Showing posts with label french cyclist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label french cyclist. Show all posts

Monday, 20 December 2010

2003 Alpe D Huez.....Mayo and the boys....

Who's the idiot in the Mambo shirt and bleached hair ...?
It was about 32 degs and we walked 5 miles to this position
Tour de France 100 Centenary


                                        
Ivan Mayo 
 2003 Tour de France, when he won this stage up Alpe d'Huez. He finished the Tour sixth.


Jan Ullrich


Look into my eyes... !!!    David Miller



As the winner goes by....

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Louison Bobet - Pattercake, pattercake boulangers fils




Louison turning his hand to bakery


Born  above his father's baker's shop in the rue de Montfort, Saint-Méen-le-Grand, near Rennes, became Brittanys table tennis champion before taking up cycling seriously also  delivered messages on his bike for the French Resistance during the German occupation..


Ping Pong


I wonder if he rode a Lucifer ?






Friday, 3 December 2010

Jacques Anquetil - Monsieur Chrono



......in the scene climbing the D'Izoard


T Shirt logo



...I was impressed by the way girls were attracted to my friend Dieulois because he had become a coureur cycliste ... so I gave up my first choice - running - and joined the club as well."




Fancy a beer ?