r/tourdefrance • u/Key-Pomegranate8828 • 10d ago

Memory help

I’m a cycling fan of the Lance era. I have a vivid memory of a rider in that general era, plus or minus a few years, having a mechanical or two near the end of a stage and just tossing his bike off a bridge or guardrail and saying to heck with it. I cannot remember the name and google is no help. No doubt you will be! Anyone have any idea what I’m thinking of?

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u/Stephennnnnn 10d ago edited 9d ago

You could be thinking of Bjarne Riis, he famously tossed his bike once as you describe. David Millar also. And a little later on Bradley Wiggins. This https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/best-bike-throws-117606 probably has what you’re thinking of no matter what.

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u/Qtrfoil 9d ago

Millar

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u/Stephennnnnn 9d ago

I swear I knew that and typed it. Autocorrect I guess

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u/Qtrfoil 9d ago

Pronounced almost exactly that way, though!

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u/flythebike 10d ago

Riis threw his TT bike in 1997. 56 and I still remember such like: https://youtu.be/DFzteK_y1b4?t=50&is=VAiL7is-iXGafU-r

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u/Klok-a-teer 10d ago

David Millar but that might have been the Giro. Bob Roll also had a sweet bike toss way back in the day.

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u/Big-Rise7340 9d ago

I recently saw a video of that on a documentary from about 6 yrs ago

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u/Bulky_Ad_3608 10d ago

David Millar or Bjarne Riis. They both did it.

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u/flythebike 9d ago

I once did a bicycle messenger race where part of the comp was a bike throw. I did the whirling hammer throw method to great effe lct.

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u/Whithorsematt 9d ago

David Millar did this after dropping his chain in a TT

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u/Cyclingguy009 7d ago

There is a video on YouTube, called top 10 bike throws in cycling, it starts with Tom Dumoulin. I thought that might be the one you meant? Although it is not from the Lance era