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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:45:57 -0800
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From: "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] =?iso-8859-1?q?Pic_of_the_Day_-_1933_Crit=E9rium_National_d_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=27Hiver__de_Demi-Fond?=


>1933 Critérium National d'Hiver de Demi-Fond
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>http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/aldoross/pd/CNdH33.JPG.html
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Comparing this 1933 photo with the image from the mid-1950 in "The Competition Bicycle," it is amazing how similar everything looks. The bikes appear to be Bastides, just like they were in the 1950s. (Bastide had closed his shop in 1936, but stayers continued to ride old Bastides.)

You can see the fork crown of the first and second bikes clearly, and they look the same as the newer Bastide bike in "The Competition Bicycle." The BSA chainrings are like on the older (1920s) stayer in our book, but the frames are the more modern 1930s ones. The leather helmets are the same, too, but the cap of the guy holding up the first rider firmly puts the photo in the pre-war times, doesn't it?

Jan Heine
Editor
Bicycle Quarterly
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Seattle WA 98122
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