HIGHLIGHTS! Historic '79 Indoor Cycling Classic -- Recipe for Disaster?

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@sparx550 3 ай бұрын

That Lemond kid, turned out to be half decent! My cycling God

@arthurmchugh5184 Ай бұрын

@sparx550 went for a ride in Switzerland when I was there for the world champions with Giɓby Hatton ,Mark whitehead, Greg rode with us ,and the next day he was world champion 🏆

@papasteed 3 ай бұрын

Great stuff. Fun times, back then and seeing it again today. THANKS! 😊

@leoneldelarosaibarria 3 ай бұрын

This is phenomenal to watch! Thank you for sharing 😊

@outerbike 3 ай бұрын

This is super cool - thanks for sharing!

@Forested-pz9cp 3 ай бұрын

Great footage ! Love hearing Phil’s voice !

@qbert5806 3 ай бұрын

the amount of bike racing that Phil has seen and commented on is really something to behold

@Chiller11 3 ай бұрын

He was such a fixture for so many years. Watching Phil and Paul Sherwen do the Tour de France was a July staple when I was a kid in Colorado and later Oregon.

@andyhampsten4252 3 ай бұрын

This is great coverage. More event than the 'up close and personal' nonsense of today.

@starbase606 3 ай бұрын

I've ridden that track. It crushes you on every turn. It's much harder than it looks.

@flyingdutchmanROS Ай бұрын

So awesome to see these legendary riders on this track that I had the honor and pleasure to ride in the spring of 1980 when it came to the Michigan State University campus (where Roger Young went to school). The Meingast brothers did very well and the Stetina brothers were there also. So awesome to see Greg LeMond taking to the track racing so quickly and easily. Learning to get onto that track was quite terrifying but then was easily the most fun I’ve ever had on a bicycle.

@emac626 3 ай бұрын

Love this, but need to point out one thing - Greg, while amazing, was not the first US World Champion of the modern era. The first WC Champ (of the modern era) was Audrey McElmury, 1969 - Brno in the former Czechoslovakia. She was an fantastic rider and a great person. Also surprised that Liggett didn't mention why the Madison is called the Madison - it was also called "the American Race" because it was first run in, you guessed it, Madison Square Garden (NYC) back in the Ancient Era.

@brianbee2869 2 ай бұрын

I grew up racing on Fred Cappy's 7-11 Velodrome in Colorado Springs. Great to see this.

@cesarjom 3 ай бұрын

The front wheel lift was quite the cheeky move!

@benjaminwilson4558 3 ай бұрын

I must be old?! I remember this ! Cycling in the snow-but inside ! This was the beginning, and all there was !

@rman5815 3 ай бұрын

Man those were the days

@FreeMTrider Ай бұрын

Greg LeMond could do just about anything on a bike. I saw him win all three of his Nevada City Classic wins. The Reno Rocket.

@robbchastain3036 2 ай бұрын

Nice to see Greg freely admit that he was initially scared of that track and the racing. No bravado, no boasting, just, yikes, this stuff is scary. No relating to his ascension to the top of the sport, but here,, for sure, I totally relate. I recall lots of times like that with friends on bikes, racing and dueling and daring each other. And it meant a lot to face them and not back down.

@teamprobikeparty7770 3 ай бұрын

I had the privilege of riding with Les a few times a week for years in San Antonio. Great guy.

@AlexeiPavlov 2 ай бұрын

Roger Young works at Los Angeles velodrome

@vancelray 2 ай бұрын

Greg was a beast...

@whatisrealknowtheformula6137 3 ай бұрын

If you’ve never ridden a velodrome, it’s amazingly scary. Kids take to it better than adults because they don’t realize what gravity is.

@SM-yh7rs 3 ай бұрын

Awesome

@stuartmisfeldt3068 3 ай бұрын

I watched the celestial seasons / red zinger race in San Francisco. Look at his arms and shoulders, Lemond was a stud even at 18!

