Vintage Cycling Photographs

[Bull]

Post your favourite vintage cycling photographs here.

To start with, here is my favourite of Fausto Coppi.

 

[kingjr]

 

[Bull]

Nice one of Didi. Here's one of Rudi.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Legend.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Angel of the Mountains.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Philippe Thys on his way to winning on the Aubisque.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Eugene Christophe in the 1920 Tour ultimately had to drop out.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Looking at these again, I don't want to ever again hear a rider say "this climb/stage is too hard for the riders." I mean, seriously? These old guys rode over passes of dirt and gravel, often in deplorable conditions, and roads on the flat lands not much better, with many of them cobbled.

 

[kingjr]

Re:

Looking at these again, I don't want to ever again hear a rider say "this climb/stage is too hard for the riders." I mean, seriously? These old guys rode over passes of dirt and gravel, often in deplorable conditions, and roads on the flat lands not much better, with many of them cobbled.

Yeah and they said the same thing then.

 

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[Bull]

Reg Harris

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Oscar Egg.

 

[Irondan]

I'm surprised we don't already have a thread like this one?

Instant classic!

 

[StyrbjornSterki]

Re:

Looking at these again, I don't want to ever again hear a rider say "this climb/stage is too hard for the riders." I mean, seriously? These old guys rode over passes of dirt and gravel, often in deplorable conditions, and roads on the flat lands not much better, with many of them cobbled.

The first stage of the first TdF went from Paris to Lyon, a distance of 467 km (and the cycling short had yet to be invented). HdG forbade derailleurs until 1937 and the only carbon most of those guys ever touched was when they licked the point of a pencil.

 

[Archibald]

Re:

Looking at these again, I don't want to ever again hear a rider say "this climb/stage is too hard for the riders." I mean, seriously? These old guys rode over passes of dirt and gravel, often in deplorable conditions, and roads on the flat lands not much better, with many of them cobbled.

You forgot descending down those same 'roads' on the old-style brakes and tyres...

 

[blutto]

Cheers

 

[Irondan]

Tour de France 1911. 5^Tappa, 10 luglio. Chamonix > Grenoble.

Col du Galibier. Émile Georget (1881-1960) First to pass the summit.

 

[blutto]

Cheers

 

[Irondan]

Tour de France 1919 - 6th stage (Bayonne - Luchon)

 

[blutto]

Cheers

 

[Irondan]

Victor Lenears, TdF, 1924

 

[Irondan]

Tour de France 1922. Gaston Degy (1890-1964)

 

[blutto]

....this ain't vintage but it is my fave....and the end of my attempt to paint the General part of the forum all blutto ( yeah I lost my mind for a few moments there )....nobody finishes like Oscar !....and he could be vintage as he has retired eh....

Cheers

 

[Irondan]

Tour de France 1922 - Ottavio Bottecchia

Here's some interesting reading... http://velo-orange.blogspot.com/2006/05/mysterious-death-of-ottavio-bottechia.html

 

[Irondan]

The Algerian Abdel-Kader Zaaf drank two bottles of wine during the 1950 Tour de France. He fell asleep under a tree. When he woke up he got on his bike again but proceeded to ride the wrong way on the course.