Category: hall of fame

  • kopf hoch

    Jan Ullrich

    Don’t leave der Kaiser alone! Kopf hoch JAN ULLRICH!

  • rip

    aerodiario andy rihs

    Uf wiederluege ANDY RIHS. Really sad to hear that the great visionary and creator of the Swiss bicycle manufacturer BMC died today. In the picture ANDY RIHS with BMC Racing Team captain CADEL EVANS on the Champs-Élysées after winning the 2011 TOUR DE FRANCE.
    Photo: Denis Balibouse.

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    Felice Gimondi

    Giro d’Italia(1967/1969/1976)-Tour de France(1965)-Vuelta(1968)-Tour de Romandie(1969)-World Champion(Barcelona 1973 in the picture)-Milano-San Remo(1974)-Paris-Roubaix-Giro di Lombardia(1966/1973)-Paris-Brussel(1966/1976)-Coppa Agostoni-Coppa Placci-Trofeo Baracchi-Coppa Bernocchi-Trofeo Matteotti-Sei giorni di Milano.
    He won 141 races. Tanti auguri GIMONDI

  • il campione del mondo è lui!

    Lance Armstrong

    LANCE ARMSTRONG arriving alone at the World Championship 1993 in Oslo. Not for pussies!

  • tanti auguri corto maltese

    corto maltese guido crepax

    La storia cominciò con un colpo di maglietto…
    Corto Maltese, Favola a Venezia, Guido Crepax, 1997

  • paris-nice

    FRANK VANDENBROUCKE, Paris Nice 1998, 5th stage. In my hall of fame.

  • il giro è lui

    fausto coppi 1949 giro d italia

    «Primo classificato Coppi, in attesa del secondo, trasmettiamo musica da ballo». FAUSTO COPPI palmarès is incredible between the 40’s and the 50’s. He won five times 1940-1947-1949-1952-1953 the Giro d’Italia, in 1949 and 1952 both Giro and the Tour de France, five times the Giro di Lombardia, Milano-San Remo three times, Paris–Roubaix, Flèche Wallonne, was road World Champion in 1953 and in 1942 set the Hour Record. CAMPIONISSIMO!

  • bon anniversaire roi richard

    Richard Virenque Tour de France 1995

    «I soon realised that I didn’t have the brain to be anything but a racing cyclist.» RICHARD VIRENQUE.
    GINO BARTALI, FAUSTO COPPI, CHARLY GAUL, FEDERICO BAHAMONTES, EDDY MERCKX, LUCIEN VAN IMPRE, CLAUDIO CHIAPPUCCI, LAURENT JALABERT, every famous rider worn once in his career the Maillot à pois, but only one, this extraordinary French climber, famous for all his day-long breakaways (242 km at the 95th Paris-Tours in 2001) was able to wear the polka-dot jersey for seven times between 1994 and 2004. Chapeau!
    In the photo RICHARD VIRENQUE wearing the Polkadot jersey, MIGUEL INDURAIN the yellow jersey and LAURENT JALABERT the green jersey at the end of the Tour de France 1995. L’Équipe – Tour de France 100 ans

  • happy birthday

    British super model Twiggy

    Happy birthday!
    Born in London, TWIGGY was the world’s first supermodel, icon of the Swinging London in the late sixties. She collaborated with some of the most talented photographers of the time and appeared in fashion shots and covers for Vogue, British Vogue, American Vogue. Her career started at the age of sixteen, posing for the famous London hairdresser LEONARD.
    Photo: Barry Lategan – National Portrait Gallery, London.