Sunday, July 8, 2007

Tour de France: Smokin'

After yesterday's prologue, today is the first stage of the Tour de France 2007. I feel like celebrating that with a picture from the era when "Men were made of steel and boats were made of wood", as cousin E once said. Le Tour has changed in character quite a bit since then.
Huffin' and puffin'

/O.K.
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2 comments:

  1. LSJuly 8, 2007 at 6:41 PM

    What were women made of back then? Wool? Or maybe hemp rope?

    Great picture! All those French hills and mountains need to be conquered once a year. Reminds me of PP and me reading about the race on foot up to the top of Mt Washington in New Hampshire - the winner ran to the top in one hour I think. Amazing!

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  2. O.K.July 8, 2007 at 7:52 PM

    Starched linen! ;)

    The biking clothes were all wool back then, pink spandex for men is a modern invention...

    Up Mt Washington in one hour? Did they check the winner for doping with helium?

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