Judging from the pictures I've seen, in the event of a mechanical problem with your Derny, you'd draft behind another rider until your Derny was repaired.
Aldo Ross
Middletown, OH, USA
> Interesting picture, and one that evokes a question
> that quite possibly reveals my ignorance, and which
> having the answer to will provide no practical
> application.
>
> What would have happened in this sort of event if the
> stayer suffered a mechanical malfunction?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Barry
> Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
>
>
> --- Aldo Ross <aldoross4@siscom.net> wrote:
>
>> Pic of the Day
>> 4th May, 2007
>>
>> Sixty-nine Years Ago - The Derby of Saint-Gérmain
>>
>> Drafting behind his "entrainer", Charles Pélissier
>> rides towards
>> victory in the rainy 1938 edition of the Derby de
>> Saint Gérmain. 285
>> kms covered in 6 hrs 25 mins 3 secs behind these
>> lightly-powered
>> cyclomoteurs, here ridden by the ancient stayer
>> racer René Maronnier.
>> >From "Le Miroir des Sports" No.1001, 3 May 1938.
>>
>>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/
>>
>> Aldo Ross
>> Middletown, Ohio, USA