I started following cycling in 1982, soon as I read features on Bernard Hinault I knew I was immersed in a golden era of cycling, he was up for the giro /tour double of which he achieved, who could not be impressed by his aggressive riding style, leading from the front to win like we want all true champions to win .Any talk of betrayal with Lemond in 86 is a nonsense, what does everyone want him to do, gift a victory to Lemond, that would have been politics, corruption and a hollow victory for Lemond. Both Hinault and Lemond were fantastic champions and I feel privileged to have witnessed their fantastic endeavours. Bravo Hinault and all the other fantastic riders that made up this era.
This was really an incredible feat: Hinault arrives at the Roubaix velodrome in the company of de Vlaeminck and Moser -- two of the finest specialists the event has ever produced -- and outguns them in the sprint by leading out from a whole lap in advance. It seems like a crazy strategy, but in effect he's using his TT skills to render the sprint moot. At 5:20, with one lap to go, Hinault reaches down and switches into a gigantic gear. Then he starts a slow-burn acceleration as everyone else gathers on his wheel, hoping to jump him in the final straightaway. But, when they get there, Moser and de Vlaeminck find that he's built up too much speed to be jumped. It's a master class in how TT specialists can beat sprinters.
I'm not certain he shifted gear. Look carefully at the cadence. Yes, he does touch his shifter, but his cadence never dips for so much as a millisecond. He simply out-muscled everyone. Incredible talent. Incredible, period.
Chapeau l'artiste, espérons que cette année Julian Alaphilippe par exemple en fasse tout autant ... en attendant Hinault nous a bien régalé durant toute sa carrière et çà vaut un grand merci MONSIEUR !!!
In his book "Road Racing Technique and Training" he talks about the tailwind on the finish straight and how it's difficult to come over the top in those conditions so he had to sprint from the front.
Class! From the time when Paris-Roubaix was not the specialist race it is today and most of the top riders participated. I've heard/read that in the following year Hinault had a bad day in PR, and swore he'd never race it again, dismissing it as glorified cyclo-cross. I know he was never really prominent in this race again after this win.
Petite anecdote : a l'arrivée Eddy Merckx regarde de Vllaeminck et dis genre t'as foutu quoi ?? Le Roger repond " j'aurai voulu t'y voir toi en face d'un mec comme ça !!! " voila c'etait ça Hinault on regarde et on s'ecrase
The badger takes 'em to the hurt locker. What a bloody fantastic clip and what a show of force at the end. I just wish it was a bit easier to get hold of Hinault's book in English. I guess bashing away at the French version could only improve my language skills.
I'd like to see a tour champ in today's era walk away from a classics master like hinault did from f Moser....amazing athlete, I think even better than mercyx
Considering Moser was on the juice (admitted it before being exposed) Hinault must have been doing some amount of gear, hardly surprising he bossed things and refused to do drug tests.
@@tonyfranklin8306 juice? He admitted no such thing. Juice is EPO. Didn’t exist when he raced. Blood transfusions weren’t illegal at the time. Learn your PED history. Blood trans is like a tune up. EPO is adding a supercharger to a Hemi. Typical “they all doped” comment. Popping a few bennys and taking a pain killer in the 60-80s bears no relation to 90s on EPO, HGH and Test.
Someone once asked hinault if he thought winning Paris roubaix was the pinnacle of cycling. He replied Winning Paris Roubaix? whats it got to do with cycling! Ha! he hated the race! and its true you need a lot of luck and all sorts can happen, and most of it is not down to how well you ride, so he had a good point.
@@pinarellolimoncello I think Hinault was better than Merckx. He decided at only 27 he would stop his career at 32 and when he stopped he still was number one. He probably could have won 6 or 7 Tour de France while Coppi, Anquetil or Merckx had ended their career on the knees and pitifully...
