Hello Norris, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and many thanks for all the interesting postings throughout the year. I hope the snow doesn't Settle to much in your part of the world. I was up your way last week delivering into Nelson and collecting from just outside Keighley the weather and scenery were wonderful. Just a little about the rider you mentioned. Jean ALAVOINE French Born 01/04/1888 in Roubaix, deceased 18/07/1943. Pro from 1909 to 1925. 29 victories. Second Bordeaux-Paris 1921. Third Bordeaux-Paris 1924.
--- Norris Lockley <norris@norrislockley.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
It featured our new T0d-F hero Alavoine who had just placed second in the Bordeaux-Paris endurance race. Unfortunately no year was mentioned.
Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.