any info about Andy Hampstead
10-23-06, 04:22 PM
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any info about Andy Hampstead
does anyone know what happened to Andy Hampstead I was looking for a list of his career victories.. doing a web search and I couldn't find anything.. He was the real deal in his day.. first on the STI shifters.. solidified his win of the Giro on argueably the most god awful stages ever ridden in any race anywhere on the Gavia.... his win on Alpe d’Huez.. he was often criticized for not being agressive enough.. but he was a champion... does anyone have a list of his pro victories??
not to mention haulin Gregs ass over half of France
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not to mention haulin Gregs ass over half of France
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10-23-06, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by merckxxx
does anyone know what happened to Andy Hampstead I was looking for a list of his career victories.. doing a web search and I couldn't find anything.. He was the real deal in his day.. first on the STI shifters.. solidified his win of the Giro on argueably the most god awful stages ever ridden in any race anywhere on the Gavia.... his win on Alpe d’Huez.. he was often criticized for not being agressive enough.. but he was a champion... does anyone have a list of his pro victories??
not to mention haulin Gregs ass over half of France
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not to mention haulin Gregs ass over half of France
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Your answer should be coming from devote fan CyLowe97 soon.....he always wears that Andy jersey with pride!
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Hampstead's on Long Island, I think....
He's building bikes, among other things. He also owns a bike touring company....Cinghiale Cycling Tours. From what I hear, it's the way to cycle Tuscany. Not much better than cycling in Italy with a former Giro champion.
Personally, I'd love to do the Passo di Gavia with him and hear him tell the story...
He's building bikes, among other things. He also owns a bike touring company....Cinghiale Cycling Tours. From what I hear, it's the way to cycle Tuscany. Not much better than cycling in Italy with a former Giro champion.
Personally, I'd love to do the Passo di Gavia with him and hear him tell the story...
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Go ride with Andy - https://www.cinghiale.com/
10-23-06, 05:06 PM
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1988: Look pedals but no STI.
On his way back to the States after his Giro win he chatted with a woman on the plane next to him. He told her he had been "Touring Italy by bicycle". Then there was a huge crowd greeting him in the airport all dressed in pink.
On his way back to the States after his Giro win he chatted with a woman on the plane next to him. He told her he had been "Touring Italy by bicycle". Then there was a huge crowd greeting him in the airport all dressed in pink.
10-23-06, 05:08 PM
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I think he debuted the tap shifters at a domestic race in 1988....
Red Zinger? Coors Classic?
Memory bad....getting old.....
Red Zinger? Coors Classic?
Memory bad....getting old.....
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Andy is the real thing but you have to be careful not to mistake his brother for him. Andy's the shorter one of the two.
10-23-06, 09:24 PM
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Originally Posted by ed073
I think he debuted the tap shifters at a domestic race in 1988....
Red Zinger? Coors Classic?
Memory bad....getting old.....
Red Zinger? Coors Classic?
Memory bad....getting old.....
10-23-06, 09:45 PM
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that's right.....STI on the TVM Zullo's.
nice bikes.
{flashback to the mane of hair out the back of the Cinelli leather hairnet and teeth pointing to all point of the compass....should've won '88 Ronde but Planckaert was extra-terrestrial.]
nice bikes.
{flashback to the mane of hair out the back of the Cinelli leather hairnet and teeth pointing to all point of the compass....should've won '88 Ronde but Planckaert was extra-terrestrial.]
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In another thread someone opined that he was a real jerk, based in part on the assertion he didn't share prize money for the Giro with his team. My not well founded impression had always been that he seemed like a good guy. Anyone with any insight?
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Originally Posted by classic1
I've got that race on video
can you convert to DVD**********
I want that one and the '88 Worlds from Ronse where Bauer got on with 800m to go.....then put Crique into the gutter.
10-24-06, 01:25 AM
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VCR **** itself. I'll see what I can do when I get a new one. I've been wanting to convert some of the old VHS stuff to DVD.
I've seen the 88 worlds but don't have it. Great last two laps that one. If I could get my 87 Roche world title video back I'd be a happy man.
I've seen the 88 worlds but don't have it. Great last two laps that one. If I could get my 87 Roche world title video back I'd be a happy man.
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Originally Posted by classic1
I've seen the 88 worlds but don't have it. Great last two laps that one.
Brilliant bike racing.
10-24-06, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by roadwarrior
Hampstead's on Long Island, I think....
He's building bikes, among other things. He also owns a bike touring company....Cinghiale Cycling Tours. From what I hear, it's the way to cycle Tuscany. Not much better than cycling in Italy with a former Giro champion.
Personally, I'd love to do the Passo di Gavia with him and hear him tell the story...
He's building bikes, among other things. He also owns a bike touring company....Cinghiale Cycling Tours. From what I hear, it's the way to cycle Tuscany. Not much better than cycling in Italy with a former Giro champion.
Personally, I'd love to do the Passo di Gavia with him and hear him tell the story...
That would be Hempstead, not Hampstead, Long Island ("pronounced "Lawnguyland", thank you!).
Hampstein was never a media cyclist. Of the bikem he was a quite and withdrawn guy, quite the opposite of Mr. Armstrong. I remember Hampstein finishing fourth in the '86 Tour de France, taking home with him the Maillot Blanc. He subsequently had the "next great thing" yoked to his neck upon joining 7-11, and rode it to a beautiful victory in the '88 Giro (and I do remember that epic stage on the Gavia), but took a beating that same year in the Tour. My favorite memories of him, aside from actually meeting him in 1989 when the Tour de Trump came to New York City's Central Park, was watching him win a beautuful mountain stage of the '85 Giro. I also remember when he won that stage on L'Alpe d'Huez, and it actually made it to the evening sports report alongside Major League Baseball.
Of interesting note was a picture of him in one of my bike mags from, I think, 1990 when he was riding with this ultra-radical prototype "STI" lever. It was a grainy photo, with the top-secret shifter/brake combo that had become standard MTB technology by then, circled in red with only a breif description underneath.
