Faces from the peloton: the cyclist called Samson
At the turn of the century, when Tour de France was born, the tiny little details of a sport event could tell much more about the society than nowadays. Bicycle was quite a democratic new vehicle in sense of every social class has found its own joy in it. But mostly in the bourgeoisie, the urban middle and upper middle class, the bicycle craze faced some rigid rules. Even Henri Desgrange, the strict founding father of Tour de France, was told in his younger years, that arriving to the workplace on a bicycle is considered as inappropiate for a clerk. He rather quit his job and focused entirely on cycling. Also, at the start of… Read More »Faces from the peloton: the cyclist called Samson
