Quote Originally Posted by daz h View Post
Have to mention a birthday today. Bernard hinault. One of the greatest road men ever.
Apart from eddy I don't think anyone bossed the peloton like he did. Robert millar once said , 95 per cent of the riders are beaten before we even start the race such was the power that the badger had. If anyone tried to take that power away he just use to start hammering on the front for a few miles and they always cracked.
What a rider
Whenever I moaned about my bike as a youngster people used to tell me Hinault raced on his baker boy's delivery bike and still won.