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Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
It was my birthday last week, and my sister in law bought me a book on the History of Le Tour.
Very nice, so sat down to read it last night with a glass (or two) of Vino.
The start of the book briefly goes through each year's race. So reading about the SECOND Tour, it was nearly the last due to cheating and lots of 'fans' beating up rival riders. One rider in particular was called Faure, and his fans were some of the main culprits.
Now that just so happens to be my wife's maiden name. Ho ho did I have some fun - going to have to wind my SIL up now that her family/friends nearly ruined the Tour.
My wife did hasten to add that there are two Faure's, one without an accent on the 'e' and one with, and it was that their dad had stopped using the accent, so it really wasn't their side !
I'll get some mileage out of this
Very nice, so sat down to read it last night with a glass (or two) of Vino.
The start of the book briefly goes through each year's race. So reading about the SECOND Tour, it was nearly the last due to cheating and lots of 'fans' beating up rival riders. One rider in particular was called Faure, and his fans were some of the main culprits.
Now that just so happens to be my wife's maiden name. Ho ho did I have some fun - going to have to wind my SIL up now that her family/friends nearly ruined the Tour.
My wife did hasten to add that there are two Faure's, one without an accent on the 'e' and one with, and it was that their dad had stopped using the accent, so it really wasn't their side !
I'll get some mileage out of this
"Fauré's a jolly good fellow..."
