Road Cycling - Tour de France Winners

Lances win list is starting to look as good as Miguel Indurain. I think he will win at least 5 times but can Lance match 5 in a row ?
1903: Maurice Garin
1904: Henri Cornet
1905: Louis Trousselier
1906: René Pottier
1907-08: Lucien Petit-Breton
1909: François Faber
1910: Octave Lapize
1911: Gustave Garrigou
1912: Odile Defraye
1913-14-20: Philippe Thys
1919-22: Firmin Lambot
1921: Léon Scieur
1923: Henri Pélissier
1924-25: Ottavio Bottecchia
1926: Lucien Buysse
1927-28: Nicolas Frantz
1929: Maurice Dewaele
1930-32: André Leducq
1931-34: Antonin Magne
1933: Georges Speicher
1935: Romain Maes
1936-39: Sylvère Maes
1937: Roger Lapebie
1938-48: Gino Bartali
1947: Jean Robic
1949-52: Fausto Coppi
1950: Ferdi Kübler
1951: Hugo Koblet
1953-54-55: Louison Bobet
1956: Roger Walkowiak
1957-61-62-63-64: Jacques Anquetil
1958: Charly Gaul
1959: Féderico Bahamontes
1960: Gastone Nencini
1965: Felice Gimondi
1966: Lucien Aimar
1967: Roger Pingeon
1968: Jan Janssen
1969-70-71-72-74: Eddy Merckx
1973: Luis Ocana
1975-77: Bernard Thevenet
1976: Lucien van Impe
1978-79-81-82-85: Bernard Hinault
1980: Joop Zoetemelk
1983-84: Laurent Fignon
1986-89-90: Greg LeMond
1987: Stephen Roche
1988: Pedro Delgado
1991-92-93-94-95: Miguel Indurain
1996: Bjarne Riis
1997: Jan Ullrich
1998: Marco Pantani
1999-present: Lance Armstrong

Yep. 5 in a row and 6 total certainly isn't out of the question. I don't think he'll ever ride it again after he eventually loses. Of course, he could choose to go out on top, but athletes sure don't do that very often.

He also won in 2002, just to add it to your list...

I found this list looking for a picture of Luis Ocana who won the 1973 Tour on a Motobecane. Does this look like a Motobecane in the photo ? I can't read the downtube too well.

you know, its funny, I have heard of Anquetil, Merckx, Indurain, and of course Lance Armstrong, but I have never heard of Bernard Hinault! weird, eh? why doesn't he have a bike brand named after him? :)

I wouldn't ask Greg Lemond about him!:D

hillyman is funny.:p

Here you go, Phatman. Just what you've been looking for:

http://www.minic2000.fr/

Hinault does have a line of bikes and custom frames. In his book, Road Racing, he has some great information about frame geometry.

Rich

Well, that pic didn't work. Here's the URL to see his bikes:

http://www.minic2000.fr/

Rich

Would Lance have his own make of bikes?

Originally posted by oxologic
Would Lance have his own make of bikes? Since Lance likes Litespeeds, I bet he will go in partners with them. http://espn.go.com/cycling/france99/features/01369334.html

Except for the fact that he's been on Treks exclusively for the last couple of Tours. Not saying that he doesn't prefer Litespeed, but Trek has bent over backwards to make his TT bike and mountain stage bike meet his standards.

Still wouldn't surprise me to see him partnering with Litespeed someday, though.

Check out the Postal Team Bike Bus. How would you like to keep all those Treks rolling!

Riders paid all that money and don't even have to wash their own bikes:D

You know what's ironic? In the first picture that Hillyman posted, there's a FedEx box on the floor of the US POSTAL Team bike bus.

Second picture posted by Hillyman, sorry.

CF12, thanx for noticing that. I didn't. It's a "classic" photo. I'm gonna save that one.

Originally posted by oxologic
Would Lance have his own make of bikes?

I think that the 5000 series might break off into another branch of trek, Armstrong, maybe?