Boardman was a total freak, a beast, and a legend. He rode clean in the era of dopers. And he had a medical condition which meant he had very low testosterone. He was eligible for a medical exemption certificate for testosterone which would have boosted his performance, which he refused. We should all be in awe of boardman.
Before this race Leblanc had sniffed at how half the peleton could beat Boardman's hour WR. After Boardman tore him to pieces in this prologue Boardman hit back with "at least we know which half Leblanc is in." Legend!
Hahahaha that's hilarious! I did hear that Leblanc said that, which is one of the reasons I occasionally come back and watch this video - but I never knew about Chris' response. What a legend!
I was there that day. It was really exciting when Chris rolled in to the last 200 meters. We were really excited when Miguel came in pretty close too. Everyone was banging on the barriers.
They're not shit at all. Carbon SLR frames, integral wiring, SRAM Force groupsets, kyserium wheelsets - pretty nice machines & VFM for an amatuer rider
I know it's only a prologue, but i rate this as one of the finest stage wins in modern tour history. It had it all, not to mention a clear case of a clean rider hammering a doped one (LeBlanc). Epic, brilliant.
That Lotus 110 is the most amazing machine I have ever seen. I had the pleasure to ride one and they really are so aerodynamic! Almost 10km/h faster than a normal road bike on the same descent!
@kona6495 you are correct, modern bikes do not make you faster! because after this the fastest ride in Tour history at over 55km/h, in 89 Lemond rode over 54km/h for the 2nd fastest ever in tour history. This proves it wasn"t an 89 bike but the machine called Greg Lemond!
This was an amazing performance by C.B. Unfortunately that 55.1kms average was smashed today the 30.08.2022 in the days Vuelta Espanya 30kms individual TT won by Beligian Remco Evenepoel. An average speed of 55.7kms.
This is now the 2nd fastest TT after Rohan Dennis won the 2015 prologue with an average speed of 55.456 kph. But Boardman's win will always be remembered as the best !
In the 1990's they was only one rider that really did race clean, and that was Graeme Obree. As he didn't have the means. I'm not saying Boardman doped, but to produce astonishing rides in that era you have to question!!
Chris was actually refused a TUE for testosterone, due to his condition, osteopenia. Pre Tour de France days as an amature cyclist, he had a VO2 Max that was compatible to Saïd Aouita. It was VO2 max that was the reason that Lance Armstrongs figures didn't add up. VO2 was a more acurate measure of natural ability. Boardman didn't dope. If had, some one who could produce the wattage that he did for his first hour recored and could have consistantly road and recovered (a lack of testosterone prevented that) would have gone on to challange overall. Boardman did what his body allowed and did it well.
I'd agree. If he was doping he'd have been far more successful, as it was he could do these massive efforts but they would take it out of him and he'd be quiet for the rest of the 3 weeks.
Alan H, I thought I read that Chris Boardman was offered a TUE for his condition when doing his hour record on a conventional bike i.e. as close as possible to Merckx. Did you make a mistake in your comment, did you mean to write that he was actually 'offered' a TUE.
@@ynotnilknarf39 come on, every rider of the time was doping, both track and street cyclists, there is nothing more to say about that. You still need to sacrifice yourself to reach what they all did but in fact, they all doped.
@3HolterBrothers I did hear last year that the 2009 Cervelo bikes were faster than the Lotus bike, but I dont know exactly how true that is. I'd surprised if they weren't after all of the investment over sixteen years.
The tdf saw faster ave speeds in those days than even the Olympics down to more freedom to dope. Induraiin averaged over 50kmph for 60 km with just old school equipment beyond belief what some riders were doing... We now only recently back up to their performances on the climbs the tt will be up there again maybe next year.
Unfortunately I have meet Chris on several occasions and each time he have proved himself to be arrogant and moody. I was only 15 the first time at national track champs when he rode for Kodak and locked up to him. He is a bell end. Graham obree is a true cycling hero.
Matthew Jeffcote --- He always seems like a knob whenever he's on TV. He was eating and speaking during the olympics coverage. Can't stand the guy, would never buy his bikes, total shit.
