Vintage Cycling Photographs

[Irondan]

The famous Tour winner Lucien Petit-Breton (1907 and 1908).

 

[Irondan]

Leon Georget. 1908, Dec. 2.

 

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Jul 1,1903: Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.

 

[Irondan]

Remembering the Tour de France riders who were killed in WWI.

 

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Jul 1,1903: Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.

 

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A post-WW2 Ruin and a makeshift bridge during TdF, 1949!

 

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The cyclist Veneto Ottavio Bottecchia ranked 2nd at the Tour de France in 1923 .......

 

[Irondan]

Ottavio Botteachia

 

[Irondan]

1922 Giro d’ Italia

 

[Irondan]

The Stelvio Pass, Giro 1965.

 

[Irondan]

A picturesque image of a couple riding an impressively sized tandem (and a man with an impressively sized moustache) in Stockholm.

 

[Irondan]

Cruising in Berlin … c.1931

 

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[Irondan]

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, co-editor of the first two collections of Emily Dickinson’s poems, was a man of astonishingly varied talents and accomplishments. A lifelong radical, he was an outspoken abolitionist, advocate of women’s rights, and founder of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. During the Civil War, he served as commander of the first Union regiment of freed African American soldiers.

 

[Irondan]

Long Distance Cyclist, G.E.B. Timewell, circa 1885.

 

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Gentleman on Velocipede

 

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Cheers

 

[Shrely]

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