I have watched this video, the 86 tour videos, the 85 tour video. You name it and I have seen it. They never get old. The glory days of cycling. I miss them so much...
Great stuff here Dude. Love the commercials. Laurent Fignon in the Green Sprinters Jersey ! After the Prolouge. What a Fantastic Tour de France in 1989. RIP Fignon 🇫🇷. Some great footage of Bobke !! Allez !!!
"As quickly as he stumbled the press grumbled ---- about Greg LeMond." LUV it! These races turned me into a cyclist and I had a great result in 1999 on Manayunk Wall. But like most cyclists in the USA .....we lack SUPPORT....especially a Black cyclist like myself...it's not built into our culture. My goal was to ride the tour.
I love this but you suddenly realise how little of the actual racing they cover. Hey I'm not sure, did Delgado miss his start time...? Still great watching, thanks.
Did I miss something? No stage 2? I was there for the prologue and stages 1 & 2. There was really good chance that I would appear in the stage 2 segment. I got in the middle of the road in a short climb up through the town of Vianden. One of my favorite rides was from home in Bitburg to Vianden. I knew the road and staked a claim on a cafe table near the top of the straightest segment on the cobblestone street. One of the moto-camera rigs went right by me, you can see it in my series of shots passing me by. I kinda hoped I might be seen in the footage! Oh well, the search continues.
Sadly, this was when the US coverage really went to shit. Way too much Human Interest(TM) crap, way too little substance. Or, as I remember it from an article in Bicycling: "The Tour de France is not 'Take a Tour of France'. The Tour de France is a *race*."
@@frankducky6130 We will never know for certain….every action every attack every climb would have been different if Delgado would not have been late….to speculate that Lemond was stronger in week 3 is not applicable cuz of the handicap. Too many variables to say it would have been identical if the handicap wasn’t there. It would have been more interesting having three champions on a level playing field .
@@PanchoVillasTortilla You are perhaps forgetting that most of the time Delgado lost was down to him being dropped by his own team in the team time trial. For whatever reason he wasn't prepared at the start of the race, it takes 3 weeks to win the Tour de France, Delgado could only blame his lack of form/lack of mental preparedness at the start of the race for being 10 minutes back after 3 stages.
This was the first Tour I watched from beginning to end. I recorded it on VHS and wore those tapes out
Thanks for refreshing great memories
So did I.
I have watched this video, the 86 tour videos, the 85 tour video. You name it and I have seen it. They never get old. The glory days of cycling. I miss them so much...
Great stuff here Dude. Love the commercials. Laurent Fignon in the Green Sprinters Jersey ! After the Prolouge. What a Fantastic Tour de France in 1989. RIP Fignon 🇫🇷. Some great footage of Bobke !! Allez !!!
Great time capsule you've got here, thanks for posting it.
Thanks for posting this. Brings back lots of memories.
Le plus sympa a gagné et cela fait énormément plaisir!
Merci Greg Lemond pour ton énergie, ton courage, et toutes ces belles émotions!
Excellent that you left the commercials! Time capsule is perfect description. Love it. Thanks
Love the commercials. Watching this on my IBM PS2.
20:57 gotta jump to the trump plaza
3:37:15 "...he hates Toulouse which is a passion he shares with Fignon" WHY? SUCH A NICE TOWN!
Ooh that was cheeky....shame on you.
Thanks for posting this. Brings back fond memories of a great race.😊
Thanks for sharing this video. I had it on VHS, which I recorded it during live coverage on ABC. But they got all screwed up.
Great stuff! thanks for sharing!
"As quickly as he stumbled the press grumbled ---- about Greg LeMond." LUV it! These races turned me into a cyclist and I had a great result in 1999 on Manayunk Wall. But like most cyclists in the USA .....we lack SUPPORT....especially a Black cyclist like myself...it's not built into our culture. My goal was to ride the tour.
Super thanks
Super U
Amazing. Thanks 👍
Man that’s nuts how those guys descended those mountains at those speeds with no helmets! 😳
Love John Corbett in the Compaq computer commercial. I think NORTHERN EXPOSURE debuted in the fall of 1989.
Nice to see some footage of Yates and Andy Pandy.
Diamonds are forever Maggie.
Imagine having the b’lls to make that commercial.
I love this but you suddenly realise how little of the actual racing they cover. Hey I'm not sure, did Delgado miss his start time...? Still great watching, thanks.
He showed up 2:43 late for his Prologue Start. That time would hunt him for the entire race.
Good old days
Andy Hampsten? American cycling's "Weakest link".
think ill have a champagne cookie ...then maybe an erik breukink time trial ...
Did I miss something? No stage 2? I was there for the prologue and stages 1 & 2. There was really good chance that I would appear in the stage 2 segment. I got in the middle of the road in a short climb up through the town of Vianden. One of my favorite rides was from home in Bitburg to Vianden. I knew the road and staked a claim on a cafe table near the top of the straightest segment on the cobblestone street. One of the moto-camera rigs went right by me, you can see it in my series of shots passing me by. I kinda hoped I might be seen in the footage! Oh well, the search continues.
We did have some film footage of you being thrown out of the women's change room for trying to take pictures, that was unexpected.
why include the doubled footage? two sections of the same TT, what the fuck>?
Anyone know all the music to this 1989 tour
Kalehoff Productions Library Music CD's 1 & 2.
2 CD's of new original music composed by Edd Kalehoff for ABC Sports.
57:31 Non-Weather Channel Music Content.
Patrick O'Hearn/ Homeward Bound, Private Music Sampler 88 version.
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Sadly, this was when the US coverage really went to shit. Way too much Human Interest(TM) crap, way too little substance. Or, as I remember it from an article in Bicycling:
"The Tour de France is not 'Take a Tour of France'. The Tour de France is a *race*."
this was a weird Tour ….Lemond is legend but I woulda loved yo see him compete against a nonlate Delgado …. And for Fignon man that was a tufff L .
Lemond was stronger than Delgado in the final week. Delgado took back 4 minutes in the second week because the favorites wrote him off.
@@frankducky6130 We will never know for certain….every action every attack every climb would have been different if Delgado would not have been late….to speculate that Lemond was stronger in week 3 is not applicable cuz of the handicap. Too many variables to say it would have been identical if the handicap wasn’t there. It would have been more interesting having three champions on a level playing field .
@@PanchoVillasTortilla You are perhaps forgetting that most of the time Delgado lost was down to him being dropped by his own team in the team time trial. For whatever reason he wasn't prepared at the start of the race, it takes 3 weeks to win the Tour de France, Delgado could only blame his lack of form/lack of mental preparedness at the start of the race for being 10 minutes back after 3 stages.