Re: [CR] Pic of the Day - Derby de Saint-G�rmain

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Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 07:25:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: "John Barry" <usazorro@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Pic of the Day - Derby de Saint-G�rmain
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <000e01c78e3b$4289f2e0$a617fbd1@Newhouse>


Interesting picture, and one that evokes a question that quite possibly reveals my ignorance, and which having the answer to will provide no practical application.

What would have happened in this sort of event if the stayer suffered a mechanical malfunction?

Thanks,

John Barry
Mechanicsburg, PA, USA


--- Aldo Ross wrote:


> Pic of the Day
> 4th May, 2007
>
> Sixty-nine Years Ago - The Derby of Saint-Gérmain
>
> Drafting behind his "entrainer", Charles Pélissier
> rides towards
> victory in the rainy 1938 edition of the Derby de
> Saint Gérmain. 285
> kms covered in 6 hrs 25 mins 3 secs behind these
> lightly-powered
> cyclomoteurs, here ridden by the ancient stayer
> racer René Maronnier.
> >From "Le Miroir des Sports" No.1001, 3 May 1938.
>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/aldoross/pd/DdeSG.JPG.html
>
> Aldo Ross
> Middletown, Ohio, USA
>
>
> J.M. "Aldo" Ross
> Blackboard Monitor
> Mrs. Edwards' 5th-Grade Class
> Creekview Elementary School, 1972-1973
>
>
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