@@estebankid10 I met Stephen Roche, really great guy! When I met Greg LeMond, I couldn't speak! Honestly, I couldn't say a single word... I just hope that if I ever meet Sean Kelly he's as cool as I think he is!
hmmmm remember Riis riding some really odd looking bike...without any top tube....it looked horrendous.....that Lotus though is a classic esp the track version
@MacTobey that would be something...everyone talks about how big and strong cancellara is...i will give him credit for being more consistant than boardman...but i still want to see him break records...id love to see him break the hour record but the UCI messed all that up with thier bike rules...
Even with the lotus bike in Southern Ontario boardman would of probably crashed with the massive amounts of winds we get here. I still road bike a lot but around here everyone is afraid to ride a bike over 10kg as the strong winds make cycling crappy here. I am mostly on my cheap $250 15kg alloy road bike and that weight takes quite of energy to battle these winds.
Some riders only ever raced totally doped riders, e.g. Boardman, Evans (and many others). These would be TRULY cycling greats in what they would have won if not for the jungle juice their competitors were on.
1:38 That second podium girl was eagerly anticipating for her kiss there Chris, shame you let the lady down, she looks truely disappointed! Not quite the slim man you used to be (although not in bad shape admittedly) but I bet you wouldn't turn her down these days. ;)
She was and i'm sure she still is a stunning lady and perhaps he was overtaken by the occasion and forgot convention but i do remember this stood out to me when I watched it all those years ago
@25jonathan modern bikes really dont make you faster... much. they are all about saving a second or two.. the biggest aerodynamic brake is the rider, which makes up to 90% of the front surface area of a bike and rider travelling in the wind so the maximum a modern bike could save over on of those bikes is far less than 10% plus the lotus was a very aero frame to begin with, a shape like that would surely be banned by the UCI.
bad spokes will set you back since they are traveling up to twice as fast as the rider. I'm looking at you, Xaero wheels. Great for bunny hopping curbs, but not cutting through the wind. they're some expensive training wheels.
Nope. Boardman had a medical condition that lowered his testosterone levels and caused severe osteoporosis, and he could have received a medical exemption to take supplemental testosterone; but he refused.
@phillyvinilli Boy what you smokin? You can't possibly be comparing a track athlete to the one and only spartacus. Boardman couldn't even complete a single tour, he's a "one and done" type of cyclist not a TDF material. Btw fabian is an exceptional climber for his size, he just tends to sacrifice his time for his teammates.
Yeah but he was competing against Athletes who were doping at that time. You could argue his 1996 hour record was suspect in that case as the hour is effectively a long time trial. Ok he was in the form of his life using the Superman position, he beat Rominger's record, who at that time was being coached by EPO kingpin Dr Ferrari. Armstrong didn't win every long TT in his career. Thing is with Boardman he races in precision, he can control short time trials, or 4km pursuits, not long TT's.
Slightly down hill with a tail wind? Not exactly accurate, remember Lemond did his ride at the END of the Tour with huge pressure trying to win the race itself. Still, both rank as 2 of the all time great stage wins in Tour history.
The golden years of Tour time trials, possibly not to be seen again now Cancellara, Wiggins have quit. Indurain would be 10+ mins ahead in todays tour time trials.
@@1000101011 Indurain was one of the biggest dopers, managed to go up the hills like a columbian mountain goat et smashed thw TTs at 80+kg. F.king ridiculous cheat, worse than Armstrong IMHO
Sweet that he caught Luc Leblanc. That was payback for the comments that Leblanc made the year before when Boardman took the hour record. Leblanc stated that half the Tour De France field could beat Boardman’s mark of 52km.......Clearly half the field didn’t include Leblanc the a*sehole!
Let's try this with a 14 kg road bike, 30 km hr head wind, 15 km cross winds for 40 km that is what I rode today in Southern Ontario. 8.6 kg bikes should not be used by any pro cyclists in 2019 that is an embarrassment that they need that much of a light bike to achieve higher speeds. Get on a 14 kg road bike and leave that 8.6 kg stuff for 80 year olds.
