Originally Posted by
caloso
A couple of years ago during the TdF there was a two-man break that had been away for hours. They rode into the finishing town together and as they passed under the flamme rouge, they shook hands, said bon chance, and then duked it out for the win.
Even though this was during Lancemania, this is the moment that hooked me for a lifetime.
My lifetime fan moment was late in the 2006 Giro. Jens Voigt was in a long break with a Spanish rider, mountain finish, Basso on CSC in the maglia rosa. Voigt ordered not to work on the last climb, but to do the wheelsucker sprint for the stage win. Voigt rolls up to his companion, speaks, pats the guy's back...and sits up in the last kilometer. No one shows grit and class like Jens.