[CR]Now: Scurvy Was: Pic of the Day - Stayer's Provisions

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From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:05:45 -0700
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]Now: Scurvy Was: Pic of the Day - Stayer's Provisions

It's to fight off scurvy on those long voyages on the velodrome that the stayers embarked on.

Chuck "take yer vitamins" Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

Matthew Bowne wrote:
> Can anyone explain the lemon halves to this twenty-something "newbie"?
> -Matthew Bowne
> Brooklyn, New York
>
>
>> From: "Aldo Ross" <aldoross4@siscom.net>
>> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>> Subject: [CR]Pic of the Day - Stayer's Provisions
>> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:56:57 -0400
>>
>> Pic of the Day
>> 23 August 2006
>>
>> Stayer's Provisions:
>>
>> http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/aldoross/pd/citron.JPG.html
>>
>> Lemon halves on a string, and tasty tidbits attached to the stem and
>> bars with rubber bands. The rider's name - Henri Lemoine. From
>> "Miroir
>> Sprint" No.11, 6 August 1946.
>>
>> Aldo Ross
>> Middletown, Ohio