famous smoking cyclists picture

Who were the smoking cyclists at Tour de France 1927

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The famous picture of the smoking cyclists at Tour de France 1927

The smoking cyclists of Tour de France 1927 is one of the most famous vintage cycling images from the heydays of road cycling races. It’s popular because  it conveys a certain aspect of the many differences between our time and the life hundred years ago. The dissonance between our 21st-centurian knowledge that smoking is very … Read more

Famous vintage cycling image of the day: smoking cyclists (Tour de France 1927)

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smoking cyclists at the tour de france 1928

Honestly, I – the middle-aged classic educated Cental-European middle class  woman – really cannot figure out, why the American part of the audience of this blog is so desperately obsessed with this picture, but here it is: the smoking cyclists at the Tour de France 1927 The riders from left to right: Julien Vervaecke (1899-1940) … Read more