[Leica] Le Midi PAW 02

[Douglas Barry]

and copious amounts of then not illegal aids :-) Lance would have loved it.

The thought of trying any of those climbs on a single geared bike just 
leaves me boggled, When I did triathlons, on my Mercian which is still 
outside in the garage, I had 52 and 42 on the front rings, and 21,19,17,15, 
and 13 on the back. I changed the back block later to a six cog one, but 
nowadays, even my son has a nine cog back block on his Specialised, and the 
pros use eleven apparently.

Bikes like cameras are evolving all the time, but the appeal of the 
engineering and feel of a Leica M3 is hard to beat. It's the same with bikes 
as my 1980 Mercian Superlight is now collectable.

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.fr>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2017 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Le Midi PAW 02


Thanks Douglas, the 1910 Tour was up there on unsurfaced roads and single 
geared bikes....

john

-----Original Message-----

Some great images there, John. I've been up a couple of the Alpine climbs 
(in a car!), but never any of the Pyreneean ones. Cycling is one tough 
sport.

Douglas

----- Original Message -----
>From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.fr>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2017 10:43 AM
Subject: [Leica] Le Midi PAW 02


As you saw from this week's Pano we went to the Atlantic Midi this week to
visit friends. Stopping for a quick break west of Tarbes we stumbled across
this statue at L'Aire des Pyrénées on the A64... It is there to commemorate
the first visit of the Tour de France to the Col de Tourmalet in 1910;
apparently as part of seven great climbs that day, which started at 03:30,
riding 15kg bikes they travelled 326km which the winner completed in 14
hours!

http://johnmcmaster.com/PAW/2017/02

C & C welcome

john



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