Ya don’t fuck with a Planckaert. Do so at your own peril.
And that’s any shorts length debate settled, too.
Ya don’t fuck with a Planckaert. Do so at your own peril.
And that’s any shorts length debate settled, too.
Mmm, hairnet draped from obscenely long quill stem! Properly worn cap! Lubed guns! Freshly shaved face. And, how about the classy watch?
Too many gaudy “Real Housewives” oversized watches adorning toothpick wrists these days.
Uh oh, not quite so smooth and dapper…
I see two scenarios here: 1) From the look on face of the fellow behind him, Planckaert must of told Mr Green Polo to F-off. Or 2) He’s about to tear a new one into disembodied hand about to touch the spotless jersey.
Either way, badass then, badass now. Except now he looks like an almost washed-up roadie for an 80’s hair band.
Perfect cap luft with upturned peak.
Awesome. I wonder which edition of worlds the photo is from. Based on the logo on the bibs, I’d guess 79 or 80.
The year would be 1988 and the picture taken at the worlds. He rode for Panasonic the year before and ADR-W Cup, Bottechia, Coors Light in 1989. 190 victories listed for the man with his Panasonic years (84-87) being the best with 61 wins.
In the famous Jeff Pierce photo of the “sprinters with sponges” Eddy is on the left, Van Calster in the middle and Hinault on the right.
Talk about being from a cycling family: Willy and Walter were older brothers, Jo was his uncle and Francesco is his son. And anyone would question anything he did on the bike?
I think that could be Fondriest behind Mr Red polo shirt. If it is, it’s the year Fondriest won after Bauer and Criquelion got “tangled” up in the sprint. Eddy didn’t place.
@wiscot
Thus the “F-you and all of your decedents” look on his face.
@wiscot
Is that Eddy P? Why did I think it was Walter?
He makes Marcel Kittle look like Marcel Kittens with quads like that!
@brett
3PS perfection.
And those guns.
Don’t even start me on how perfectly that jersey fits him. The biggest bane of the modern Cycling fashion is the speed jersey and speed suit. Fuck that shit. Just push on the pedals for Merckx’s sake.
@wiscot
This one…
From this article…
@frank
Tell me about it. I did the Tuesday night smashfest in my Giro New Road gear tonight and it didn’t slow me down any. (Possibly because I can’t go much slower.)
@brett
You’re not going to turn up at the Keepers’ Tour in mtb kit are you?
@Chris
Is that a challenge? I think Frank would have kittens… so maybe, yeah!
The real question is, are you gonna turn up at Keepers Tour in any kit?
@DCR
That is possibly the greatest photo of all time.
@brett
If I do make it to the Keepers’ Tour, I will be wearing kit, yes.
Unless the weight loss has gone so well that I want to show everyone.
@wiscot
Definitely Fondriest, good spotting. Ronse, Belgium 1988
@brett
And the white helmet looks surprisingly….modern.
@Ccos
Indeed it does. A better look at it.
Yeah, that white helmet looks a whole lot like some of the new aero lids. I’m intrigued by Kittel’s new helmet and also those Lampre were wearing at the Tour Down Under.
And goodness, those are some guns. They’re so massive they’ve caused the Wall Squatter to lose control of his eyebrow, which is arched in sheer wonderment.
@brett
Yup, THAT one! Thanks for posting.
@wiscot
It looks like the yellow jersey flamed the tape clean off his bars.. hammer time!!
@brett
I can’t believe you ride your road bike in mountainbike clothes. And you call yourself a Keeper.
Lets not overlook the perfect hairnet placement, either. What a stud.
@Ron
Oh, he’s still got it.
But I have to say I have absolutely no idea what is going on here in this photo. Beyond bizarre. This is why Belgian TV doesn’t make it Stateside.
And speaking of killer guns and the shorts the right length to show them off, I always had a thing for Claveyrolat.
@wiscot
I was at the Worlds in 1988. I am an American and was racing with a small Belgian amateur team that season. I watched the race from about 100m from the finish. The finish is still burned into my memory. I still race and manage a small amateur program where we revere the V and the awesome Belgian men!
@frank
And speaking of killer guns and the shorts the right length to show them off shorter than short shorts…
…whilst towing the press bikes home.
@frank
Racing then
Racing now
@frank
as did team mate Paul Kimmage
http://www.independent.ie/sport/the-fatal-attraction-of-claveyrolat-26262128.html
You know, when helmets and sunglasses became de rigeur in the peloton, something was lost in our ability to really connect. Look at Plankaert’s face. That’s a man whose gas light is flashing and his check engine light has just come on. And he’s ignoring them both.
@Tom Saccone
We need to hear more from you!
@ped
@wiscot
I had to put those two pics side by side to compare. Emotion, humanity, Kodachrome warmth. Corporate, digital, robots. Sure, it’s partly nostalgia, but photographers definitely have a harder job capturing emotion under sunnies and helmets, and I expect contemporary riders aren’t allowed to express much individual character anyway.
@wiscot
Very well said. I think so much of that is connected to the sunglasses, and not being able to see in to the riders’ eyes.
@pistard
Hmm.
@The Grande Fondue
Touché, but I still think the eyes have it. I miss seeing the shift too:
@The Grande Fondue
That’s a good image but still lacks a certain feel. That aside it was a great stage to watch at TDU. I am finding a fondness for the earliest races of the year. They seem to wet the whistle just in time for the classics.
Richie does a good pain face, “I’m about to take a few big bites of the V, are you coming with me?”
Cuddles has his tongue in cheek thing going one last time, Rohan Dennis seems pretty OK with the whole thing and everyone else just gritting the teeth.
from http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/01/porte-climbs-to-stage-5-win-in-the-tour-down-under-dennis-retains-overall-lead/
Porte has the Goldilocks Principle sorted at least. Dennis looks like he’s off to school.
And Cuddles needs to keep riding… those guns are going to waste.
@pistard
Oh, it’s on.
(Ignoring for the moment that J-Rod always takes his glasses off…)
Do you think anyone had the nerve to give it to Moser about the length of his shorts? A little playful ribbing at the start line.
Suffering face, Andrew Talansky – Il Lombardia 2012
Thought these worth posting……different weather for Spring Classics
Moser will be wearing wool shorts which rode up no matter how much you didn’t want them to.
@Pedale.Forchetta
Fixed your post.
@The Grande Fondue
He gives good pain face, but I see your glasses covered pain face and raise you a stage 5 TdF.
http://images.cyclingtips.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014-Tour-de-France-Stage-5-16.jpg
Here’s another set of images from this year’s Tour, Stage 5. Sunnies off and you can really read the effort and emotion.
http://www.steephill.tv/2014/tour-de-france/photos/stage-05/#294-IMG_0341.jpg
@brett
Ahah! Yeah it could be!
Actually I hope to have the chance to take some photos of Richie Porte at the next Giro.
Speaking of spring classics and snapshots… my favorite from last year. SPRING CLASSICS ARE FOR BADASSES. I love this one: