Tour de France 1998

Hermy

Here's a few pics from 1998 - only wish I'd had a better camera.

pjmn

True - if you had a better camera you might have been able to get those photo's developed sooner....;)

Hermy

Too true pjmn.:p
Here's a few more.

Hermy

From the numbers I can make out:

64 Pascal Chanteur Casino

89 Jens Voigt GAN
65 Jacky Durand Casino
39 Stefano Zanini Mapei
97 Paul Van Hyfte Lotto
162 Francisco Benitez Vitalicio Seguros
174 Juan Jose de los Angeles Kelme

81 Chris Boardman GAN
16 Christophe Moreau Festina
184 Pascal Derame US Postal
195 Stefano Casagranda Riso Scotti
86 Eddy Seigneur GAN
115 Paolo Fornacciari Saeco

119 Mario Scirea Saeco
122 Frank Bouyer Française des Jeux
154 Oscar Pozzi Asics
178 Marcos Serrano Kelme
95 Andrei Teteriuk Lotto
182 Frankie Andreu US Postal

elduggo

excellent pics. Thanks for sharing

funnights74

Rolling back the years. I saw them on the Cork stage and it only seems like last week!! yikes.
Bit of trivia about this tour is that Pantani finished dead last in the Dublin prologue but won the tour, mainly because Ullrich's big ass couldn't get him over the mountains .

supersaintpats

some great pix, especially in Wicklow. tx for posting

velopeloton

Great photos, brings back lots of memories.

uberwolf

I can't get over how dated everything looks. Some of it may be down to the faded colours. But even the haircuts and fashion in the city centre shots.

levitronix

Road surface looks great !!

cycletheroad

great pics.....i got some good video cam of the whole show coming in to new ross and also outside waterford on the same day, all bunched together so the riders were gone passed in few seconds but nice to have all the same.

morana

great days!


lets have them back

feck sake lads

well done great pics did Chris boardman crash out of that yellow jersey.

uberwolf

he did, the following day

feck sake lads

i know i taped a lot of the tours down through the years must look to see if i have that tour taped.;)

funnights74

Let's not have them back
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Tour_de_France

elduggo

feck sake lads wrote: »

well done great pics did Chris boardman crash out of that yellow jersey.

if memory serves he was (ahem) taken out of it by none other than Johann Bruyneel on the road to Wexford.

brayblue24

Look at all that overtime....they were the days alright:D:D

The one time I was in an absolute win-win situation!!

dewindygap

Nice photos, hard to believe it was so long ago now.
Slightly off topic but....in the pic of the crowds sitting among the rocks, can anybody explain how the bike to the left of centre is parked. Looks like the front wheel is stuck in a crevice but still defies gravity. Perhaps it's just my eyesight failing.

Mr. Presentable

Thanks for the pics.

Notice how the weather was cold in summer even way back then.

Junior

elduggo wrote: »

if memory serves he was (ahem) taken out of it by none other than Johann Bruyneel on the road to Wexford.

Nope, he smacked into a wall just outside Youghal coming off the N25 as it was then. Broken collar bone, he was on the outside of the bunch and got squeez into the wall as the road narrowed and the bunch thinned.

pantani

these photos are great ,we were very lucky to have a stage start in enniscorthy that day boardman crashed out ,two great memories for me first seeing super mario cippolini and also watching marco pantani (r.i.p) cycling up castle hill with no hands whilst on a mobile phone!!gave me a love for cycling.