Re: [CR]Pic of Day 7 May Jacques Marinelli

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To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 10:57:03 -0500
Subject: Re: [CR]Pic of Day 7 May Jacques Marinelli
From: <airart4@juno.com>


Thanks Aldo,

I enjoy looking at these photos and trying to determine equipment used. I was interested to see in your latest installment that the bike Marinelli is riding has wing nuts and not QRs. Weren't QRs available in 1949?

Mike Short, Austin TX.

On Fri, 7 May 2004 10:29:49 -0400 "Aldo Ross" <swampmtn@siscom.net> writes:
> Yahoo! won't give me access today (too much bandwidth use?) so I'm
> using "myimgs.com" for today's Pic of the Day:
>
> http://www.myimgs.com/data/aldoross/Marinelli.jpg
>
> Let me know if you have trouble reaching the picture.
>
> "Jacques Marinelli (France, racing for "Ile de France") attacks on
> the 4th stage of the 1949 Tour de France. "Petit Jacques" would
> wear the yellow jersey for stages five through ten, and finish third
> on G.C. behind Coppi and Bartali."
>
> Aldo Ross
> Blue Ball, Ohio
>
>
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