@bergslag Boardman did ride the fastest ever prologue, FACT. Lemond would beat anyone, he rode 25km in 1989 @ 54.545 km/h. Boardman was a track cyclist, he had more pure speed than Cancellara. But i"d say Lemond was untouchable over longer distance, his VO2 max was in the 90"s! (very high!)
This is the fastest TT in terms of speed, and LeMond's 1989 ride was almost as fast over 24 km, and Lance Armstrong was just a tad slower than this over a 58 km time trial ... but of all of these, I would say LeMond's is probably the best because both Boardman and Armstrong were riding more advanced bikes than LeMond had in 1989. That Lotus bike is one of the best, and Armstrong has the HED3 and Trek technology on his side. But all three rides are memorable and should be respected.
@phillyvinilli "In 5 years time cancelarra will be forgotten" I beg to differ. IMO cancellara is one of the greatest cyclist of this era if not the best. For me cancellara is the essence of a true cyclist. He has practically made a mockery of the ITT in the past decade, while steering away of any doping suspicions (which both AC and LA can't say) He has also participated and won many one day classics. Just watch TDF stage 3 2007 and 2008 Olympics road race to see what this guy is all about.
Brilliant observation that. Of course we all know how effective drug testing was, particularly in the 1990s when EPO wasn't even detectable and out-of-competition testing was a farce. I'd like to think that Boardman was clean, but passing drug tests doesn't prove anything.
@@treygray2817 Boardman said in an interview that he never doped because he was shit scared that if he did, he would have tested positive and his reputation would have been in pieces. I don't think he ever took EPO. Which means that with a bit of luck, he will live longer than a lot of the other top riders of that generation.
Nope. Boardman had a medical condition that lowered his testosterone levels and caused severe osteoporosis, and he could have received a medical exemption to take supplemental testosterone; but he refused.
Nope. Boardman had a medical condition that lowered his testosterone levels and caused severe osteoporosis, and he could have received a medical exemption to take supplemental testosterone; but he refused.
Ja I enjoyed this guy at his best, I just never understood why he didn't win a longer time trial in the tour and give Indurain a carrot there he had the pedigree for it if you can do the shorter distances of 2minutes or more effort you can do long distance it is a fact.Only sprints use different muscles for 45 seconds or less, he had the lungs to do it potentially.
I'd put boardman above cancellara at their peak, only in the prologue. And only because no one else can focus like boardman. here boardman thrashes riders full to the brim with epo. boardman won clean. QUITE a feat. An amazing athlete, with the best ability ever to focus it all on 5 minutes.
nothing against chris boardman but it was also the shortest ever prologue (i think) i reckon cancellara cud ride that course in less time - and can also be the first person to ride 50k in less than an hour
boardman was a clean rider,rominger was not,and im not 100 per cent sure indurain was clean as well,boardmans power to weight should have made him a tour de france contender but as he was clean he could never recover in long stage races.
he was able to stay with the top riders over a week but then did not recover as well as them.he produced the right amount of power and was the right weight to win a tour de france.this was said by greg lemond,so why didn't chris finish high in a tour de france because he was clean.all the top riders of the time where taking epo,it is well known that from about 1992 onwards epo was being used by some top pros and as years went by most pro riders where force to take it to get work,so yes I believe chris and a few others stayed clean.
Chris was actually refused a TUE for testosterone, due to his condition, osteopenia. Pre Tour de France days as an amature cyclist, he had a VO2 Max that was compatible to Saïd Aouita. It was VO2 max that was the reason that Lance Armstrongs figures didn't add up - and this was Greg LaMonds argument for a long time. VO2 max was a more acurate measure of natural ability. Boardman didn't dope. If had, some one who could produce the wattage that he did for his first hour recored and could have consistantly road and recovered (a lack of testosterone prevented that) would have gone on to challange overall. Boardman did what his body allowed and did it well.
Absolutely. Anyone who remembers him destroying the entire field of doped riders on ascent after ascent whilst looking as fresh as a daisy knows he doped.
Nope. Boardman had a medical condition that lowered his testosterone levels and caused severe osteoporosis, and he could have received a medical exemption to take supplemental testosterone; but he refused.
