…and I didn’t even know it. Man, he was one of my idols back in the day. Can’t believe I was on the same ride as him. He’s looking pretty well fed.
http://www.redmondcyclingclub.org/Photos/RAMROD-2004/Greg%20LeMond%20at%20RAMROD/index.html
It’s a hell of a tough ride RAMROD is.
Looks like a fat old man 
Basically like The Cannibal before he got started working out again.
I remember seeing and meeting Lemond in passing at Interbike just a few years after he had retired. He was introduced to me through another business contact as we stood in a large group and chatted. It struck me then, and this had to be 15 years ago, how old he looked. I often wondered after that meeting, if training/racing at that level can actually age you. For some, it does keep them looking younger and more youthful, but for others, perhaps it actually accelerates the aging process. Just a thought
Obviously he can still ride the bike! Great to see.
Fleck
That’s not Greg LeMond, that’s Mr. Dunkin’ Donuts 2003.
Nice pics, not a big fan of GL, only because of the Lance bashing…but still mad respek…I rode with Brian Walton the other day, these guys are still amazingly fast…
but they don’t starve themselves anymore, that’s for sure…
Please tell him for me how much I like my new LeMond OCLV/steel frame.
I hung out w/ Greg at the Texas A&M Windtunnel back in 1989 or so…I think it was just before he won the TdF that year w/ Boone Lennon’s thing called “aerobars”…a bunch of folks were there…Dan were you there? It was an incredible treat…and he was a STUD!!
HC
I entered the lottery for the ride again this year, so if I get in and he shows up I’ll be sure and pass that along…
I’ll assume the yellow band on his wrist is NOT a Livestrong band…
I always find it amazing that elite athletes, who have their bodies so under control, can let themselves go like that. You’d kind of figure that they’d form a habit of being fit and enjoy the benefits for life.
Merckx is also looking equally as well fed. I wonder what Lance will look like in 15 years.
Goes to show how the best of us can slip in a major way. Sobering ,eh?
If this is a symptom of burning out from the white-hot cauldrons they subjected themselves to in their primes, I comfort myself with the fact that I’m totally mediocre and therefore should “last” much longer than they.
Now excuse me while I get back to my bowl of ice cream…
look in the paper the weeks before the ride. A lot of people have to withdraw and sell off their spot. I have a friend who has bought his way in every year this way. The other option is to just go do the ride on a different day, same ride, less people.
I suppose I can go ahead and spill the beans that LeMond is planning a comeback (a la Dave Scott) to challenge Lance in Le Tour.
Of course, to be competitive he will have to upgrade to DA and get a helmet with more holes. And maybe one of those powertap gizmos.
At least he still shaves his legs.
Greg has paid his dues ten times over and has the insider’s view to “bash” Lance. You and I have not earned that. We should all come back in 15 years and post pics of ourselves and talk then.
thirsty, do you know if his bike was steel or ti?
cerveloguy, you got the newer version of the Zurich? I got a zurich the last year it was all steel (cept for fork), mebbe 03. Then they went with that “spline” combo-material route that everyone is doing now. Curious as to whether or not there really is a noticeable difference when materials are combined. (don’t mean to hijack thread with discussion on materials).
I pretty much enter the lottery and if I don’t get in then I am fine with that. It’s nice that it’s on a week day so there is hardly any traffic. I wouldn’t take a day off work to go do it by myself, and no way I would do that ride on a weekend, I’d be sucking exhaust fumes all the way up to Paradise no doubt. It’ll be a good training day for IM Canada if I do get in though. I did it last year after IM CdA and I was wimpering up to Cayuse, praying for a triple chainring on the front.
Was he fast?
No idea, I didn’t even know he was on the ride. If you look closely you can see the model is the “Maillot Jaune” which I assume would have been the newest model available at the time - July 2004. So whatever they were made of then.
“You and I have not earned that.”
So let me get this straight–you can ride your bike fast enough to earn the right to accuse athletes of cheating 10 years after you retire because you’re bitter that no one cared when you won and everyone cares when Lance wins?
If he had won a 3rd Tour would that have entitled him to ‘prima noctu’ with all American women?
nice stinkyhelmet, real nice.
No one earns the right to be an asshole, not even Greg LeMond. Not anyone. I love and respect all cyclists…all athletes that do what these guys do. He had an axe to grind and that is something I can’t respect.
bottomfeeder, put down that ice cream, you’re racing next weekend!
Hey stop bothering me! I’d rather be in denial…