Columbus SPX... any opinions?

[Mike Muz]

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Rusty
Love the 89 Worlds photo, I hadn't seen that one before and your right its good to get these photos up here! I know they are going pretty fast in that sprint, but the body language between Rooks and Kelly just doesn't look good. :?


Pat

What about it? Rooks, Kelly, Lemond and Konychev isn't it?
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Mike

 

[cloonaghpat]

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Rusty,

That TVT is gorgeous. The Dura Ace 7400 looks really well on it. Still my favourite brakes single pivot Dura Ace 7400.

Mike,

Well Rooks and Kelly were both on the same PDM team at the time. From memory, I think Kelly asked Rooks to lead out the sprint, Rooks looked the other way (Rooks was perfectly entitled to as they were riding in their national colours) and the two PDM guys ended up 3rd and 4th.
It was kinda like the Tour with PDM riders filling up the lower half of the top ten and Lemond winning the overall! I think it Rooks might have had Liege-Bastogne-Liege in the back of his mind. Kelly won that one by getting into a break. I don't think that was PDM's race plan for the day, they were all supposed to be riding for Rooks (who had finished 2nd in the Tour the previous year). It's all in his book "Hunger".

Regards,

Pat
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[rusty bodie]

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thanks for that insight, pat. would you recommend his book? i had always thought of kelly as a nice guy but a bit on the dry side and wondered if his autobiography would be a bit the same way.

if you haven't read it, then i can heartily recommend sean yates autobiog, "it's all about the bike" - a fantastic, easy going and funny account of his amateur and pro cycling days and what it's like to be a beast on the bike!i could read it over and over again!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sean-Yates-It ... SwPcVVksUd

 

[cloonaghpat]

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Rusty,

Yes, Kelly's autobiography is very good, there is a great passage on the PDM years, I don't know how they won anything, they signed riders from former East Germany for 1990 who didn't exactly get on with the Dutch riders in the team lots of in-fighting!
Fignon's biography is also worth buying, he was funny, he didn't rate Bugno much at all and there is great insight into the Renault team and his Milan San Remo wins.
Get them for Christmas!!

Regards,

Pat

 

[Mike Muz]

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Thanks for that Pat

I wasn't aware of the arrangement between the two PDM riders.
There had always been a conflict at the worlds' , owing to the conflict of interest between trade and national teams.
Famously with the Italians in the '90s. Very strong riders, all wanting to win, rather than help a team mate to.
I can second the Sean Yates biography. A great read, and as he's a local, some of the courses and training areas are familiar to me

 

[cloonaghpat]

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Yes, always liked Sean Yates. He had a long career with some great teams.

Pat

 

[Mike Muz]

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It was interesting what he said about his exit from Sky.

 

[rusty bodie]

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awesome - i loved the bit in his book about riding round majorca for fun - it took 10 1/2 hours!! :shock:







what a guy!

 

[cloonaghpat]

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Rusty,
Great photos, it looks like he is dropping Robert Millar in the first photo :shock:
Sean Yates was built for Paris Roubaix.

Mike,

What did he say about Sky? I think he is back working with BMC.

Regards,

Pat

 

[Mike Muz]

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He had a meeting with the management.

It wasn't good for the image of the Sky team, to have Yates on their books after the Armstrong scandal came to light. So he had to go.
Remember seeing him at Paris Roubaix in his British Champs jersey, awesome! I think he came 5th IIRC