How to hide that bike on the bus?

[albion]

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/9299903.I_m_sorry__says_runner_who_took_the_bus/

A bit sad and pathetic but are there any similar cycle cheating tales around?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Well there's the story of the 1904 Tour de France where riders were apparently disqualified for taking the train.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Well there's the story of the 1904 Tour de France where riders were apparently disqualified for taking the train.

Hippolyte Acouturier was disqualified for tying wire around a car bumper with cork attached to the end.


He then bit onto the cork and was pulled along by the car.

Hippolyte won four of the six stages, but lost the race to another guy who, as it turns out, was also cheating using some other method out of the Wile E. Coyote playbook. Organizers actually wound up disqualifying the top four finishers and awarded the race to fifth-place finisher Henri Cornet, who apparently was the only one who found a way to cheat that wasn't obvious from a half-mile away.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Hippolyte Acouturier was disqualified...

Hmmm he does look like a rum sort!

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Hmmm he does look like a rum sort!

He's got a deviants tash.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Osbert Lancaster said the measure of a good tash was one that was visible when looking at the back of a chap's head.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Hippolyte Acouturier was disqualified for tying wire around a car bumper with cork attached to the end.


He then bit onto the cork and was pulled along by the car.

Hippolyte won four of the six stages, but lost the race to another guy who, as it turns out, was also cheating using some other method out of the Wile E. Coyote playbook. Organizers actually wound up disqualifying the top four finishers and awarded the race to fifth-place finisher Henri Cornet, who apparently was the only one who found a way to cheat that wasn't obvious from a half-mile away.

I think I just read the same web site! I like this quote -

"competitors used everything from nails and broken glass on the road, to itching powder in the opposing riders' shorts to get an edge. At one point an angry mob randomly attacked some bikers and had to be driven away with gunfire. Yes, bicycle racing was about a thousand times more awesome back then."
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