Top one Paris Roubaix on a wet day? Or maybe the Ronde on a pave section?
Bottom, Eddy showing how to do it on a typical Belgian spring day...memories.
Middle, has to be a Schleck, racing in their usual semi-horizontal style - basic rule keep well clear of them unless you like eating pave..!
Brilliant pictures.![]()
what was the story there ? something like he'd dislocated a shoulder and couldn't grip the handlebars so used the tape to help ?Magni, in the '56 'corsa rosa'
That's right, he had fell earlier and broken his left collar bone, so used the elastic to help pull on the bars. Unable to brake properly though, he fell again and landed on the same shoulder, concussed, he came to in an ambulance and insisted on getting out and finishing the stage. Proper Rule #5 in them days.what was the story there ? something like he'd dislocated a shoulder and couldn't grip the handlebars so used the tape to help ?