Pic of the Day 21 July, 2006 Seventy Years Ago
Magne Changes Gears
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Tour de France, 1936. Having just crested the Izoard climb a few moments after Sylvére Maes, Antonin Magne pauses to flip his rear wheel around in order to change his gear for the fast descent, assisted by mechanics, spectators, and a brace of French Mountain Troops.
Also shown - two images of the 1936 Tour negotiating narrow dirt roads
while passing through Sainte-Marie-De-Vars.
>From "Match l'Intran" No.525, 21 July 1936.
Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio