1962 Tour de France vid. When men were men!

DevUK
DevUK Posts: 299
edited August 2009 in The bottom bracket
A friend posted this link on Twitter. Quite amazing how riders got hold of their water when they didn't have a support car following them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3EHJjHP6yc#t=4m50
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  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    Great footage, thanks!
  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
    Surely drinking alcohol isn't the best of ideas!

    Great video though! :D
    Emiliana the CAAD9
  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    The organisers had actually banned the taking of glass bottles into the peleton (for obvious reasons) but it was generally ignored. When Vin Denson rode as a domestique for Van Looy he used to carry a bottle opener in his pocket as the man liked a beer on a hot day.
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    White Line wrote:
    Surely drinking alcohol isn't the best of ideas!

    Great video though! :D

    Like the title says "Men were Men". Not some sissy who's always worrying about his electrolyte, carb, protein, ratio and power output. :wink::wink:
  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    dennisn wrote:
    White Line wrote:
    Surely drinking alcohol isn't the best of ideas!

    Great video though! :D

    Like the title says "Men were Men". Not some sissy who's always worrying about his electrolyte, carb, protein, ratio and power output. :wink::wink:
    Here here Dennis.

    Look at Anquetil, his pre race routine involved getting blattered on champagne and shagging his step-daughter and he still won the Tour de France. Bet he didn't waste time worrying about his heart rate.
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    Smokin Joe wrote:
    dennisn wrote:
    White Line wrote:
    Surely drinking alcohol isn't the best of ideas!

    Great video though! :D

    Like the title says "Men were Men". Not some sissy who's always worrying about his electrolyte, carb, protein, ratio and power output. :wink::wink:
    Here here Dennis.

    Look at Anquetil, his pre race routine involved getting blattered on champagne and shagging his step-daughter and he still won the Tour de France. Bet he didn't waste time worrying about his heart rate.

    Or his Garmin.
  • nicensleazy
    nicensleazy Posts: 2,310
    Great stuff!
  • DevUK
    DevUK Posts: 299
    I love the drinks raids! I'd like to do that on my morning commute ;)
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  • geoff_ss
    geoff_ss Posts: 1,201
    Excellent stuff and the videos surrounding it are very good too. I particularly liked the 3 depicting someone's idea of the 30 best riders ever.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLhp5c79 ... re=channel

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJPgHu4t ... re=channel

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBdypZ3I ... re=channel


    All well worth watching. Lance comes only 7th behind Big Mig but ahead of Sean Kelly. Winner? Who do you think? But Hinault is rated number 2. The stuff of passionate argument :)

    Geoff
    Old cyclists never die; they just fit smaller chainrings ... and pedal faster
  • crankycrank
    crankycrank Posts: 1,830
    Hah!! What a coincidence. I happened to stumble across that film in my favorite obscure video store a few months back. It was done by the french film director Louis Malle and I believe it's titled "Vive Le Tour" as in the YouTube title. I can't remember exactly but I believe it's about 30mins long with sparse info about the riders so it helps to know your cycling history a bit. Very interesting!

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