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| sandranian |
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Received a great email from Nicolas in France regarding that Renault podium jersey on the "Greg Lemond" page of our website. Some more insight on what Greg Lemond was doing with that.... My reply is also posted, along with the picture he cites as evidence.....
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Leli’ffffe8vre Nicolas wrote:
Hi !
Congratulations on your website.
I myself am a french fan of this era, particularly
Greg LeMond and Bernard Hinault...I still have a
picture of me, age 9, riding a peugeot bike covered
with gitane stickers...anyway.
I was looking at the jerseys displayed on Greg's page.
You seem to believe that the yellow jersey is
Hinault's and I disagree...
I'm pretty sure this jersey is from the "Tour de
l'Avenir" 1982 that was greg's first major win as a
professionnal.
Here's a photo.
Wishes,
Nicolas.
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Nice picture, and thanks for the information. You may be right about that jersey. I have never seen a picture from that race, and that certainly looks to be the jersey, except that the one on our webpage is a podium jersey. I wonder if they were making podium jerseys for a race of that size at that time. Podium jerseys were still relatively new at the time, as I understand it....
Anyhow, I hope that you join our forum group. I am going to post this to the forum so that the other fans can read it. Your information was great!
Stephan Andranian
Costa Mesa, CA
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:27 am |
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Hi there...
A few precisions on that subject.
The "Tour de l'avenir" was supposed to be a small tour de France for top amateurs (at the time, USSR and East Germany refused to become pro)and new/young professionnals. This explains the helmet Greg wears on the photo. Riders had to wear one on this type of race (we called it "open").
As you can see, Greg rides the 82 regular Gitane bike with blue ribbons.
Hope you enjoy the ride, fellows !
See you ! |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:38 am |
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| The helmets are called, somewhat jokingly, "hairnets" in the USA (and perhaps other places), because all they did was keep your hair in place, and did essentially nothing in case of a crash. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:38 am |
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| sandranian wrote: |
| The helmets are called, somewhat jokingly, "hairnets" in the USA (and perhaps other places), because all they did was keep your hair in place, and did essentially nothing in case of a crash. |
Well...in France they are called "casque ą boudins" which literally means..."sausage helmet". No hair involved here.  |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:34 am |
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| sandranian wrote: |
Well...in France they are called "casque ą boudins" which literally means..."sausage helmet". No hair involved here. |
lol, nicolas now that was funny. hey sandman check your mail. |
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