Anyone Remember Steve Bauer
03-31-09, 12:19 PM
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Anyone Remember Steve Bauer
My local cycling club has organized a new charity ride and we have Steve Bauer coming with his team to lead out the ride. I would love to say I'm riding with him but seeing as how I'm a sweep marshel and the fact he'd kick my a** anyway I'm likely just going to see him on a podium speaking after the ride. He also has his own tour company and anyone who raises $2500 gets two days of riding with him, that would be cool.
03-31-09, 12:46 PM
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Perfect timing with Paris-Roubaix coming up to talk about Bauer! Lost Paris-Roubaix by one centimeter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPkdTdjLqnk
Interview here: https://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=1089
Very cool he'll be at the Oshawa ride - I look forward to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPkdTdjLqnk
Interview here: https://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=1089
Very cool he'll be at the Oshawa ride - I look forward to it.
03-31-09, 12:57 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze97yO8JpP8
2 minutes for elbowing.
03-31-09, 01:11 PM
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Too bad that guy was born in Canada and not Belgium. He would be a national hero.
I remember some good stories about him and Phinney where Phinney put him down in a crit. Pretty funny stuff.
I remember some good stories about him and Phinney where Phinney put him down in a crit. Pretty funny stuff.
03-31-09, 01:16 PM
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He's definitely in my tops for favorite riders. Sean Yates and Phil Anderson are up there too.
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I've met him once back at the "Trans Canada Tour" or whatever they tried a bunch of years ago as a pro stage race in Quebec and Ontario. Very nice, very approachable.
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Steve Bauer wore the yellow jersey in the Tour de France for 5 days in 1988 and 9 days in 1990.
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My local cycling club has organized a new charity ride and we have Steve Bauer coming with his team to lead out the ride. I would love to say I'm riding with him but seeing as how I'm a sweep marshel and the fact he'd kick my a** anyway I'm likely just going to see him on a podium speaking after the ride. He also has his own tour company and anyone who raises $2500 gets two days of riding with him, that would be cool.
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He's also director of the "Planet Energy" team that raced la vuelta de Cuba and la vuelta mexico.
Good opportunity for canadian riders.
Good opportunity for canadian riders.
03-31-09, 07:21 PM
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Seems like a real down to earth, friendly, mellow guy. Directs a team, never seems to stress (I got to see him doing the same thing as about 10 other guys, direct a team - him and Jonas Carney seem similar in style, at least externally). Seems like he was that way as a pro too, based on some interviews I read.
Very open minded about approaches to cycling - made the chopper bike for example.
When I think of his career I think of Hincapie's. Both guys have more talent than their palmares shows, and both have had incredible bad luck.
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Very open minded about approaches to cycling - made the chopper bike for example.
When I think of his career I think of Hincapie's. Both guys have more talent than their palmares shows, and both have had incredible bad luck.
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03-31-09, 07:30 PM
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The irony of Steve Bauer: his nickname growing up was The Silver Flash.
He took silver in...
Olympics
Roubaix
Final stage of TdF
Worlds
First Union
Many more.
Super nice guy. Helluva a rider.
Fondriest said there was nothing wrong with what Bauer did.
He took silver in...
Olympics
Roubaix
Final stage of TdF
Worlds
First Union
Many more.
Super nice guy. Helluva a rider.
Used some good hockey skills on Claude Criquielion in '88.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze97yO8JpP8
2 minutes for elbowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze97yO8JpP8
2 minutes for elbowing.
03-31-09, 07:33 PM
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Hey, you saved $2,475.00.
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03-31-09, 07:42 PM
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My pal Dr. Art has ridden with Bauer and literally has a shrine in his house to the guy with signed jerseys, Bauer bike crap, and an actual Bauer steel frame from the 80's. In a glass case no less.
I have framed autographed posters of Lemond and Armstrong on opposite walls of my den. Sometimes, late at night, I hear them yelling 'doper' and 'bitter old man' at each other across the room.
I have framed autographed posters of Lemond and Armstrong on opposite walls of my den. Sometimes, late at night, I hear them yelling 'doper' and 'bitter old man' at each other across the room.
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my wife has one of his road bikes.
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