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Old 07-12-12 | 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by kroozer
So did Hinault ever ride something like that?.
The La Vie Claire team rode these bikes throughout much of the '86 season. If you go to YouTube and search 1986 Tour de France, you'll find lots of videos of individual stages showing Hinault, Lemond, Hampsten, etc. on these bikes.

Here's one example, and not the best (see 0:40 to about 0:55):


They also used these bikes in the team time trial (a tragic day for the 7-11 team, a day after they won the yellow jersey in the clip above):


(Note: On the mountain stages, the team used Look-branded TVT carbon bikes instead of these Reynolds 753 frames.)
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