After your logic every track sprinter ever was ckean because "doping doesn't help on short distances". I think we need to call Justin Gatlin and Ben Johnson that they can stop doping now since it "doesn't help that much on 100m since it is a short distance"
Everyone that plays down Lemond's TT is an absolute wanker. I'd like to see CB do 55kmph after 2000 miles of racing, but the rides are incomparable for this very reason. Yes this is a good TT, but Lemond's was over 3 times longer and almost just as fast. Basically, all this bickering is useless. Boardman was best at short TT in the prologue, Cancellara is modern TT 4 time world champion, and Lemond was able to will himself to victory in '89 TDF with a devastating TT time.
Lemond was a much better all round rider than Chris, who was a TT specialist. He even managed to win 2 TDFs after his brother in law had blasted him with a shotgun in a hunting accident. If Greg hadn't been shot, he might have been able to win 5 consecutive Tours de France ... and without using EPO.
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Boardman was a total freak, a beast, and a legend. He rode clean in the era of dopers. And he had a medical condition which meant he had very low testosterone. He was eligible for a medical exemption certificate for testosterone which would have boosted his performance, which he refused. We should all be in awe of boardman.
Before this race Leblanc had sniffed at how half the peleton could beat Boardman's hour WR. After Boardman tore him to pieces in this prologue Boardman hit back with "at least we know which half Leblanc is in." Legend!
Awesome stuff!
Hahahaha that's hilarious! I did hear that Leblanc said that, which is one of the reasons I occasionally come back and watch this video - but I never knew about Chris' response. What a legend!
+Daz555Daz That's a quality response from Boardman
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Class!!! 👍
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I would watch this over and over !! 🔥pure motivation !!!
I was there that day. It was really exciting when Chris rolled in to the last 200 meters. We were really excited when Miguel came in pretty close too. Everyone was banging on the barriers.
Beast. Im proud to own one of his bikes.
M3nt2 R3pr3z3nt --- You bought one of his bikes? They're utter shit, more fool you.
They're not shit at all. Carbon SLR frames, integral wiring, SRAM Force groupsets, kyserium wheelsets - pretty nice machines & VFM for an amatuer rider
@@Liofa73 they maybe shit, but for the mother of god, boardman sat on them, plus they look fucking aweswome
Wow!
You don't know anything they make some fantastic bikes actually
I know it's only a prologue, but i rate this as one of the finest stage wins in modern tour history. It had it all, not to mention a clear case of a clean rider hammering a doped one (LeBlanc). Epic, brilliant.
That Lotus 110 is the most amazing machine I have ever seen.
I had the pleasure to ride one and they really are so aerodynamic! Almost 10km/h faster than a normal road bike on the same descent!
la "Espada" and the "Old Faithful" were best bikes.
Chris Boardman a True Legend in cycling and went on to produce some Stunning Bikes
That Lotus bike is a work of art!
@kona6495 you are correct, modern bikes do not make you faster! because after this the fastest ride in Tour history at over 55km/h, in 89 Lemond rode over 54km/h for the 2nd fastest ever in tour history. This proves it wasn"t an 89 bike but the machine called Greg Lemond!
Boardman rode 170mm cranks, exclusively. Interesting factoid. He was an anaerobic genius.
Boardman was only 175cm tall or 5'9" and did not have long legs. Very different build from your typical British long and lanky time trial rider.
This was an amazing performance by C.B.
Unfortunately that 55.1kms average was smashed today the 30.08.2022 in the days Vuelta Espanya 30kms individual TT won by Beligian Remco Evenepoel. An average speed of 55.7kms.
25 years after that ive got this 16 spoke mavic cosmic on my front
Legendary wheels
Shows how much aero plays a part in top sustained speed.
do you know the size of chainrings and cassettes in the TT bike?
unbelievable 34 miles an hour average great guy too
'Tour de France Greatest Moments' .. its on youtube
Que bike é essa Lotus! Fabulosa.
what bike is this lotus, fabulous!
