pretty fit for someone who was 39 at the time. The gradients on the LAdH are not that steep, there is just a lot of switchbacks which make it look bad. A must visit if you are a true cycling nutter.
The tours from 1991-1995 were some of the least suspenseful as Miguel Indurain dominated them due to his physical superiority over the rest of the field. His cardiac output was 50 litres a minute, his lung capacity almost 8 litres and he had a resting pulse of 28. The tours of that time featured between 150 and 200 km of time trialling which suited Indurain perfectly.
Doped otherwise, even if Miguel was a phenomenal rouleur, Lemond and Bugno would have won. Indurain Is supposed to climb really slow, being that big (but then we saw riis, Armstrong and others...)
It's impressive to see how Miguel Hindurain improved in TT from 1991 to 1992 an years next. In these long TT he gained just few seconds to Bugno e Chiappucci, in 1992 at Lac de Madine TT he won with over 4 minutes of advantage... there' s something to think about. In 1991 TT Miguel was strong, the man to beat but human, in 1992 and next he was unbeatable. In my opinion dope helped him in his improvements.
By 1991 their STI brifters were fully working while Campagnolo's attempt to copy index shifting fell flat with their syncro levers. By 1992 Campy had their Ergopower brifters...the rest is history.
It's marvelous listening Lemond before Val Loruon stage. Delgado and Indurain are tired. Delgado was, no doubt about it. It's going to be more tactical than fisic. Great stage Jaca-Val Louron. There's no posibility to hide in an stage like that. Like recient Tour the France races...........
Epo started maybe even long before 1991. I'm born in 88 and can't speak about because I'm too young and I don't trust Wikipedia, Twitter etc but certain insiders claim Epo was common use around end of 80s beginning 90s
@@scuffediceposeidon9178 It was used as early as 1988 by some Dutch teams. It was only invented in 1987, so it could not have been used before than. In the beginning of the 80's blood doping had become pretty effective. And everybody had taken some amfetamin from time to time since the 1950's.
The tour looked much more anticipated and better atmosphere then nowadays. Not only because of covid. Just in general. I was unfortunately too young to be there.
Big Mig...yes big talent to be sure but also a caught doper...big doper. Tours were tailored to him a bit after that...long times trials n not as many punchy mtn top finishes. Is what it is.
it is sure miguel won that tour in tourmalet due to the misanderstanding between figon, bugno, lemon who left indurain and chiappucci won seconds by seconds on the flat road before the ascension to the tourmalet..it's a shame fignon did not have a good team as indurain to go further
I would get a cardiac attack riding up col de Portet-d'Aspet with that amount of speed like riss and Indurain. I also wondered, how is it possible to be that fit after 15 stages and only 1 day off? Thats physically insane
Yes, actually others grand tour are doing the same too; More Km climbing than time trial. Plus, the distance now is such that 21 years old can not only just survive, but thrive on. Another 22 year won the TdF. Yes, there is something wrong with how grand tours organized their races. Young riders today in this race would abandoned after stage 13 no doubt. The race seems shifts toward speed too much IMO
Was this the year the UCI changed the rule to make time trial bikes have identical sized front and rear wheels, essentially outlawing funny bikes???...I say this because I'm an owner of a Shogun Kaze 600 EX that has a 24" front wheel...
@Gralin James Pritchard he became world champion in 87 same year that he won the tour and the Giro. The than 87 was an Epic battle between Visentini an Roche. 86 Visentini won the tour. Visentini performed just 1 time in the tour in 86 the 11th place behind the winner of the Vuelta (was held in the spring) Alvaro Pino.
You are able to win nothing but you will asses performances of chapions 😂 Indurain is the best rider all times and was never positive tested. I have never seen such a strong rider with absolutly best physical parameters (hart rate, VO2 MAX, power).
@@milanreznicek7335 Of course he was strong, a big champion. Just to reach the start line of a Tour de France one must be immensely talented. But he doped, just like a large portion of the peloton, it doesn't take a rider (or a genius) to see that. Just like the best DS of this era Manolo Saiz never rode professionally but still knew what to do.
This was the year that the EPO kicked in
I just love the overall aesthetic of 90's Tour de France. The Clothes the spectators and cyclists wear, the colors, the style of the TV-Broadcasting EVERYTHING. A view to summers I've never experienced.
But if you think about it, not much has changed in 30 years.
To be able to finally see these legendary events in video of such high quality is a privilege and pleasure indeed. Making these historic races available is a service to cycling fans everywhere, and a tribute to the great riders of the past.
Happy to share these. I am sure that a lot of fans would like to see them as well. Thank you
There was a guy called chickasmith who uploaded hundreds of Individual states of past tour the france. But iTV or someone had him axed.
The Tour de france should put these up themselves, there clearly is demand. But as we all know cycling is the worst when it comes to Promotion of the sport.
Agreed. They may all been doped, but the racing was fantastic. I guess I the first to state that opinion.
18:00 intravenous injection of *liqid food*😂😂😂😂
Well technically, blood is carrying nutrients😅
The notorious PDM team.
