> Le Grevès leads a nearly perfect echelon on
> the way from St.Etienne to Avignon. Paris-Nice,
> 1936.
>
> >From "Match l'Intran" N.506, 24 March 1936.
>
>
>http://www.birfield.com/nuke/modules/gallery/album17/ParisNicestg3
Aldo, I love all the photos you've posted so please do not be offended by this correction. An echelon isa pace line formation in which the riders are staggered diagonally across the road. You set this formation up when the paceline encounters side winds. It's one reason side winds are so dangerous, tactically. Typically, an array of echelons is organized, one behind the other. (I.e. the road isn't wide enough for an echelon comprising more than say 18 riders.) Anyway, you need to allow a gap between the individual echelons and that gap provides a situation in which the first echelon can break away. Either Paul Sherwen or Bob Roll gave a superficial explanation of this during one of the early Tour stages. Liggett may have tried to augment the explanation but, don't you know, he must have been speaking that special dialect only he understands. Best regards, Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (and always in that second echelon when the winds arrive)
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