Lotus 110 ruclips.net/video/wRQAT8TAFPk/видео.html
This is now the 2nd fastest TT after Rohan Dennis won the 2015 prologue with an average speed of 55.456 kph. But Boardman's win will always be remembered as the best !
as far as distance is concerned
Ken Besford That's wrong
Ken Besford can you provide some proof?
Time trial bikes are a lot different now though. Boardman style bikes were outllawed years ago. They ride on much slower bikes these days
let's see your empirical evidence for that?
why was his nose plugged in the beginning of the video?
@alonsoxabilfc all the speed tells you is the course was fast. flat or slightly downhill with predominately tail winds.
What documentary is this from
wow you didnt know he's a ledge plus he makes great bikes to the boardman bike range rocks
Team car is keeping up in Boardman's slipstream.
In the 1990's they was only one rider that really did race clean, and that was Graeme Obree. As he didn't have the means. I'm not saying Boardman doped, but to produce astonishing rides in that era you have to question!!
Chris was actually refused a TUE for testosterone, due to his condition, osteopenia. Pre Tour de France days as an amature cyclist, he had a VO2 Max that was compatible to Saïd Aouita. It was VO2 max that was the reason that Lance Armstrongs figures didn't add up. VO2 was a more acurate measure of natural ability. Boardman didn't dope. If had, some one who could produce the wattage that he did for his first hour recored and could have consistantly road and recovered (a lack of testosterone prevented that) would have gone on to challange overall. Boardman did what his body allowed and did it well.
I'd agree. If he was doping he'd have been far more successful, as it was he could do these massive efforts but they would take it out of him and he'd be quiet for the rest of the 3 weeks.
Alan H, I thought I read that Chris Boardman was offered a TUE for his condition when doing his hour record on a conventional bike i.e. as close as possible to Merckx. Did you make a mistake in your comment, did you mean to write that he was actually 'offered' a TUE.
Except Marckx was a proven serial doper.
@@ynotnilknarf39 come on, every rider of the time was doping, both track and street cyclists, there is nothing more to say about that. You still need to sacrifice yourself to reach what they all did but in fact, they all doped.
anyone know what helmet he's got on?
British National Hillclimb Champion 1988,1989,1990,1991.
Not too bad for someone who cannot climb :)
Could climb but not as fast as the dopers!
@3HolterBrothers I did hear last year that the 2009 Cervelo bikes were faster than the Lotus bike, but I dont know exactly how true that is. I'd surprised if they weren't after all of the investment over sixteen years.
The tdf saw faster ave speeds in those days than even the Olympics down to more freedom to dope.
Induraiin averaged over 50kmph for 60 km with just old school equipment beyond belief what some riders were doing...
We now only recently back up to their performances on the climbs the tt will be up there again maybe next year.
Damn man. That was Blistering !
Unfortunately I have meet Chris on several occasions and each time he have proved himself to be arrogant and moody. I was only 15 the first time at national track champs when he rode for Kodak and locked up to him. He is a bell end. Graham obree is a true cycling hero.
Matthew Jeffcote --- He always seems like a knob whenever he's on TV. He was eating and speaking during the olympics coverage. Can't stand the guy, would never buy his bikes, total shit.
Never meet your idols
Liofa haha his bikes are shit
@@estebankid10
I met Stephen Roche, really great guy!
When I met Greg LeMond, I couldn't speak! Honestly, I couldn't say a single word...
I just hope that if I ever meet Sean Kelly he's as cool as I think he is!
Boardman is great, really knows his stuff. Those guys who were nice to you were just more fake😂
imagine how fast he would be able to ride with today's bikes!
He wouldn't be much faster. It's mainly marketing hype
What a shame though - imagine what bikes would look like now :)
hmmmm remember Riis riding some really odd looking bike...without any top tube....it looked horrendous.....that Lotus though is a classic esp the track version
Fun how the giro hat is like the new kask bambino...
@MacTobey that would be something...everyone talks about how big and strong cancellara is...i will give him credit for being more consistant than boardman...but i still want to see him break records...id love to see him break the hour record but the UCI messed all that up with thier bike rules...
Esa esa una prologo de un pasillo de distancia,luego en las cronos para hombres ya sabemos que pasaba....
that is the least goofiest tt helmet ive ever seen.
Really ahead of its time
at 1k to go the whole world is all about Chris Boardman.
With the drop bars you mean?
lotus frame only?
whoops, not the bars - it's a TT.
Is it illegal due to the top and down tube being... well together?
i´d love to see a 10 k time trial between boardman and cancellara at their best
Cancellara would just hit the fast forward button on his bars!
2 other powerhouse names get mentioned here, Indurain and Rominger.
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Even with the lotus bike in Southern Ontario boardman would of probably crashed with the massive amounts of winds we get here. I still road bike a lot but around here everyone is afraid to ride a bike over 10kg as the strong winds make cycling crappy here. I am mostly on my cheap $250 15kg alloy road bike and that weight takes quite of energy to battle these winds.
Some riders only ever raced totally doped riders, e.g. Boardman, Evans (and many others). These would be TRULY cycling greats in what they would have won if not for the jungle juice their competitors were on.
The British are good sprinters look at our indoor racers, Chris Hoy, Jason Q.
Where can I buy this bike frame ??
Come on! This is like the best bike fir speed. Oh well you know any that has a frame like that ?thanks by the way
Can't you 3d print it just an idea?
Mista _Wo Do you trust the stiffness of plastic?
Mista _Wo Plastic bike?
Mista _Wo I CAN BUILD ONE FOR YOU .......CUSTOM
1:05 poor guy, only 7km and already got passed by another rider lol
Poor guy - Luc Leblanc - was World Champion the same year - 1994.
1:38 That second podium girl was eagerly anticipating for her kiss there Chris, shame you let the lady down, she looks truely disappointed! Not quite the slim man you used to be (although not in bad shape admittedly) but I bet you wouldn't turn her down these days. ;)
She was and i'm sure she still is a stunning lady and perhaps he was overtaken by the occasion and forgot convention but i do remember this stood out to me when I watched it all those years ago
Ha! Yeah, she was.
BEst TT rider :)
That’s like me on Zwift
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@araregoodguy how about Bradley Wiggins :)
@rbonilla18 When did Boardman test positive for EPO? Any links? I doubt it.
been on the receiving end of a thrashing by chris myself, i'm sure they used to fire him out of a cannon!!!
that lotus bike is fucking beautiful
I think he could have used a deeper front wheel too. It's almost always faster.
And done clean as well.
Blood doping is amazing
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@25jonathan modern bikes really dont make you faster... much.
they are all about saving a second or two.. the biggest aerodynamic brake is the rider, which makes up to 90% of the front surface area of a bike and rider travelling in the wind so the maximum a modern bike could save over on of those bikes is far less than 10% plus the lotus was a very aero frame to begin with, a shape like that would surely be banned by the UCI.
bad spokes will set you back since they are traveling up to twice as fast as the rider.
I'm looking at you, Xaero wheels.
Great for bunny hopping curbs, but not cutting through the wind. they're some expensive training wheels.
Much as though I respect Boardy, I doubt he ever had any intention of finishing a tdf.
Huh? He's ridden a full Tour. 39th place
Utterly clueless!
@@ynotnilknarf39 2 out of 8
DOPED!!💉💉💊💊🧪🧪
Nope. Boardman had a medical condition that lowered his testosterone levels and caused severe osteoporosis, and he could have received a medical exemption to take supplemental testosterone; but he refused.
@phillyvinilli Boy what you smokin? You can't possibly be comparing a track athlete to the one and only spartacus. Boardman couldn't even complete a single tour, he's a "one and done" type of cyclist not a TDF material.
Btw fabian is an exceptional climber for his size, he just tends to sacrifice his time for his teammates.
That was the golden Era of epo!
yep. 1993-1998
Yeah but he was competing against Athletes who were doping at that time. You could argue his 1996 hour record was suspect in that case as the hour is effectively a long time trial. Ok he was in the form of his life using the Superman position, he beat Rominger's record, who at that time was being coached by EPO kingpin Dr Ferrari. Armstrong didn't win every long TT in his career. Thing is with Boardman he races in precision, he can control short time trials, or 4km pursuits, not long TT's.
So, everybody doped but the fastest time trialist Chris Boardman didn't? Seems legit!!!
Johnny hewison --- If he was on LeMond's team, chances are Boardman was doping himself.
@genderpretender 1993 tdf prologue (Puy Du Fou) 6.8km, 1991 tdf prologue (Lyon) 5.4km, 1990 tdf prologue (Futuroscope) 6.0km, 1987 tdf prologue (West Berlin) 6.1km, I could go on...
Slightly down hill with a tail wind? Not exactly accurate, remember Lemond did his ride at the END of the Tour with huge pressure trying to win the race itself. Still, both rank as 2 of the all time great stage wins in Tour history.
Such a shame Chris has now lost this record...
The golden years of Tour time trials, possibly not to be seen again now Cancellara, Wiggins have quit. Indurain would be 10+ mins ahead in todays tour time trials.
Dowsett and Dumoulin are still TT specialists and despite his un-engaging personality, Froome is up there with the best testers.
@@1000101011 Indurain was one of the biggest dopers, managed to go up the hills like a columbian mountain goat et smashed thw TTs at 80+kg. F.king ridiculous cheat, worse than Armstrong IMHO
@@1000101011 With today's technology and training with the aid of EPO, Indurain may well have been this fast.
Sweet that he caught Luc Leblanc. That was payback for the comments that Leblanc made the year before when Boardman took the hour record. Leblanc stated that half the Tour De France field could beat Boardman’s mark of 52km.......Clearly half the field didn’t include Leblanc the a*sehole!
He must be using a 57T or bigger chainring compared to the other cyclist he passed. 1:03
got to give to the english..natural tt riders
THE PROFESSOR
Let's try this with a 14 kg road bike, 30 km hr head wind, 15 km cross winds for 40 km that is what I rode today in Southern Ontario. 8.6 kg bikes should not be used by any pro cyclists in 2019 that is an embarrassment that they need that much of a light bike to achieve higher speeds. Get on a 14 kg road bike and leave that 8.6 kg stuff for 80 year olds.
Juiced
Hush child
HTFU
@bergslag Boardman did ride the fastest ever prologue, FACT. Lemond would beat anyone, he rode 25km in 1989 @ 54.545 km/h. Boardman was a track cyclist, he had more pure speed than Cancellara. But i"d say Lemond was untouchable over longer distance, his VO2 max was in the 90"s! (very high!)
This is the fastest TT in terms of speed, and LeMond's 1989 ride was almost as fast over 24 km, and Lance Armstrong was just a tad slower than this over a 58 km time trial ... but of all of these, I would say LeMond's is probably the best because both Boardman and Armstrong were riding more advanced bikes than LeMond had in 1989. That Lotus bike is one of the best, and Armstrong has the HED3 and Trek technology on his side. But all three rides are memorable and should be respected.
@phillyvinilli "In 5 years time cancelarra will be forgotten" I beg to differ. IMO cancellara is one of the greatest cyclist of this era if not the best. For me cancellara is the essence of a true cyclist. He has practically made a mockery of the ITT in the past decade, while steering away of any doping suspicions (which both AC and LA can't say) He has also participated and won many one day classics. Just watch TDF stage 3 2007 and 2008 Olympics road race to see what this guy is all about.
Brilliant observation that. Of course we all know how effective drug testing was, particularly in the 1990s when EPO wasn't even detectable and out-of-competition testing was a farce. I'd like to think that Boardman was clean, but passing drug tests doesn't prove anything.
He didn't turn up positive for EPO in backdated tests. I was shocked
@@treygray2817 Boardman said in an interview that he never doped because he was shit scared that if he did, he would have tested positive and his reputation would have been in pieces. I don't think he ever took EPO. Which means that with a bit of luck, he will live longer than a lot of the other top riders of that generation.
For sure he was juiced
Nope. Boardman had a medical condition that lowered his testosterone levels and caused severe osteoporosis, and he could have received a medical exemption to take supplemental testosterone; but he refused.
I have dream. After Tour The France will there a Tour The Indonesia it will take 2 months to finish it.
