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20-07.-2007, 10:45 AM
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colored cyclist
i just started road cycling and i wanna go pros...but when i join my local bike club i realised i was the only black guy there..... i was wondering, has there ever been professional black riders....other then major taylor
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20-07.-2007, 11:09 AM
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Re: colored cyclist
Sure, there are. While they are few, they are there.
Erik Saunders, who only recently retired from cycling rode as a domestic pro for many years. He has a web site, though it is a bit hard to decipher... www.eriksaunders.com There's also Rahsaan Bahati http://www.bahatiracing.com/ who is a current pro and rides for the relatively new team Rock Racing. I'm sure if you looked around you could find some more guys (and maybe women too) in the pro's and semi-pro's. Africa itself actually has some pretty exciting and competitive pro racing. OLN carries the Tour de Fasso - it happens very early in the season, before the spring classics and features the best of the African teams and riders. They are very good, very competitive riders. It would not be suprising if we begin to see some of these guys recruited to bigger continental teams someday. |
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20-07.-2007, 12:45 PM
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Re: colored cyclist
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thx alot..im hoping one day to see a few in the tour de france...maybe even myself..lol |
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20-07.-2007, 03:30 PM
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Re: colored cyclist
Rahsaan Bahati actually just won the CSC Invitational. Dude can ride.
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20-07.-2007, 04:53 PM
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Re: colored cyclist
Gregory Bauge is coloured!!!! He's the current world champion of olympic sprint and one of the best sprinting pistards of the world!!!!! (check google images... or any track section on a site as cyclingnews...)
Black people have exceptional white fibers... perhaps they've the best ones (as athletics shows), but cycling is not very diffused among them... |
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20-07.-2007, 06:30 PM
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Re: colored cyclist
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is that the guy from france?...also has there ever been on in the tour de france? |
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20-07.-2007, 09:56 PM
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Re: colored cyclist
Nono, he's only a pistard. He does not do road.
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21-07.-2007, 03:10 AM
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Re: colored cyclist
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Before anyone thinks a pistard is something naughty (it sounds like it ought to be in English  ) it means that he rides track! |
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21-07.-2007, 03:38 AM
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Re: colored cyclist
Plenty of black guys racing in the Caribbean at the moment. The teams from Guadaloupe are very strong as well as St Martin/St Maarten and Martinique. I'd expect to see some of their riders joining the pro ranks soon.
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21-07.-2007, 04:17 AM
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Re: colored cyclist
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Look up Marshall Taylor,a true pioneer of cycling.
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21-07.-2007, 04:27 AM
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Re: colored cyclist
nelson vails, scott berryman, a bunch of french bmx racers
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23-07.-2007, 09:18 AM
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Re: colored cyclist
If we're going by lack of "ethnic people" in a sport as a barometer for potential success, I think Tiger Woods shows you'll be winning all the grand tours in about 5 yrs time.
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30-07.-2007, 05:03 AM
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30-07.-2007, 05:38 AM
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Re: colored cyclist
You can't compare the two situation: we have a resistance cycling (climbing one) and a explosive cycling (flat races, track races). We do not have enough data to see what's better, since (for cultural reasons) there is still no diffusion of cycling through black people. Maybe in the future, if the same diffusion of cycling between white and black (as in the athletics) would be reached, we could say something.
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30-07.-2007, 05:43 AM
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