Jens Voigt: Before the curtain drops

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[Pieterg]

My Hero!!

[FrancoisC]

Forget Eddy, Fausto, Jacques, Bernard and Miguel.

Jens Voigt is the greatest racing cyclist there ever was - because he embodies everything that we all love about cycling. And he does it with a kind word and a smile.

We are going to miss you Big Jens, thanks for all the breakaways!

[carbon29er]

He is a shameless self promoter that from the dark days of cycling, thank goodness he has had the sense to retire, even if it means one more effort to remain in focus as he attempts the hour record.

 

After Basso was kicked out of CSC before the 2006 TDF Voigt has had nothing to ride for, other than his pointless, and ultimately futile, breakaways with the exception of TDF stage 13 in 2006 racing with no team leader and Giro Stage 18 in 2008.

 

2 stage wins from how many "legendary" breakaways? Luckily for him Trek have not had a GC contender since Big Tex so have put massive marketing support into Jens resulting in his Chuck Norris reputation.

 

And with Trek being an American brand, Phil and Paul on Versus pushed his exploits beyond their actual worth in order to appeal to the US market to keep their ratings up.  So much so that if Jens was in the break it was heroic whereas any other guy would almost be labelled as idiotic by PnP.  And where do we in SA take our commentary from? 

 

He was a great cyclist but he definitely would not rank in the top 50 of all time. Now he must take his retirement and stop promoting himself.

[Rocket-Boy]

He is a shameless self promoter that from the dark days of cycling, thank goodness he has had the sense to retire, even if it means one more effort to remain in focus as he attempts the hour record.

 

After Basso was kicked out of CSC before the 2006 TDF Voigt has had nothing to ride for, other than his pointless, and ultimately futile, breakaways with the exception of TDF stage 13 in 2006 racing with no team leader and Giro Stage 18 in 2008.

 

2 stage wins from how many "legendary" breakaways? Luckily for him Trek have not had a GC contender since Big Tex so have put massive marketing support into Jens resulting in his Chuck Norris reputation.

 

And with Trek being an American brand, Phil and Paul on Versus pushed his exploits beyond their actual worth in order to appeal to the US market to keep their ratings up.  So much so that if Jens was in the break it was heroic whereas any other guy would almost be labelled as idiotic by PnP.  And where do we in SA take our commentary from? 

 

He was a great cyclist but he definitely would not rank in the top 50 of all time. Now he must take his retirement and stop promoting himself.

I think you might be taking that a little far.

He has always been super strong and the breakaways were always required to cause upsets in the race pace.

What I found most amazing was that he was able to keep up with people half his age. No one has anything bad to say about his personality and he is well regarded as being a dedicated friendly rider.

[T-Bag68]

Would be great to see the Legend at "The Argus Cycle tour"

[capedutch]

Can the Cycle Tour Organisers please send him a personal invite to the 2015 event ???

[kosmonooit]

That's a bit harsh there 29'er ....

 

Besides PnP plugging him, he did win a stage in the Tour of Utah last year (or other American race) - heroic long solo breakaway, full gas, thats one reason why they are fond of him.

 

He is a character of note, albeit a slightly manic one.

[Ispeed_V]

What’s on Jens’ 60-minute playlist?

 

A: We asked him, and this is what he said:

 

Warmup:

•REO Speedwagon "Keep on loving you"

•Brian Adams "Summer of 69"

•Journey "Wheel in the sky"

•Air supply "Making Love out of Nothing at All“

•Metallica "Turn the page"

 

Hour Record:

•Republica "Ready to go"

•P.O.D. "Feel so alive"

•Metallica "One"

•AC/DC "Hells Bells"

•AC/DC "Highway to hell"

•Farmerboys "Here comes the pain"

•Ugly Kid Joe "Goddam Devil"

•AC/DC "Thunderstruck"

•Black Sabbath "Paranoid"

•Metallica “Frayed ends of sanity"

•Europe "Final Countdown"

 

Cooldown:

•Metallica "Nothing else matters"

•Cranberries "Zombie"

•Kansas "Dust in the wind"

•Air Supply "All out of love"

•Lita Ford/ Ozzy Osbourne "Close my eyes forever

[Cassie]

He is a shameless self promoter that from the dark days of cycling, thank goodness he has had the sense to retire, even if it means one more effort to remain in focus as he attempts the hour record.

 

After Basso was kicked out of CSC before the 2006 TDF Voigt has had nothing to ride for, other than his pointless, and ultimately futile, breakaways with the exception of TDF stage 13 in 2006 racing with no team leader and Giro Stage 18 in 2008.

 

2 stage wins from how many "legendary" breakaways? Luckily for him Trek have not had a GC contender since Big Tex so have put massive marketing support into Jens resulting in his Chuck Norris reputation.

 

And with Trek being an American brand, Phil and Paul on Versus pushed his exploits beyond their actual worth in order to appeal to the US market to keep their ratings up.  So much so that if Jens was in the break it was heroic whereas any other guy would almost be labelled as idiotic by PnP.  And where do we in SA take our commentary from? 

 

He was a great cyclist but he definitely would not rank in the top 50 of all time. Now he must take his retirement and stop promoting himself.

 

 

all of the above will be void IF he breaks the 1 hour record...

 

THEN HE"LL BE A LEGEND!!! :thumbup: