The Last Rider - Greg LeMond Story - Theaters June 23rd
 

Better start lining-up at the theaters now if you want a good seat... :p


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I don't really consider myself a cyclist, but that looks pretty interesting. Don't think I'll go see it in a theater, but maybe RedBox if they carry it.

maybe NetFlix will have it one day

I wonder if Lance will be watching it. :innocent:

It looks like it will be a good movie. His life story is very motivating.

Look for 30 for 30: Slaying the Badger. Great what went on between LeMond and his great friend Bernard Hinault amazing!

The story of LeMond is in the background. The year before his first TdF victory he let Hinault win on team orders so Hinault could get win number 5. Then he won 2 TdF s....got shot and missed 2 seasons at the top of his game. Then he came back to win his 3rd. IMO in a perfect would he would have won 6 TdF s. Later in life he accused Armstrong of cheating, which he was as we now know. Trek was supporting Armstrong so they killed the LeMond line of bikes because he dared to speak the truth. And, this is why I have never owned a Trek and never will.

The story of his first win (he let Hinault win #5 with the understanding that the next year would be his turn only for Hinault to decide not to go along with that and have half his team working for Hinault instead of him) made for an interesting book.

Look for it June 24th.

Same here.

And you remember the heated discussions we had around here during those days? There were a lot of Armstrong fanboys who said a lot of bad things about Lemond… I’m still kinda mad about that, to be honest. 😐

If this doesn't go 10 pages I'm hanging up my blue stars.

I find his win at the 1989 UCI Worlds are overshadowed by his Tour de France wins.

Getting shot in the back by his brother -in-law while hunting cost him 2-3 Tour de France wins and he has had half a century to think about it.

Probably not Netflix - who's actually producing it? I'd expect it to go towards Hulu, Paramount+, or Peacock.

The story of Lemond “letting Hinault win” following team orders is so overblown, and really only resonated with Americans, and people who don’t understand the dynamics of professional cycling.

it was Lemond’s job to ride for Hinault; it was by no means unusual for him to sacrifice his own chances to do his job supporting the team leader.

If Lemond has any gripe, it’s Hinault breaching his promise to work for Lemond in 86, a pledge that Hinault did not need to make and shouldn’t have made in the first place.

You’re setting the bar too low. Try for at least 25.

I'm waiting for the book.

Oh, wait.....

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I own one of those Trek LeMonds and I am so glad I bought it used. I have no use for Trek either.

Damn right!

/hold my beer and watch this//


Look at the size of Greg's legs:

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Dem be some roid rage legs.

OK..anyone seen it?

Weren't Eric Heiden's bigger?

I don't think any theater in my area (South Bend, In) is showing it. I'm assuming it's not available for streaming anywhere?

The Lemond era was just before I took up road cycling but I can't wait to see this film. The nearest town showing it is 35 miles away but I think it will be worth it.

It is playing at a theatre over an hour away but then again 40 minutes is my closest movie theater.

I started racing maybe 5 years before Lemond won his first big race.

I remember the interview after he won the Worlds in 1983 asking how he broke away and his answer was something like, "I put it in the 53 x 12 and went as hard as I could" but in reality, he destroyed them in the climb. Up out of the saddle and then sitting to snick the lever forward. Three times if I remember correctly and then they were gone.