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10 best Aussie cyclists
"g" wrote in message
... my top ten This is a list of current riders. Yes, that's why I didn't do a top10 in the first place! :P This list is more of a personal favourites than a top 10. Stuart O'Grady is higher because I like him more - simple. OK, but McEwen has more stage wins in the Tour than O'Grady and a bundle of stages in the Giro. Also the first Aussie to win any category in the Tour, the Green jersey. He won a phenomenal 20+ races last year. Baden Cooke's palmares are much smaller than O'Grady's, apart from the Green jersey, he is still beginning. Robbie is easily No. out of that lot. He was going to be number 1, but O'Grady was, lets say, in my good books after trying so hard in the tour and being so "aussie" about it in the interviews. Cadel Evans won 2 mtb worlds titles, but its a case of comparing mtb worlds to a road worlds. Road gets 10 times the money, media coverage and more hotly contested than mtb. So I'd count anything won on the road to be harder than off road, sorry. Cadel has only done only a handfull of good things on the road so far. Obtaining the Maglia Rosa? Have we had anyone else do that? I'm sure you're right, but that's why I didn't make a top 10 to start with, my knowledge of other people's race results very limited hip |
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6 day racing is basically a madison. Danny Clark teamed with Englishman
Anthony Doyle to win the race I saw in Munich. I couldn't find on google as to exactly the amount of time they race, suffice to say they start around 1pm and race for 7 or 8 hours with breaks in between finishing up around midnight. There are about a dozen teams, the scoreboard shows who is leading and how many laps behind them each team is. It gets exciting when the intermediate sprints are on, the Oompah band (german guys in leiderhosen and huge moustaches..) stir up the crowd and increase the tempo till the bunch hits the line. During the breaks the crowd are entertained with feature races such as junior races, exhibition match sprints (by the best in the world), points races and Danny singing.. Of course the madison style arm throws makes 6 day racing spectacular. The crowd goes wild when the oldest man in the field (Danny) attacks and laps the field, he is soooo tough! He would win with panache too. Rather than win and go home in a huff (like LA for the first few years of the Tour), I heard Danny would take the microphone with the Oompah band and give the crowd a few renditions, real crooner! Too bad I never saw him do that when I was there Imagine if LA after receiving his trophy on the Champs Elysees took a mike and broke into the Pirates of Penzance on the podium!! :P They luvved Danny over there. hippy wrote: "g" wrote in message ... Saw the number recently, something like 73 wins out of 230+ Six Day races. They lived like dogs, sleeping under boards then racing till midnight the next day.. How does a 6-day race work? Ride as many k's as possible in 6 days or is there more structure to it than that? hippy (I know I could google for this, but it might make for a more interesting thread if I don't ;-) ) |
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6 day racing is basically a madison. Danny Clark teamed with Englishman
Anthony Doyle to win the race I saw in Munich. I couldn't find on google as to exactly the amount of time they race, suffice to say they start around 1pm and race for 7 or 8 hours with breaks in between finishing up around midnight. There are about a dozen teams, the scoreboard shows who is leading and how many laps behind them each team is. It gets exciting when the intermediate sprints are on, the Oompah band (german guys in leiderhosen and huge moustaches..) stir up the crowd and increase the tempo till the bunch hits the line. During the breaks the crowd are entertained with feature races such as junior races, exhibition match sprints (by the best in the world), points races and Danny singing.. Of course the madison style arm throws makes 6 day racing spectacular. The crowd goes wild when the oldest man in the field (Danny) attacks and laps the field, he is soooo tough! He would win with panache too. Rather than win and go home in a huff (like LA for the first few years of the Tour), I heard Danny would take the microphone with the Oompah band and give the crowd a few renditions, real crooner! Too bad I never saw him do that when I was there Imagine if LA after receiving his trophy on the Champs Elysees took a mike and broke into the Pirates of Penzance on the podium!! :P They luvved Danny over there. hippy wrote: "g" wrote in message ... Saw the number recently, something like 73 wins out of 230+ Six Day races. They lived like dogs, sleeping under boards then racing till midnight the next day.. How does a 6-day race work? Ride as many k's as possible in 6 days or is there more structure to it than that? hippy (I know I could google for this, but it might make for a more interesting thread if I don't ;-) ) |
