Brandon Ives wrote:
>
> For all you folks who want me to define why I think things before 1960
> are "classic." read Richard Sachs post again. It's damn close to my
> feelings too, I just think it happened ten years early. Also alot of
> people are saying it's in the racing heyday, I agree. The racing heyday
> for the rest of the world (aka Europe) was in the 50's.
Yes, the Coppi-Bartali rivalry... but you have left out Merckx!!! late-60s and early 70s, and the 80s with Hinault... jeeze, what about Girardengo in the 20s, and... yikes... Gregie, and Anquetil...
Euro-racing heyday??????
Chuck Schmidt