Re: [CR]Pic of the Day - Cornez etc.

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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 18:40:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Rafael Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Pic of the Day - Cornez etc.
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <000801c67d2c$f5f9ce20$6314fbd1@Newhouse>


I like the robes. Last year, I tried to wear something similar between a couple of races at Trexlertown, thinking I would be considered suave. Instead, I had to quickly change into something more mundane and uncomfortable. Mind you, much of the harassment came from guys wearing kilts between races!
      Cheers,
      Fred "tout comfort" Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)


--- Aldo Ross wrote:


> Pic of the Day
> 21 May, 2006
>
> Seventy-four Years Ago
> Cornez, Bulla, Honemann, etc.
>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/album17/Cornez_and_gang
>
> Some of the aces between events at the grand sports festival
> in Damazan,
> France, in 1932. Standing, from left to right: Willy
> Honemann (USA),
> Jean Maréchal (Fra), Avanti Martinelli (Ita), Roger Beaufrand
> (Fra),
> Armand Blanchonnet (Fra), Fernand Cornez (Fra); seated, Max
> Bulla
> (Austria) (left), and Lucien Michard (Fra) (right).
>
> I wonder if Cornez toeclips and toestraps are named for
> Fernand Cornez,
> like Christophe and Binda? And what about Bulla brakes? Are
> they named
> for Max Bulla?
>
> >From "Match l'Intran" No.298, 24 May 1932.
>
> Aldo Ross
> Middletown, Ohio
>
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