Regarding the 81 Boston-Mavic team. There were some well known riders in this team. Roger De Cnijf 79 Tour of Spain stage winner, Alain Meslet 1976 GP du Midi Libre and 77 Tour de France stage winner, Jan Nevers who was only a promising youngster then but who later had a Tour de France and tour of Switzerland stage win. Think I am right in saying that only three Bostons failed to finish this tour: Marc Goosens, Jan Nevens and Benny Vermulen. Wasn't the Boston outfit the first to be equipped with Mavic in the peleton? Mick Butler Hunts UK.
" <faro@cistron.nl> wrote:
> My take on this is that Boston is just the name of
> the sponsor: 'Frigo
> Boston' (refridgerators Boston). I did some
> extensive googling on this,
> couldn't find anything relevant.
> If the frames were just labelled with the sponsor's
> name, who build
> them? At the time there were many small and bigger
> framebuilders in
> Belgium. Boston-Mavic was a small team, only Van
> Impe and maybe Willy
> Teirlinck were well-known riders. So the frames
> could have been locally
> build, maybe because the team couldn't get a big
> name in cycling to
> supply the bikes.
>
> The mystery continues; are there no Belgian list
> members?
>
> Freek Faro
> Rotterdam Netherlands
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
> [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org]
> Namens Jerome &
> Elizabeth Moos
> Verzonden: dinsdag 2 augustus 2005 14:09
> Aan: Aldo Ross; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [CR]Pic(s) of the Day 8/01/05
>
> Great pics Aldo, and it does indeed say Boston on
> the tubes. Now the
> question is, is that our own Bill Boston? And if
> so, would that be the
> first appearance of an American frame marked as such
> in the TdF? Or
> would that distinction belong to the "Huffys" of
> 7-11?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
>
> Aldo Ross <aldoross4@siscom.net> wrote:
> Pic(s) of the Day
> 1st August, 2005
>
> Lucien Van Impe Photo Album
>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/
>
> Aldo Ross
> BlueBall, Ohio
>
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Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.
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