PDM aka "Pills, Drugs and Medicine", or in Dutch: "Prestaties Door Manipulaties" ("Performances through manipulation"), or in French "Plein de Manipulations de Dopage"🤭
IV injection of liquid food. That's whats called a euphemism.
Probably a batch of bad blood bags 😬
PDM... one of the most prolific doping teams. LeMond left them in '88 for that reason. Makes you wonder about Breukink, who was so good in 1990.
I got my nickname from that tour...
I am Dave De Tour.
I rode all the stages same day bout an hour or two ahead of the race.
The pros had a rabbit...
They caught me a few times a few km from the Stage finishes. We'd laugh at each other & I'd say things like" took you long enough " ha ha
Greg Lemond crying at col de la joux plan ? Me too. That will break you i am glad I have that in common w/ Lemond. That & stage to Val Loron were HARD. I was amazed i survived that day, with no clue where i was going, im from California, i rode Tourmalet the Year before & Aubisque my first time there.
Also in 92 I couldn't go on beyond St Jean Maureen either. Many unreal memories like playing cards & drinking a beer or 2 w/ Phil Anderson in Gap. Getting to Alpe'dHuez & a Sit down in the back area of finish line w/ Bernard Hinault. Catching Maurizio Fondriest on the finish line at Alpe'dHuez, Getting photos holding his baby daughter the next morning in Bourg de Oisans. Riding up Champs Elysees on final stage about hour before they got there...
Got interviewed by Phil Liggett & Paul Sherwin. Meeting them at Tour de California in Modesto 2012 ?
Paul remembered me.
Getting a Yellow jersey from Miguel.
Hanging out w/ him in private after 1992 finish on Champs Elysees.
Beautiful Tour.
So much more...
For Dave de Tour.
I feel like the "Rocky Balboa" of bike racing.
The turning point year. The old guard versus the new blood (doping) and epo.
So true. This is the year when I started to lose interest. Would be curious if Andy Hampsten was doping during this time.
PDM got the dosing wrong.... or the blood bags were contaminated......
The amount EPO used by winner tended to correlate with the enthusiasm of their podium celebrations.
The subdued reactions reflected their inner guilt. Exhibit A…Big Mig,always the “humble” farmer on the podium.
The beginning of the dark days
LOL! PDM “intravenous injection of liquid food”.
I wonder whether Phil rolled his eyes when hearing that? He always comes across as never seeing anything dodgy…
Considering how far Phil was prepared to defend Lance Armstrong right up to the end, I doubt it.
Myself and three friends followed a lot of this tour on our bikes, well at least as long as possible, as we couldn't keep up at times and took a train from Pau across to the Alps. We even go to ride L' Alpe d' Huez the day after the tour did.
Thats awesome man. You climbed L Alp d' Huez? What is that like? Is it as nasty as it looks?
@@chocolatetownforever7537 By the time we got to LAdH, I had about 8,000kms of bicycle touring in my legs in about 8 weeks of cycling in the UK and France. so I was pretty fit for someone who was 39 at the time. The gradients on the LAdH are not that steep, there is just a lot of switchbacks which make it look bad. A must visit if you are a true cycling nutter.
Absolutely awesome story man, and thank you for it.
The tours from 1991-1995 were some of the least suspenseful as Miguel Indurain dominated them due to his physical superiority over the rest of the field. His cardiac output was 50 litres a minute, his lung capacity almost 8 litres and he had a resting pulse of 28. The tours of that time featured between 150 and 200 km of time trialling which suited Indurain perfectly.
plus he successfully doped...
Doped otherwise, even if Miguel was a phenomenal rouleur, Lemond and Bugno would have won. Indurain Is supposed to climb really slow, being that big (but then we saw riis, Armstrong and others...)
It's impressive to see how Miguel Hindurain improved in TT from 1991 to 1992 an years next.
In these long TT he gained just few seconds to Bugno e Chiappucci, in 1992 at Lac de Madine TT he won with over 4 minutes of advantage... there' s something to think about.
In 1991 TT Miguel was strong, the man to beat but human, in 1992 and next he was unbeatable.
In my opinion dope helped him in his improvements.
Who on earth chose that dreadful, deadly dull, accompanying music?
Strange Tour. Great until Indurain took the jersey, boring thereafter.
And the following 4 years thereafter
That looks dope!
Greg an absolute legend! Thanks for the memories!!!
Brilliant. . .Great Halcyon Days. . Can,t remember Steven Roche being kicked off for being LATE!!
There were early cellphones in 1991 and space shuttles were launched every two months, but Shimano still hadn't figured out STI shifters. Shame!
By 1991 their STI brifters were fully working while Campagnolo's attempt to copy index shifting fell flat with their syncro levers. By 1992 Campy had their Ergopower brifters...the rest is history.
Not true. If you look at some of the bikes from 1990, riders had STI.
Poor Greg, couldn’t compete against EPO.
15 minutes in and there are already mysterious form improvements galore!
It's marvelous listening Lemond before Val Loruon stage. Delgado and Indurain are tired. Delgado was, no doubt about it. It's going to be more tactical than fisic. Great stage Jaca-Val Louron. There's no posibility to hide in an stage like that. Like recient Tour the France races...........
