Great pic...shows an awkward race moment, slinging the musette bag (or having it catch on the toeclips), coasting, taking a tight corner with one hand on the bars, litter on the streets, ineffectual gendarmes.
It sure looks like Danneels has mudguards. Possible?
Warren Young Toronto
Aldo Ross wrote:
> Pic of the Day
> 23 April 2005
> Paris-Tours 1936
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> http://www.wooljersey.com/
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> Paris-Tours, 1936. Seems like just before a corner is an awkward place
> to locate the feeding station! The winning break of Jules Colaert
> (left), Fernand Mithouard (center background), and Gustave Danneels
> (right) passing through Vendôme. Danneels would go on to win from
> Mithouard and Colaert. From "Match l'Intan" No.512, 5 May 1936.
>
> Click on pic for much larger image.
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> More info at:
> http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/
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> Aldo Ross
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