Can you imagine, nowadays Froome who beats on the cobbles people like Van Avermaet or Sagan just like Hinault did with De Vlaeminck and Moser ??? When I see anglosaxons parvenu of this sport who say bullshits like "Froome is the best ever" (or 10 years ago "Armstrong is the best ever")....ahahahah they cause me a lousy laugh. They don't know and not even respect the history of this sport that they begun to follow because of the biggest cheater ever (Armstrong of course)... They don't know how much great was people like Hinault, or Merckx, or Coppi etc.
A real rider. Rode all the races, and could win any of them. did not make a schedule so he could just win the tour. A whole other level of cyclist! Armstrong could never follow Hinault's schedule. Nothing against Lance, but the press has made him into the best ever, simply not the case. How many racers could win the final sprint in paris, mountain climbs, classics, ect.......a handfull, maybe only 2.
This should have been #5 for the gypsy. I think if they had sprinted together 10 times, the gypsy would have taken 7 of them. Hinault pulled this one out of a hat.
Well loosing Paris roubaix in any sprint must be hard to take, let alone being led out for a whole lap, even being passed twice! Yes I bet Roger De V was fuming also!, but you have to take your hat of to a win like that.
Ha! yeah they should have FLOWN when they saw hinault crash in front of them. Being a Cornishman I know what kind of Charactor Hinault was, Breton aggression.
@bmaniac1 It really has nothing to do with the difference between the riders of the past and present; it's the sport. When so much money enters the game, the game changes. The high-end focus to peak during the TDF = money. The rise of doping = money. The endless comparisons of the 'integrity' of riders past and present is just pointless.
LOL yeah and you had to ride with an inner tube around your neck . Not to mention all the materails and equipment differences, todays riders would struggle in a sprint if they had to change gear on the down tube levers!
bernard hinault une vraie dure tete etant belge je préféré les moser maertens van linden ecT.... ET PUIS lors d'une petite quermesse ou monsieur hinault etait venu préparer ce paris roubais 81 il etait venu a wasmuel au grand prix cerami ou il finira la course au bon milieu du ploton quant tout a coup quelques imbéciles commencèrent a le siffler penssaient ils peut etre que pour bernard cette course de 2 eme cathégorie etait son objectif etant tre content le le voir pour la 1 ere foisen vrai je me dit ce sera la derniere fois ici ,l annee suivante il fut present au depart il en avait fait son objectif cette fois il remporta ce grand prix en solitaire et la depuis je ne le regarde plus de la facon ce coureur est exeptionnel
@imajeepster yaeah thats right after winning it he said it was for dickheads! lol also he said whats it got to do with cycling...and in a way he is right its all about luck weather keeping out of crashes and really nothing to do with skill or riding ability...thats what he meant...I think! lol
I respectfully disagree. It is not opinion, but victories. Hinault is #2. Armstrong not even in the top 5, maybe higher. He pretty much raced 1 race a year, but I know you know all that already.
De Vlamink è Moser non hanno dato tutto in volata visto che di Roubaix ne avevano già vinta più di una hanno avuto rispetto del campione del mondo in casa sua altro ciclismo
I started following cycling in 1982, soon as I read features on Bernard Hinault I knew I was immersed in a golden era of cycling, he was up for the giro /tour double of which he achieved, who could not be impressed by his aggressive riding style, leading from the front to win like we want all true champions to win .Any talk of betrayal with Lemond in 86 is a nonsense, what does everyone want him to do, gift a victory to Lemond, that would have been politics, corruption and a hollow victory for Lemond. Both Hinault and Lemond were fantastic champions and I feel privileged to have witnessed their fantastic endeavours. Bravo Hinault and all the other fantastic riders that made up this era.
Quel énorme champion. Et quel panache !
Merci d'avoir mis en ligne un tel moment de sport.
he kept the speed so high that Moser and DVM were not able to pass him - total class - legend!!!
Une bien belle victoire,
Bravo,
Champion,
👍👍👍👍👍👍
Chapeau l'artiste pour votre carrière qui fait de vous un des plus grands champion de ce sport !
This was really an incredible feat: Hinault arrives at the Roubaix velodrome in the company of de Vlaeminck and Moser -- two of the finest specialists the event has ever produced -- and outguns them in the sprint by leading out from a whole lap in advance. It seems like a crazy strategy, but in effect he's using his TT skills to render the sprint moot. At 5:20, with one lap to go, Hinault reaches down and switches into a gigantic gear. Then he starts a slow-burn acceleration as everyone else gathers on his wheel, hoping to jump him in the final straightaway. But, when they get there, Moser and de Vlaeminck find that he's built up too much speed to be jumped. It's a master class in how TT specialists can beat sprinters.
Sebastian Lecourt perfect description of what transpired I dont think even Eddie could have won like that
@@joynthis you're not miserable
ouais mais c'est le blaireau " the badger"!
I'm not certain he shifted gear. Look carefully at the cadence. Yes, he does touch his shifter, but his cadence never dips for so much as a millisecond. He simply out-muscled everyone. Incredible talent. Incredible, period.
@@death2pc Yes, he shifted gears. He said in the interview he shifted from 14 to 13.
De Vlaeminck , Kuiper , Moser , Demeyer , Hinault : grands coureurs !!
Chapeau l'artiste, espérons que cette année Julian Alaphilippe par exemple en fasse tout autant ... en attendant Hinault nous a bien régalé durant toute sa carrière et çà vaut un grand merci MONSIEUR !!!
Quel monsieur ce Bernard. Il tombe, il revient et il gagne !
Bernard hinault savait tout faire sur un vélo, merci Mr Hinault 👏👍
a Tour De France winner riding Paris-Roubaix and winning it, something you'll never see again!
on ne s' en lasse pas !!!
Bernard hinault c'était le meilleur et il restera le meilleur
In his book "Road Racing Technique and Training" he talks about the tailwind on the finish straight and how it's difficult to come over the top in those conditions so he had to sprint from the front.
Que grande era Hinault
you wont really get rid of Hinault that easily! it's hard to race with someone with that personality! THE BADGER!
Class! From the time when Paris-Roubaix was not the specialist race it is today and most of the top riders participated. I've heard/read that in the following year Hinault had a bad day in PR, and swore he'd never race it again, dismissing it as glorified cyclo-cross. I know he was never really prominent in this race again after this win.
seguramente uno de los mejores sprints de la historia.brabo hinault
Un des 3 plus grands.
cette victoire est indescriptible,un vrai chef
d,oeuvre de le blaireau
j'ai vécu ça en direct j'avais 9 ans
Petite anecdote : a l'arrivée Eddy Merckx regarde de Vllaeminck et dis genre t'as foutu quoi ?? Le Roger repond " j'aurai voulu t'y voir toi en face d'un mec comme ça !!! " voila c'etait ça Hinault on regarde et on s'ecrase
Una prova di superiorità disarmante. Nel ciclismo moderno, dopo Merckx, c'è Hinault.
BERNARD HINAULT HE IS THE BOSS
genio,mito,leyenda,el mejor ciclista frances de todos los tiempos y el segundo mejor de la historia despues de EDDY MERCKX
totalmente de acuerdo
ruben loys And Fausto Coppi
De acuerdo contigo,pero después de Eddy ,Fausto Coppi y después Hinault.
Superclase
je connait Le blaireau les chutes.les crevaisons brefs! il faut que ça passe ou ça casse.bravo super.pour la video Que de bons souvenirs.belle epoque
The badger takes 'em to the hurt locker. What a bloody fantastic clip and what a show of force at the end. I just wish it was a bit easier to get hold of Hinault's book in English. I guess bashing away at the French version could only improve my language skills.
Patrí k mojím obľúbeným cestným cyklistom... He is one of my favorite road cyclists
Increible! Hanault!
