What do you suppose the lump is on the top tube of the first bike, between the seat lug and the saddle prop?
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----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Jan Heine <heine94@earthlink.net>
To: ternst <ternst1@cox.net>, Dave Porter
<frogeye@porterscustom.com>, 'Aldo Ross'
<aldoross4@siscom.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] Pic of the Day - 1933 Crit=e9rium National
d 'Hiver de Demi-Fond
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:45:57 -0800
> >1933 Crit=e9rium National d'Hiver de Demi-Fond
> >
>
> >http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/aldoross/pd/CNdH33.JP
> G.html >
> >
>
> 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
> 140 Lakeside Ave #C
> Seattle WA 98122
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