There are plenty of famous cycling imagaes shared (mostly) on social media daily. We all know them very well. But do you know who are those cyclists on the picture? It’s a more trickier question, isn’t it. Many (but of course not all) of them weren’t successful or famous in their own days, only our strange time made them kind of cycling celebrities.
Léon Valloton and Alfons Lauwers
(1911)
Robert Jacquinot
(Tour de France 1922)
Eating pasta at Giro d’Italia 1966
Of course , the cyclists on this picture aren’t no name riders. All four men were Giro d’Itali winners a least once. Gianni Motta (1966), Vittorio Adorni (1965), Jacques Anquetil (1960, 1964) and Felice Gimondi (1967, 1969, 1976)
Henri Colle and Charles Parel
Although it seems a bit odd nowadays, it was not unusual, but perfectly normal during the first decade of road cycling races, that cyclists refreshed themselves in a tavern. In fact, in the early days of road cycling cafés and taverns were the checkpoints of Tour de France in the countryside.
(Tour de France 1921)
Vito Taccone and Fernando Manzaneque