Epo started maybe even long before 1991. I'm born in 88 and can't speak about because I'm too young and I don't trust Wikipedia, Twitter etc but certain insiders claim Epo was common use around end of 80s beginning 90s
@@scuffediceposeidon9178 It was used as early as 1988 by some Dutch teams. It was only invented in 1987, so it could not have been used before than. In the beginning of the 80's blood doping had become pretty effective. And everybody had taken some amfetamin from time to time since the 1950's.
The tour looked much more anticipated and better atmosphere then nowadays. Not only because of covid. Just in general. I was unfortunately too young to be there.
18:13 “Intraveneous injection of liquid”…
great memories of phil andersons stage 10 win awesome stuff and thanks for this
Glad you enjoyed it
Big Mig...yes big talent to be sure but also a caught doper...big doper. Tours were tailored to him a bit after that...long times trials n not as many punchy mtn top finishes. Is what it is.
Thanks for the uploads!
There’s that “class act” Lemond calling Chiappucci cappuccino day after day.
Well... Chiappucci did basically try to beat LeMond while LeMond flatted.
love it!! lemond refuses the podium coca cola.
it is sure miguel won that tour in tourmalet due to the misanderstanding between figon, bugno, lemon who left indurain and chiappucci won seconds by seconds on the flat road before the ascension to the tourmalet..it's a shame fignon did not have a good team as indurain to go further
I think chiappucci could pull a gap over indurain at the end of Val Louron ascent, but chose not to do
Back when 25C (77F) was a standard temperature in July in France and rain might happen… 😪
This is Miguel Indurain. No 1 Que viva España!!
@daAnder71 any proof indurain was on epo? I don't think so.
@@drunkensailor112 no- but if you think he wasn't, have I got a bridge to sell you!
Dopage!
@@wk633 There's some terrific swampland he can also buy............ Actually, he already has.
Que viva Espanan?
Que viva Indurain?
He was using " intravenous injections of liquid food". That cracks me up
🤣🤣🤣
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.
When cycling was cycling
Paul Sherwen :(
1:00:52 L' Alpe D'Huez
Great
This the year that EPO took over....
But Mottet and LeMond still able to finish in top 10. Hampsten too.
Yep, the EPO years were crazy. My personal favorite is watching Riis, “Mr. 60”, in ‘96, flying up Ventoux in the big ring.
@@DHTCF They had not learned how to use it to the maximum...
I would get a cardiac attack riding up col de Portet-d'Aspet with that amount of speed like riss and Indurain. I also wondered, how is it possible to be that fit after 15 stages and only 1 day off? Thats physically insane
@@sandrost4243 Hautacam. It was a 48 specially installed for that shortened stage.
The recent Tour De France is a Tour de Farce no long Time Trials, 500k shorter its simply a columbian climbers tour
Yes, actually others grand tour are doing the same too; More Km climbing than time trial. Plus, the distance now is such that 21 years old can not only just survive, but thrive on. Another 22 year won the TdF. Yes, there is something wrong with how grand tours organized their races. Young riders today in this race would abandoned after stage 13 no doubt. The race seems shifts toward speed too much IMO
Given how boring early nineties TdFs were, I'm quite glad they've cut the time trialling out.
Was this the year the UCI changed the rule to make time trial bikes have identical sized front and rear wheels, essentially outlawing funny bikes???...I say this because I'm an owner of a Shogun Kaze 600 EX that has a 24" front wheel...
Talking of funny bikes I'm glad that saddle at 4:52 never caught on. WTF was that thing?
Phil solo is simply awesome.
Did Roche not win the Giro 2 times
@Gralin James Pritchard he became world champion in 87 same year that he won the tour and the Giro. The than 87 was an Epic battle between Visentini an Roche. 86 Visentini won the tour. Visentini performed just 1 time in the tour in 86 the 11th place behind the winner of the Vuelta (was held in the spring) Alvaro Pino.
I still do. For instance The Giro a week ago
He won 1 Giro.
Good stuff, that music though, so depressing and repetitive.
The first EPO TDF win. Strange script writing for the first TT, as the order of riders is all over the place!
So Indurain was on epo in 1990 as well?
You are able to win nothing but you will asses performances of chapions 😂 Indurain is the best rider all times and was never positive tested. I have never seen such a strong rider with absolutly best physical parameters (hart rate, VO2 MAX, power).
@@milanreznicek7335 Of course he was strong, a big champion. Just to reach the start line of a Tour de France one must be immensely talented. But he doped, just like a large portion of the peloton, it doesn't take a rider (or a genius) to see that. Just like the best DS of this era Manolo Saiz never rode professionally but still knew what to do.
@@EMC2Scotia then why his boss Delgado didn't get the same stuff?
@@kidpagronprimsank05 Of course he would have!
I hate the camera man!! after Miguel Indurain gets yellow Shirt I want to to see more of him.
He was autographing empty EPO syringes after the stage and throwing them out to the crowd from the podium.
My heart hurts.
This was the end of Laurent Fingnon and Greg Lemond.
Perhaps the last two cyclists with panache!