Eddy Merckx - La Course en Tete (Part 2/8)

La Course En Tete - Head Of the Field (1974) follows Belgium cycling star Eddy Merckx at the peak of his career through Europe's best races

The Cannibal Belgian superstar, Eddy Merckx, is arguably the greatest cyclist the world has ever known. His dominating career through the 1970s continues to overshadow the achievements of today's bicycling supermen. Merckx won just about every race that was worth winning - including seven victories in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, three wins in Paris-Roubaix, and two victories in the Tour of Flanders. He was a World Champion no less than three times and won both the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France an incredible five times each! Merckx's amazing Hour Record ride in 1972 stood for 14 years.

This film shows his day to day life of training and racing
Enjoy

Part
1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpEPeU-bdxw
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhQR1vrjUfM
3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp-RjpW_Mdk
4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxccHY_BIkk
5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt5KX__G778
6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euyHFP0heBA
7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMIhCjAbaNw
8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0v2qcJcaX0

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[zaoprince]

Oh mah god...they eat delicious stuff during races.

[Fnordicus]

@johnnyrebel16 would you prefer fast cuts and an overdramatic voiceover? i found it to be perfectly fitting for a documentary on the prophet

[35BRE]

If i ever had a fantasy of how it would be to be a bike racer... it would have looked just like this... tears... really.

[johnnyrebel16]

wonderful footage, but it seems like it wasn't really edited?

[livibam]

amazing footage..... :)

[ghandee]

@cleekmaker00

and when bicycle was about the rider, the bike, the maker. Not all these pedaling bank advertisements of today

[cleekmaker00]

6:20 - Back to a time when bicycle racers ate REAL food... not the high tech gel, goo, bar type rabbit snacks they eat today!

This is a classic video, showing the way it USED to be done.

[PInk77W1]

@tommy11148 NICE, i didnt even know about Inter. cycle sport. mag. until i was about 21yrs old. i found a shop that sold old used ones. i bought about 20 of them and read them over and over. memories. thx.

[tommy11148]

Mate, I still have a pair of those shoes in the closet- old style blocks and all. Will never wear them again, but sometimes when I see them, it brings back memories of a classic era. When we were kids growing up with cycling we had to wait 2 or 3 months for the latest edition of International Cycle Sport to arrive at the local bike shop see which of our heroes had won the classics of Europe. For me - Italian hand made frames, campagnolo, and Eddy - nothing will ever come close!!

[PInk77W1]

those adidas shoes he is wearing. in 1975 in my little town, cycling was basically none existent. but my local sporting goods store had a pair of those shoes on display. i would go there day after day just to look at them, like going to a shrine!!!! i had no money, i had no racing bike, i was 14yrs old. Now all these years later, i own no car and ride bikes only... thx Eddy