He was so doped1🧪💉💉💊💊
Nope. Boardman had a medical condition that lowered his testosterone levels and caused severe osteoporosis, and he could have received a medical exemption to take supplemental testosterone; but he refused.
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Ja I enjoyed this guy at his best, I just never understood why he didn't win a longer time trial in the tour and give Indurain a carrot there he had the pedigree for it if you can do the shorter distances of 2minutes or more effort you can do long distance it is a fact.Only sprints use different muscles for 45 seconds or less, he had the lungs to do it potentially.
no drugs and he wins a tour de france pro logue. Massively talented. Without drugs who knows how many he would have won.
No más corridas de toros mejor planta un arbol y adopta un perro o un gato de algún refugio todavía estamos a tiempo de salvar el planeta 🌏
Even after all the bullshit cycling went though
people couldn't give less crap about the honest cyclist that's not doping...
humans are sad
nope
Fair enough......but the Lotus bike was banned by the UCI for a reason...
I'd put boardman above cancellara at their peak, only in the prologue. And only because no one else can focus like boardman. here boardman thrashes riders full to the brim with epo. boardman won clean. QUITE a feat. An amazing athlete, with the best ability ever to focus it all on 5 minutes.
nothing against chris boardman
but it was also the shortest ever prologue (i think)
i reckon cancellara cud ride that course in less time - and can also be the first person to ride 50k in less than an hour
boardman was a clean rider,rominger was not,and im not 100 per cent sure indurain was clean as well,boardmans power to weight should have made him a tour de france contender but as he was clean he could never recover in long stage races.
and you know that boardman was clean because...?
he was able to stay with the top riders over a week but then did not recover as well as them.he produced the right amount of power and was the right weight to win a tour de france.this was said by greg lemond,so why didn't chris finish high in a tour de france because he was clean.all the top riders of the time where taking epo,it is well known that from about 1992 onwards epo was being used by some top pros and as years went by most pro riders where force to take it to get work,so yes I believe chris and a few others stayed clean.
Chris was actually refused a TUE for testosterone, due to his condition, osteopenia. Pre Tour de France days as an amature cyclist, he had a VO2 Max that was compatible to Saïd Aouita. It was VO2 max that was the reason that Lance Armstrongs figures didn't add up - and this was Greg LaMonds argument for a long time. VO2 max was a more acurate measure of natural ability. Boardman didn't dope. If had, some one who could produce the wattage that he did for his first hour recored and could have consistantly road and recovered (a lack of testosterone prevented that) would have gone on to challange overall. Boardman did what his body allowed and did it well.
Indurain was a Conconi client. He definitely doped.
Absolutely. Anyone who remembers him destroying the entire field of doped riders on ascent after ascent whilst looking as fresh as a daisy knows he doped.
Fixed gear????
Michael Schumacher was that fast on the bike? Wow.
@genderpretender i don't think cancellara could
best in Doping yes...!! very good!!
Nope. Boardman had a medical condition that lowered his testosterone levels and caused severe osteoporosis, and he could have received a medical exemption to take supplemental testosterone; but he refused.
Boardman only won in very short time trials, where doping wouldn't have helped quite as much
After your logic every track sprinter ever was ckean because "doping doesn't help on short distances". I think we need to call Justin Gatlin and Ben Johnson that they can stop doping now since it "doesn't help that much on 100m since it is a short distance"
Everyone that plays down Lemond's TT is an absolute wanker. I'd like to see CB do 55kmph after 2000 miles of racing, but the rides are incomparable for this very reason. Yes this is a good TT, but Lemond's was over 3 times longer and almost just as fast. Basically, all this bickering is useless. Boardman was best at short TT in the prologue, Cancellara is modern TT 4 time world champion, and Lemond was able to will himself to victory in '89 TDF with a devastating TT time.
Lemond was a much better all round rider than Chris, who was a TT specialist. He even managed to win 2 TDFs after his brother in law had blasted him with a shotgun in a hunting accident. If Greg hadn't been shot, he might have been able to win 5 consecutive Tours de France ... and without using EPO.