I'd like to see a tour champ in today's era walk away from a classics master like hinault did from f Moser....amazing athlete, I think even better than mercyx
Considering Moser was on the juice (admitted it before being exposed) Hinault must have been doing some amount of gear, hardly surprising he bossed things and refused to do drug tests.
@@tonyfranklin8306 juice? He admitted no such thing. Juice is EPO. Didn’t exist when he raced. Blood transfusions weren’t illegal at the time. Learn your PED history. Blood trans is like a tune up. EPO is adding a supercharger to a Hemi.
Typical “they all doped” comment. Popping a few bennys and taking a pain killer in the 60-80s bears no relation to 90s on EPO, HGH and Test.
@WELLBRAN you have to admire the guy, he hated every minute but he was determined. Bonne Fete, Bernard!
Nobody BUT Him could win like that!
grande bernard è stato uno dei piu' forti..
du grand Hinault
Incredible strength on a bike Hinault had. He could just whack it into a big gear and kill everyone.
Pure class.!
Someone once asked hinault if he thought winning Paris roubaix was the pinnacle of cycling. He replied Winning Paris Roubaix? whats it got to do with cycling! Ha! he hated the race! and its true you need a lot of luck and all sorts can happen, and most of it is not down to how well you ride, so he had a good point.
Fantastic.
Rare to lead out a sprint and win
Unless you're super strong. The advantage is always with the rider that comes out from behind the wheel of another rider. !
@@BuffaloBuffalo-uc6zp very much so
He was like Seb Coe - he wasn't always the fastest, but he could sprint for longer and that was what counts.
The Second best after Merckx !!!
Spot on. He might even have won an extra tour de France or 2 if he hadn't had knee problems but I realise that is purely speculative.
@@pinarellolimoncello I think Hinault was better than Merckx. He decided at only 27 he would stop his career at 32 and when he stopped he still was number one. He probably could have won 6 or 7 Tour de France while Coppi, Anquetil or Merckx had ended their career on the knees and pitifully...
E Panizza?......dove lo metti?.....
Hinault just got flaming mad to go on the deck! So he took it out on those poor guys! lol
La patron !
++
The Badger never lets go!
leo los comentarios traduccion en español , gano porque fue un autentico superclase y un fuera de serie , punto
Can you imagine, nowadays Froome who beats on the cobbles people like Van Avermaet or Sagan just like Hinault did with De Vlaeminck and Moser ??? When I see anglosaxons parvenu of this sport who say bullshits like "Froome is the best ever" (or 10 years ago "Armstrong is the best ever")....ahahahah they cause me a lousy laugh. They don't know and not even respect the history of this sport that they begun to follow because of the biggest cheater ever (Armstrong of course)... They don't know how much great was people like Hinault, or Merckx, or Coppi etc.
hinault: le meilleur!!! 12" dans les 250 derniers mètres après 260 bornes... no comment
Le blaireau,
Les, a mis à sa, botte..
La Bretagne, qui gagne.
Merci hinault..
A real rider. Rode all the races, and could win any of them. did not make a schedule so he could just win the tour. A whole other level of cyclist! Armstrong could never follow Hinault's schedule. Nothing against Lance, but the press has made him into the best ever, simply not the case. How many racers could win the final sprint in paris, mountain climbs, classics, ect.......a handfull, maybe only 2.
genio !!!!
@audible67 Yep, money changes everything. but hinault was in something else. 250 plus victories...that's just crazy good.
van petegem style 1966......coreur puissant...
good one
Their mindset must have been "Anybody but HIM!"
I think he said it had NOTHINg to do with cycling, meaning that its really all down to luck and good fortune and not on form
This should have been #5 for the gypsy. I think if they had sprinted together 10 times, the gypsy would have taken 7 of them. Hinault pulled this one out of a hat.
I noticed after the finish line none of the other riders came to congratulate him..miserable bunch.
Where are the French champions now?
At school
Well loosing Paris roubaix in any sprint must be hard to take, let alone being led out for a whole lap, even being passed twice! Yes I bet Roger De V was fuming also!, but you have to take your hat of to a win like that.
Baux cadeau a Bernard..combine pour gagne la Roubaix a le bretone
@bmaniac1 no argument there!
Les Bretons les meilleurs !!!
Breizh en force !!!!!!!
@drhouse1971 Yes and every other race also! and no stupid helmets getting in the way
Ha! yeah they should have FLOWN when they saw hinault crash in front of them. Being a Cornishman I know what kind of Charactor Hinault was, Breton aggression.
Out willed everyone.
@bmaniac1 It really has nothing to do with the difference between the riders of the past and present; it's the sport. When so much money enters the game, the game changes. The high-end focus to peak during the TDF = money. The rise of doping = money. The endless comparisons of the 'integrity' of riders past and present is just pointless.
most dont shift during a sprint....
LOL yeah and you had to ride with an inner tube around your neck . Not to mention all the materails and equipment differences, todays riders would struggle in a sprint if they had to change gear on the down tube levers!
Bernie was one tough son of a bitch - leads out the sprint and takes it! He rubbed their faces in it - and there was nothing they could do about it.
In some ways I rate hinault better than Eddie
bernard hinault une vraie dure tete etant belge je préféré les moser maertens van linden ecT.... ET PUIS lors d'une petite quermesse ou monsieur hinault etait venu préparer ce paris roubais 81 il etait venu a wasmuel au grand prix cerami ou il finira la course au bon milieu du ploton quant tout a coup quelques imbéciles commencèrent a le siffler penssaient ils peut etre que pour bernard cette course de 2 eme cathégorie etait son objectif etant tre content le le voir pour la 1 ere foisen vrai je me dit ce sera la derniere fois ici ,l annee suivante il fut present au depart il en avait fait son objectif cette fois il remporta ce grand prix en solitaire et la depuis je ne le regarde plus de la facon ce coureur est exeptionnel
@sprotzerdehally Greg? is that you? still bitter, eh?
25 ans d'attente pour qu'un français ne regagne Roubaix, et avec le maillot arc-en-ciel.
One great doper beats other great dopers, plus ca change ...
Hinault said he hated this race. Though he won, he made a lot of anti publicity for P-R.
Van Dongen Grimon bb
Just saw your comment here haha yes Celtic "neversaydie" attitude Or if you are going to die take out as many others on the way! haha!
@imajeepster yaeah thats right after winning it he said it was for dickheads! lol also he said whats it got to do with cycling...and in a way he is right its all about luck weather keeping out of crashes and really nothing to do with skill or riding ability...thats what he meant...I think! lol
Il lachait rien nanard un vrai guerrier breton de surcroît 😉
belle performance mais que les commentaires français sont pénibles.
wow !! l'enfoiré !!! ils n'ont JAMAIS réussi à le redoubler dans le vélodrome !!!
Hinault was a great athlete and unfortunately a poor sportsman.
I respectfully disagree. It is not opinion, but victories. Hinault is #2. Armstrong not even in the top 5, maybe higher. He pretty much raced 1 race a year, but I know you know all that already.
grande hinault, ma anche moser era forte...
@ZInnO007 Coppi.
Ce qu'il n'est pas dit, c'est que c'est un chien qui le fait tomber !
Qui lui a donné la rage
Duclos déjà de la partie
il numero 1 è moser!!!
MOSER: 3 primo, 2 secondo, 2 terzo;
MERCKX: 3 primo, 2 secondo
man
une tete dur un vrai breton
he said the race is bullshit lol
Que mala bestia.
De Vlamink è Moser non hanno dato tutto in volata visto che di Roubaix ne avevano già vinta più di una hanno avuto rispetto del campione del mondo in casa sua altro ciclismo