Is Octave Lapize the name behind the "Lapize" leather toe straps that I had? Any other info on what the "Lapize" company produced and when? Matthew Bowne Brooklyn, New York
>From: "Aldo Ross" <aldoross4@siscom.net>
>To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: [CR]Obscure cycling reference
>Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:57:20 -0400
>
>I was watching the special features portion on the DVD of Jean-Pierre
>Jeunet's "A Very Long Engagement" today and was surprised to see a
>cycling reference. In the deleted scene where the condemned soldiers
>start going over the top into no-man's land (I think it was Six-Soux)
>stops on the ladder and offers a small packet to another soldier, saying
>it's his tire patch, and that without it he couldn't have won the 1911
>Paris-Roubaix. In fact it was Octave Lapize who won that year, the
>third of his three consecutive wins in Roubaix. Lapize died July 14th,
>1917, during aerial combat over Pont-à-Mousson (Verdun).
>
>Aldo Ross
>Middletown, Ohio, USA