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.

yes. we do.

yes but I'm not paying $2500 to ride with him.

Any relation to Jack?

Didn't he ride for Motorolla?

Perfect timing with Paris-Roubaix coming up to talk about Bauer! Lost Paris-Roubaix by one centimeter.

http://www.cyclingrevealed.com/Top_2...R_1990a_2a.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPkdTdjLqnk

Interview here: http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=1089

Very cool he'll be at the Oshawa ride - I look forward to it.

Some where, Psimet is shaking his head in disbelief.

Steve Bauer. Canadian, right? Made his fortune in hockey equipment and Slurpees from what I hear.

Used some good hockey skills on Claude Criquielion in '88.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze97yO8JpP8

2 minutes for elbowing.

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.

He's definitely in my tops for favorite riders. Sean Yates and Phil Anderson are up there too.

Yeah, I've heard he's not Belgium's favourite international rider in the world, that's for sure.

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.

Steve Bauer wore the yellow jersey in the Tour de France for 5 days in 1988 and 9 days in 1990.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_I4Snyzw2IM...-h/bauer88.jpg

It only cost $25 or so for him to kick my butt back in the day. There were about 10 of us off the front, and then he just decided to ride away from us. Couldn't do much other than watch him go.

Yes! He was Tony Montana's right hand man until Tony blew him away.

http://www.stevenbauer.info/images/Bauer5CropWeb.jpg

He's also director of the "Planet Energy" team that raced la vuelta de Cuba and la vuelta mexico.

Good opportunity for canadian riders.

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.

cdr

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.

Hey, you saved $2,475.00.

Saw him at the Toronto Bike Show...nice guy.

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.

my wife has one of his road bikes.

Yes; very well.

Yes, plus he rode for La Vie Claire in 1986, when LeMond won his first Tour de France. Andy Hampsten was also on the team that year. What an awesome Tour that was! :)

First road bike I owned was a Bauer. I rode with him a couple of years ago, great guy.