Notice the Japanese collector in the background eyeing his bike.
ken denny Boston
>From: "Aldo Ross" <swampmtn@siscom.net>
>To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: [CR]today's pic
>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:19:17 -0500
>
>Roger Riviere at the 1960 Tour de France.
>
>http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1225372&a=11279364
>
>Bike is fully chromed, equipped with Campagnolo "Record" gruppo, including
>151bcd crankset, Gran Sport r der, Record f der. Red lettering on the down
>tube (would this bike be a "Geminiani"?).
>
>The brakes are Universal "Extra", but the brake levers appear to be MAFAC
>with half hoods???
>
>The bottle cage (Vit?) has tape wrapped into a roll at the top front.
>
>Within a few days of this picture, Riviere would crash on the descent of
>the Perjuret, leaving him permanently paralyzed.
>
>Aldo Ross