[CR]Pic of the Day - 76 years ago today - Un Touriste Bulgare

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From: "Aldo Ross" <aldoross4@siscom.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 23:00:23 -0500
Subject: [CR]Pic of the Day - 76 years ago today - Un Touriste Bulgare

Pic of the Day 19 March, 2006

76 Years Ago Today - Un Touriste Bulgare

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/album17/Un_Touriste_Bulgare?full=1

"A young student from Bulgaria, Georg Tscherdaklieff, age 24, is currently on his way to achieving an exploit worthy of any professional cyclist. Starting on the first day of February, in Prague, he plans to complete a lap of Europe, riding 200 kms per day. His itinerary includes: Prague, Berlin, Stuttgart, Strasbourg, Nancy, Paris, Bordeaux, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Naples, Venice, Szedeldin, Budapest, and Sofia. During his journey through Paris, he was invited to help start the riders at the Paris 6-Day. While there he spoke of how he suffered in the horribly cold weather in Berlin, with temps as low as -25C (-13F). Tscherdaklieff expects to reach the capital of Bulgaria (Sofia) before the end of May, completing a journey of 18,000kms (10,980 miles) in about 100 days."
>From "Le Miroir des Sports" No.474/810, 19 March 1929. I hope he made it.

Also in this issue: sometimes an copy of "Le Miroir des Sports" or "Match l'Intan" is so full of great pictures, I wish I could post it in it's entirety. This issue of "LMdS" included the following items:

Foucaux wins the French Cyclocross Championship, http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/album17/Foucaux?full=1

Dervaƫs wins the Tour of Flanders, http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/album17/Devrais_wins_the_Tour_of_Flande rs?full=1

Moto racing in South Africa, http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/album17/Motorcycle_racing_in_South_Afri ca

Henry Segrave's Land Speed Record (231.36 MPH), http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/album17/Segraves_Golden_Arrow?full=1

Charles Lindbergh's first plane crash, with his wife as passenger, due to a wheel falling off his Travel Air 6000B during their honeymoon in Mexico, http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/album17/Lindberghs_First_Plane_Crash?fu ll=1

a cycling cartoon by R.E.D., http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/album17/Cartoon_by_RED?full=1

and Giorgetti/Debaets win the New York 6-Day at Madison Square, http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/album17/NY6?full=1

What an issue!

Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio