This era was that really blew cycling up in a GOOD BIG way. Lance got MILLIONS to ride. Without Lance we wouldnt have cycling as big as it is today. Johan Bruyneel groomed up Lance and got his best out of him. Everyone needs a JB in their life. ASO/Trek/Shimano/UCI/carbon bike tech etc etc would NOT be as big as they are today without Lance putting in the work and putting in the PED's so he could work and recover even harder. Lance Armstrong IS the cycling icon if we are looking at who motivated more humans to ride bikes than anyone. If you want the BEST EVER CYCLING TIPS AND BUYERS GUIDE then click this link below www.durianrider.com/products/durianrider-harley-johnstone

That opening clip with Lance cycling uphill at that pace and holding a conversation is so savage. Dope or no dope, dudes aerobic engine was insane.

Love or hate Lance I think he gave a lot of cancer sufferers hope, even though he doped he saved my bro's life as my bro fought his illness and came out the otherside and for that I thank him!

This is seriously one of the MOST SEEN Lance documentaries

He is still one of my great heroes. They may not have fought fair, but they fought evenly

Love him. I think it takes more then just ped’s to be this good. Guy had heart.

There's some thing about this generation of cycling thats awesome. I think its partly to do with kits and the equipment. If you look at all the bikes they weren't all this wanky carbon fibre SSL stuff. The advertising was shitty, messy, hectic and chaotic. Look at the Mercatone Uno kit, but the point I am making is this; it wasn't about the kit. Pantani did the fastest ever climb on alpe d'huez on a aluminium bike and the image of him in his bandana is more cemented in my memory than the homogenous group of cyclists you see now in the Peleton

I watch this in my room and mom comes in at 46:4

That's why you got the coldest channel Harley this shit gooo💯💯💯

RIDE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT 😂 GREAT VIDEO!

28:50 Lance: "I've got some spare EPO if thats of any use"

10:17 "it's the little things that makes the difference eh? good cake eh?" dopest cake ever

Lance will always be the greatest!

i f doping is everything, then dope me now so i can beat froom in the next tour de france. lance the greatest athlete ever

They went to Europe only to discover the extent and scale of doping on European teams.

Shows how much work is needed to be competitive. The training and tactics involved in winning was superhuman from Armstrong and his team. Doping was a necessity then otherwise you had no chance of even coming close to winning the tour. It was just one of many elements needed to be competitive, all equally important.

Oh brother... I fell for the bait.

he ate bananas...

"When the soup is good. All is good"

THE LAST KING 🤴

I think it's hilarious how they were on the witch-hunt for team USA, because they were pissed off that their own EPO-filled riders couldn't keep up! Hahaha!

He was just playing field. Lance is the greatest.

Great doco that shows an other perpective wich is going away and dedicating oneself for a sport that an athlete loves. However, professionals are pushed to the limit like pawns.$$$

Taking existing and easy to find content and republish it as clickbait, a new low of durian.....

Damn, I just watched this about a month ago and loved it......so I was hoping you were sharing one I hadn't seen yet!

I’m not a cyclist. I’m a runner and Lance Armstrong is still one of the biggest motivators for me when I run. His will to win is inspirational.

I loved your personal comments. Thanks for sharing.

Best doc you have never seen? This documentary has been available on KZfaq for years

I remember when many riders were excited to come to USPS because they had "The Best Training Programs". See Roberto Heras and Il Falco

Now sky has the newest training programmes. And Froome is just a natural talent. Once upon a time...

The best there is the best there was and the best there ever will be. Even playing field.

remember you still have to pedal, respect to lance

Soooo, weren't all of those guys of that era on the "gas"? Lance ran a legit team, he beat the South American and European punks that were doping with harder training and better doping. Literally beat them at their own game! Screw the haters. He played the game of the time and won. Alberto played the same game and is still racing.? Makes a sane educated person think????? How did the euro trash and South American thugs get away with it (slap on the wrist), while the Americans got pinned with life sentences. Again haters gona hate. Lance leveled the playing field with EPO. He kicked the shit out of Europe and South America with training and tactics! Dude is a leader and he is on the rise again! If I were euro trash teams that favored U23 people I would fear American teams that only hire Mature American riders.

Seeing this team wins it's a bittersweet feeling

I'm sorry but I was diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer in 1999 and he did nothing for me and finding out that he was the head person to bring EPO to his team and lied about it the whole time, he deserves no respect.

What you've missed are the wins that Cadel Evans should have had

awesome thanks for sharing - he is one of the most inspiring athletes for me

Durianrider you are the best!!

This was awesome to watch

Lance does not understand his condition. His DNA was cancerous. The drugs he took was for his disadvantage in having Cancer DNA, when other people or athletes didn't have cancer. If he didn't take the drugs how is it right he compete with Cancer DNA against others who didn't have cancer DNA in sports? In fact if he didn't take the drugs also named as medication, proves that Sports discriminates against people who have a disability. Athletes who don't have cancer and take these drugs, are the people who are doping to give a boost to their performance. Lance legitimately won the Tour de France, and is an incredible athlete who overcame the threat of death of Cancer. According to God, he is not disqualified and retains the Tour de France Wins in his career. God Bless Lance. God is the judge, not man. Congratulations. Show less

you're right dude. the 1930 tdf manual said, "the tour will not provide the riders with drugs." I mean that's about all they should be responsible for. The sponsors need to come back to the sport and just trust that the riders are being safe with their own bodies!

I love the quote at the beginning.

great, thanks for the upload

I completely agree with you that you could pick ANY competitive professional sport and most, if not all, are taking some kind of PEDs and even some college and high school kids are doing it because I know in high school some of my classmates certainly were but, it still doesn't make it right.

