Wiens Wins #5 in Record Time, Landis 2nd

, , , | UltraRob | Saturday, August 11th, 2007 at 4:05 pm

Updated: Wiens won again in 2008 and Lance Armstrong was 2nd

Unofficial 2007 Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Results

Dave Wiens and Floyd Landis Chat Before Their Big Face-Off

Dave Wiens and Floyd Landis Chat Before Their Big Face-Off

The pack rolls out at the 2007 Leadville 100

The pack rolls out at the 2007 Leadville 100

Dave Wiens Descending Powerline at the Leadville 100

Dave Wiens Descending Powerline at the Leadville 100

Floyd Landis Descending Powerline at the Leadville 100

Floyd Landis Descending Powerline at the Leadville 100

Dave Wiens at the Bottom of the Columbine Climb at the Leadville 100

Dave Wiens at the Bottom of the Columbine Climb at the Leadville 100

Dave Wiens and Floyd Landis After Columbine Climb at the Leadville 100

Dave Wiens and Floyd Landis After Columbine Climb at the Leadville 100

Dave Wiens at Water Crossing at Bottom of the Powerline

Dave Wiens at Water Crossing at Bottom of the Powerline

Landis Thinks He Can Ride the Water Crossing at the Bottom of the Powerline

Landis Thinks He Can Ride the Water Crossing at the Bottom of the Powerline

Landis Finds He Can't Ride the Water Crossing and is a Few Seconds Slower than Wiens

Landis Finds He Can’t Ride the Water Crossing and is a Few Seconds Slower than Wiens

Dave Wiens Wins Leadville 100 in Record Time

Dave Wiens Wins Leadville 100 in Record Time

Wiens' Time Was 6:58:46.  I Was a Few Seconds Slow Taking the Picture

Wiens’ Time Was 6:58:46. I Was a Few Seconds Slow Taking the Picture

Landis Comes in 2nd at the Leadville 100

Landis Comes in 2nd at the Leadville 100

Landis' Time Was 7:00:30.  I Was a Few Seconds Slow Taking the Picture

Landis’ Time Was 7:00:30. I Was a Few Seconds Slow Taking the Picture

Landis Left More Than Just His Energy on the Course

Landis Left More Than Just His Energy on the Course

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12 responses to “Wiens Wins #5 in Record Time, Landis 2nd”

  1. tbv says:

    Rob, thanks for the coverage and Pix! I’ve used some of them in the TBV report — let me know if this is a problem.

    TBV

  2. llamoure says:

    Hey Rob,

    Was the crowd supportive of Floyd, or did they Boo?

    Lou

  3. Anonymous says:

    The crowd was very supportive and Floyd was very generous with his time after the race by staying, talking and standing for pictures

  4. HEATH says:

    Thanks, looking forward to seeing more pics. I used some on my blog… Hope ok. Yes I gave you credit & linked to your blog. thks. cheers.

  5. UltraRob says:

    Lou,

    There was a crowd in fron of Landis before the start. They had stretched snow fencing across which they’ve never done before. Landis was very nice and calmly signed autographs up until a couple minutes before start and the organizer made everybody get out of the way. I didn’t hear anything negative about him.

    Out on the course while Wiens and Landis were together, there was a lot of people really rooting for Dave to win. There never was any sense of anything negative toward Landis. It just was that Dave has won the last 4 years. He’s from Colorado and has been part of the mountain bike race community for as long as I can remember.

    At the finish, I think pretty much everybody was happy Dave had won but there was also a lot of cheering as Landis came up to the line.

  6. cjenjr says:

    In looking at your pictures – especially the one of Landis crossing the water – it appears that Floyd was wearing road shoes and using Speedplay X1/Zero pedals. Did you, or anyone one around you, also notice this? Seems like a crazy choice for a 100 mile off-road event.

    Only curious!

  7. UltraRob says:

    Jeremy,

    I was too focused on taking pictures to notice the road shoes. Even walking across the plank at the creek crossing, they didn’t seem to be problem. I didn’t hear anybody around me during the race say anything about the shoes either but people have discussing it on the LT100 list since then.

    Daniel,

    Thanks for the info about the bike. Are you able to reveal what happened to his bike?

  8. Daniel says:

    I built Floyd’s race bike and originally he had xtr pedals but he must have switched them at the race. Some other technical nuggets for this bike are the LX front der, generic Easton aluminum stem with no grade such as ea50 or ea70 leading me to believe it is probably an ea30, and the Bontrager Select aluminum riser bar. Why did Floyd ride these parts? That was all we had in stock at the shop I work at that we could get on zero notice. Something happened to his original bike and we had to put this together and overnight it to him just a couple of days before the race.

  9. Daniel says:

    I don’t know what happened to his other bike, sorry.

  10. Jon says:

    Rob,
    Thank you for sharing! Great photographs. They will remain on my blogspot for others to see forever.
    Velo Vortmax

  11. […] Update: Lance didn’t race but Floyd Landis finished 2nd […]

  12. […] the race. With the good course conditions and by working together they shattered the course record Wiens set in 2007 when Floyd Landis raced. Lance Armstrong and David Wiens talking at the pre-race meeting. Closer view of Lance […]

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