@G.Gorrell 3 ай бұрын

I think most of us had no idea this event existed, and Roger Young was just kid then!! (edit) Oh yeah and then Carter boycotted the 80' Olympics. Oh yeah, that's why I didn't vote in 1980.

@johncopple6479 3 ай бұрын

I was in the military then . Remember that time period very well. It's a good reason not to vote !

@johns3106 3 ай бұрын

Are you upset only because U.S. athletes didn’t get the chance to go to Moscow and take part in Olympic Games in a country that had been aggressive invaders, or did you find the idea of the boycott to be an impotent reaction to the invasion? I’ve always been curious about people’s reasons for being so outraged over the boycott.

@G.Gorrell 3 ай бұрын

@@johns3106 I thought and still think sports / Olympics should not be politized or a boycott of the Olympics should not have been used protest, because it wasn't fair to the athletes.

@whynotride327 3 ай бұрын

Just a question, what did not voting accomplish in your mind? I mean a President was still elected, the sun still came up ,and the world still functioned.

@WaltJubal 3 ай бұрын

Don't ever recall seeing a Joel Stetina.... Wayne and Dale, but Joel I don't recall.

@G.Gorrell 3 ай бұрын

He wasn't dedicated. 🙂

@arthurmchugh5184 3 ай бұрын

He was my roommate in trexlertown and rode Madison with me , good rider 😊😊😊

@G.Gorrell 3 ай бұрын

@@arthurmchugh5184 He was but compared to his two brothers!! Those guys were American Cycling Pioneers!

@arthurmchugh5184 3 ай бұрын

@@G.Gorrell maybe , but Joel was a much better cribbage player !!!!!! 😃😃😃😃😃

@johncopple6479 3 ай бұрын

@@arthurmchugh5184 And Cribbage is much more important than Cycling.. No ! Really!

@EvanPrytherch 3 ай бұрын

Dave Chauner with the mic at the beginning of the vid I think.

@arthurmchugh5184 3 ай бұрын

Field Announcer at the Trexlertown velo !!!😊😊😊😊

@swites 3 ай бұрын

Man, Roger Young was a beast!!

@kanukster 3 ай бұрын

Lol..." we didn't order the spaghetti"!

@kestralrider313 3 ай бұрын

It will be a long time before America has another cyclist with lemond's talent. I raced track for years and and we used a completely different hand position for the Madison throw, we held partner's hand and threw them forward.

@arthurmchugh5184 3 ай бұрын

Artie Greenburg 😊😊😊😊 RIP PICKLE😢😢😢

@johncopple6479 3 ай бұрын

And the UCI just out lawed hand pedaling your bicycle with your stomach on the saddle as cheating!!

@OM-sb2bd 3 ай бұрын

Well at least they were wearing tiny balloon helmets in case of fall. 😆

@johncopple6479 3 ай бұрын

Who is this ESPN broadcaster?

@JamieSmith-fz2mz 3 ай бұрын

Dave Chauner and Mike Aisner

@robbylong2748 3 ай бұрын

Chris Berman

@johncopple6479 3 ай бұрын

@@robbylong2748 Is it Chris Berman ? A very young Chris Berman? I thought so . Another person commented on David Chauner and Eric Heiden but they were. Introduced a little later in the video. Thanks. I am talking about the guy early in the video with the red blazer . Thx again 👍🚴🏜️ Mike Aisner !

@JamieSmith-fz2mz 3 ай бұрын

@@robbylong2748 oh, yeah, that guy. I thought they were talking about the on site guys.

@arklat 3 ай бұрын

If I had known about this, I would have insisted that I be a competitor! Bobby Allen should have informed me!

@bengtwahlstedt1021 3 ай бұрын

Look at the speed they cycling !!!! Steel frames and forks, Campagnolo and shimano components ! You who think todays carbone shit are faster !? Think again !!!!