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The 19th stage of Tour de France 1928 was a memorable day. Race leader Nicolas Frantz broke his bicycle’s frame with 100 km to go. He had to ride the left of the stage on an undersized female bike.
Fortunately, Frantz, who was the winner of the previous edition, had already an advantage of 1 hour 15 minutes and 7 seconds ahead of the second placed Andre Leducq and almost one an a half hour ahead of Maurice de Waele. Luckily, both of them were Frantz’s teammates in the Alcyon team. (Don’t forget, the system of national teams racing at the Tour de France started only in 1930.)
Although Frantz lost 38 minutes that day, he still led the general classification with 47 minutes and 31 seconds. No wonder he and Leducq were in good mood.
This was the year, when Frantz wore the yellow jersey from the beginning to the end of the race.