Pic of the Day 13 January, 2008
Critérium des Comingmen, 1930
The field makes their way around the "Gendarme" turn during the 1930 Critérium des Comingmen (for amateurs and independents) on the Montlhéry autodrome. At the front - three riders from the C.V.D. control the pace. Note the fat tubulars, mix of single (front) and double brakes, interesting assortment of cycling caps, black Basque berets, and maybe even a leather hairnet on the rider at the extreme left of picture... something strange looking about his handlebars, too - do they look bent? And not a waterbottle in site for this 100 km event!
After crashing during the first lap, "Stade Français" rider L. Krauss
chased for one lap before regaining the peloton. Despite his fall and
chase, he would recover enough to take 1st place in the final sprint.
>From "Match l'Intran" No.212, 30 September 1930.
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Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio, Etats-Unis