pricardo wrote:
Liggett keeps saying fastest ever
OK, I will change the title of this thread to "fastest".
here is what I saw on Wikipedia....but I thought Zabriskie went faster than Lemond:
Stage speeds[
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The fastest massed-start stage was in 1999 from Laval to Blois (194.5 km), won by
Mario Cipollini at 50.4 km/h.
[14] The fastest full-length time-trial is
Greg LeMond's Tour winning final time trial into Paris in 1989, (24.5 km) at 54.545 km/h.
[15] Chris Boardman rode faster during the 1994 prologue stage,
[16] Lille-Euralille (7.2 km), with 55.2 km/h.
[17] The fastest stage win was by the 2013 Orica GreenEDGE team in a team time-trial. It completed the 25 km time-trial at 57.7 km/h.
[18] The fastest climb of
Alpe d'Huez was by
Marco Pantani in
1997 Tour de France in 23.1 km/h.
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