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Ollie Wigg wrote:
Yeah Cadel did win a couple of world championships Cadel won the World Cup series a couple of times, but never won the world championships. Lists at www.uci.ch. |
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Ollie Wigg wrote:
Yeah Cadel did win a couple of world championships Cadel won the World Cup series a couple of times, but never won the world championships. Lists at www.uci.ch. |
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It all depends on your age. I'm old enough & privileged enough to
have seen both Sid Patterson at the old Velodrome (I used to show the advertising slides between races), & Russell Mockridge race on the road.. They were my boyhood heroes. Because of this I would place both on the list, butI would include at least another twenty Aussie cyclists, some of whom I've had the privilege of racing with. I wouldn't attempt to place them in any particular order as they raced at different times with different equipment, under different circumstances. They would include all the cyclists mentioned below. John L. (Fencesitter Deluxe) On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:15:20 +1000, "TJF" wrote: What about Patto (Sid Patterson) 4 times world champion? "Andrew Swan" wrote in message ... g wrote: Because there was a thread on rbr about the 10 best yank cyclist, I'm wondering who makes the list of best Aussies of all time. My relatively uninformed choices: 1. Phil Anderson 2. Danny Clark 3. Russell Mockridge 4. Hubert Opperman 5. Robbie McEwen 6. Stuart O'Grady 7. Brad McGee 8. Neil Stephens 9. Gary Neiwand 10. Sean Eadie ciao GK Martin Vinnicombe? Shane Kelly? &roo |
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It all depends on your age. I'm old enough & privileged enough to
have seen both Sid Patterson at the old Velodrome (I used to show the advertising slides between races), & Russell Mockridge race on the road.. They were my boyhood heroes. Because of this I would place both on the list, butI would include at least another twenty Aussie cyclists, some of whom I've had the privilege of racing with. I wouldn't attempt to place them in any particular order as they raced at different times with different equipment, under different circumstances. They would include all the cyclists mentioned below. John L. (Fencesitter Deluxe) On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:15:20 +1000, "TJF" wrote: What about Patto (Sid Patterson) 4 times world champion? "Andrew Swan" wrote in message ... g wrote: Because there was a thread on rbr about the 10 best yank cyclist, I'm wondering who makes the list of best Aussies of all time. My relatively uninformed choices: 1. Phil Anderson 2. Danny Clark 3. Russell Mockridge 4. Hubert Opperman 5. Robbie McEwen 6. Stuart O'Grady 7. Brad McGee 8. Neil Stephens 9. Gary Neiwand 10. Sean Eadie ciao GK Martin Vinnicombe? Shane Kelly? &roo |
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Sorry, wrong terminology.
"John Stevenson" wrote in message u... Ollie Wigg wrote: Yeah Cadel did win a couple of world championships Cadel won the World Cup series a couple of times, but never won the world championships. Lists at www.uci.ch. |
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Sorry, wrong terminology.
"John Stevenson" wrote in message u... Ollie Wigg wrote: Yeah Cadel did win a couple of world championships Cadel won the World Cup series a couple of times, but never won the world championships. Lists at www.uci.ch. |
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did someone forget Pat Jonker??
15th in the TDF is a pretty awesome effort in my book. "hippy" wrote in message ... "g" wrote in message ... my top ten This is a list of current riders. Yes, that's why I didn't do a top10 in the first place! :P This list is more of a personal favourites than a top 10. Stuart O'Grady is higher because I like him more - simple. OK, but McEwen has more stage wins in the Tour than O'Grady and a bundle of stages in the Giro. Also the first Aussie to win any category in the Tour, the Green jersey. He won a phenomenal 20+ races last year. Baden Cooke's palmares are much smaller than O'Grady's, apart from the Green jersey, he is still beginning. Robbie is easily No. out of that lot. He was going to be number 1, but O'Grady was, lets say, in my good books after trying so hard in the tour and being so "aussie" about it in the interviews. Cadel Evans won 2 mtb worlds titles, but its a case of comparing mtb worlds to a road worlds. Road gets 10 times the money, media coverage and more hotly contested than mtb. So I'd count anything won on the road to be harder than off road, sorry. Cadel has only done only a handfull of good things on the road so far. Obtaining the Maglia Rosa? Have we had anyone else do that? I'm sure you're right, but that's why I didn't make a top 10 to start with, my knowledge of other people's race results very limited hip |
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