What do you think about lances upcoming court date in November? I personally think he's paid for his business and it's time to let it go. Awesome DOCUMENTARY!

Thanks for posting this, it was interesting.

You might hate him, but you just can refuse his ability to ride the bike! He is definitely in Top5 all time greatest cyclists.

How can you possibly have the rights to this documentary.? Copy rights obviously not an issue in your mind

I think I liked your comments at the end of the video a bit more than I cared for the documentary! Being from Texas and knowing how lance was on sports enhancement drugs since the late 90's and more importantly being vocal a bout it with everyone in my home town, I was casted as a crazy dude that was just hating on a fellow Texan, but the fact of the matter was that I was ashamed of being an American, not so much because of the doping, but because the lies and the amount of people that went down because of lance. I don't knock anyone for taking stuff, but what isn't cool is when you acuse others of why you're guilty of!!! Not the Texas way bruh. Anyway, I hope you read my ranting and reply, I could use some inspiration to get back on my bike and ride, I've gotten so unhealthy and fat over the last 24 months that if I don't do something soon My health will decline rapidly. Cheers m8

Doping is a vey bad thing, but a guy after 4 horas in a bike (climbing) and asks if he can go on, and the coach says you can because there is snow and asks again "in the sides", deserves to be called one of the greats!

Have not seen this. Great video!

Yes.... very good documentary! Insightful.... and I've seen them all... I thought.

para mi. el mejor de todos. !!!!

I was just wondering I heard there was a beat up lance Armstrong foundation. could someone link the particulars. I wanna read what they say.

Thanks for this vid man, I still think lance inspiring despite doping and this video is great

Cheater or not... The dedication to this sport that Lance had was simply mind blowing.

It’s sad that a guy with the determination and guts only a handful of people have in the world was crucified for doing something everyone else did. Lance still wins if everyone is clean. It’s ridiculous that none of the other riders who doped went through what he did

Sound needs to be remixed, speech levels need to be boosted to get over being drowned out by soundtrack. Ask Lance and Johann, they know all about boosters.

Lol! "I believe there is something new with U.S. Postal...They've adopted a European cycling culture."

oakley has come along way since then lol

The King

Lance Armstrong is 🐐🇺🇸

Heavy rotation this video ten year ago😭

Lance is still a legend , if he did not win it , then who did ?

That was an epic Doc !

Lance was an amazing rider juice or no juice. When your cycling at that level or doing any sport at the level he was doing it it’s only taking a little bit off doing illegal substances. Everywhere out there is illegals substances, they just made an example out of Lance, which is sad.

Great video bud.

18:00 michel wuyts belgian commentator! lovely

Thanks for the video Harley..

I'm training for the tour.... Practicing recording on my new TV...

I remember Road to Paris. It was great watching it back then and is great watching it now. Good call Durian. Brought back awesome memories. Blue train baby!!!!!

The Road to Paris. its a fraud, stop making money from other's fraudulent YT posts. Buy into to this or butt out, otherwise continue to make yourself look foolish #indipac.

Must not be very safe when the car driver (Brunyeel) is watching the race from tv-screen. I wonder if they still do that.

I own it on dvd and watch it twice daily!!!

+Durianrider Hey DR. Did you or anyone else spot the infamous "motorman" on his red scooter at 45:56 ? Wonder whose decision it was to edit in that scene...

45:56 The infamous "moto-man" ?

Seen it before Iove it. Getting it done

best video mate chapeau

Watching in 2019

I had added this vidoes link on my bookmarks bar to watch later... now i stubled upon it and it already started in like 5 mins.. but then at 52:19 when durian came up i was like what the fuck just hapened.

I know people were turned off by the reported bullying aspect, that and being such a winner, but damn that man trained himself to the limit and did all he had to do to prepare his body and mind to win. The use of PEDs is nothing like the so called mechanical doping or what ever you want to call that crap. All those stripped of their titles from that area should be reinstated and the UCI needs to pulled down their nose and move on.

So was this documentary made during the comeback era (Astana) or was it made during the period of utter domination, like mega epo, doped to the gills Lance era?

Live Strong

They were all on dope so Lance was still a machine.

I seen this already but it was good.

LA said Eddy Merckx is rhe 🐐 ♑️

He'll be writing checks to Landis soon.

Still watching it... I think I just saw Moto man at 46 min mark of the film... lol

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"Shoot!, second AGAIN....Funny how that always happens...and I avoided an automatic drug test by dragging my ass in the sprint finish." -L. Armstrong. There is a strategy in pro sports; The strategy of avoiding drug testing and a positive test.

One hell of 😢a rider

everyone on that vitamin E, T, C and many more!

@DurianRider where did you find thisin' here gem

Again you're right when everything came out, it was entire teams doping. The peloton KNEW what was going on, & so many at the front or saved sprinters were juicing. I don't think they should have taken his titles, disgraced him AND a life ban? That's crazy it doesn't match the crime especially when we SEE superhuman ability across teams w/different athletes.

I've heard champion athletes in every pro sport say pretty much this thing. The rules of the sport are not the written rules of the sport. The rules are what you can get away with. Any competitor who can't get that through there heads will not be a winner. And if they can't they should go home to mommy.

Wow nice doco

Training in this weather Johan and lots of EPO wins Le Tour de France.

i wonder id David Walsh has watched this He wrote "The armstrong lie"

Seriously juice/steroids make sports all around better, you get to see some of the best performances, whether it be baseball (barry bonds, mcguire) or cycling (lance). Ratings are the highest when they are around the sports tend to be at their peak. And it is motivation for everyone watching.

Harley, for some reason I feel you would enjoy watching a recent interview with a global banking whistleblower by the name of Ronald Bernard. Life at the top is in many ways the same in banking as it is in sport. I'm sure you'd see the likenesses if you watch the interview.