Vintage professional racing photos thread
 

I'm always browsing the internet looking at old racing pics. I can look at them all day. Feel free to post some up.


http://www.cyclinghalloffame.com/rid...peicher_g4.jpg

http://cdn.24.co.za/files/Cms/Genera...c4c2601523.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/...71_964x665.jpg

http://9bytz.com/wp-content/uploads/...ld-Photo-1.jpg

http://idata.over-blog.com/1/43/41/2...12-P/d9a7e.jpg


Guess those would qualify as modern gravel bikes haha

https://martinsj2.files.wordpress.co..._de_france.jpg

http://cdn.secretforts.com/wp-conten...7x9o1_5001.jpg

http://www.bikeraceinfo.com/images-a...bet-e-Gemi.jpg

http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyM...26d/Tour19.jpg

http://multimedia.pol.dk/archive/001...52_196436a.jpg

http://photo.parismatch.com/actu-mat...ticlephoto.jpg

https://davidavery.files.wordpress.c...ur-numbers.jpg

http://www.tour-racing.co.uk/assets/...958Chute2w.jpg

http://www.bikejuju.com/wp-content/u...2a1d179d_o.jpg

http://dnaimg.com/2011/07/18/tour-de...y-1930s/27.jpg

Look at those tree trunk legs :eek:

http://i.imgur.com/YoR6hoR.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__ZQXHfjp4E...600/TDF006.jpg

Cool seatpost.

http://forallmyfriends.com/wp-conten...chool-bike.jpg


What I would like to do to union protesters.

http://www.ibiscycles.com/images/upl...photo_(34).JPG

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C...VFm6Tn6dcF_XGw

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0720..._climbs_01.jpg

https://thinkingchapblog.files.wordp...mifo1_1280.jpg

http://bmwmcmag.com/wp-content/uploa...nce2013-07.jpg

http://industrie.com.au/image/data/blog/tour3.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l...rcwfo1_500.jpg

https://40.media.tumblr.com/189c1c84...fjdzo1_500.jpg

http://bikeraceinfo.com/images-all/t...-R-ha-fora.jpg

http://www.cyclinghalloffame.com/rid.../Buysse_L2.jpg

http://la-legende-du-tour.francetvsp..._photo_620.jpg

http://www.blog.biciklo.rs/wp-conten...02395_edit.jpg

Have a couple of non-bicycling friends who have family scrapbooks with racing and touring pictures from the 30's through the 50's. Cool pictures, but they don't want to share. Too bad, I bet there are tons collecting dust.

Looks like you about covered it. heh..

neat pics.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/...34_964x698.jpg

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...p_2620361k.jpg

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...g_2620261k.jpg

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...n_2620340k.jpg

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...r_2620279k.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ini_(1960).jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/681231...7627669287011/

The most popular thus far,

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7180/...8f25004a_b.jpg1939_Giro032 by iabisdb, on Flickr


My personal favorite,

https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6169/...e5504c21_b.jpgSI3 by iabisdb, on Flickr

Fausto Coppi

http://www.adventure-journal.com/wp-...usto-coppi.jpg

http://www.faustocoppi.it/foto8.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QMMi0dSl-6...vzbo1_1280.jpg

This is Fausto Coppi’s 1952 World Championship winning Bianchi Specialissima complete with insulated bottle covers, Campagnolo derailleurs, Ambrosio forged aluminium stem and Universal brakes. The frame was a huge advance on the bikes of the time…

http://legsfeelingnopressure.com/wp-.../06/coppi1.jpg

http://cdn.media.cyclingnews.com/201...396827_670.jpg

http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it...p_10120_83.jpg

Gino Bartali

http://inspirezblog.files.wordpress....tali_19482.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo...xp0io1_500.jpg

http://cdn.tempi.it/wp-content/uploa...Yad_vashem.jpg



Rack mounts are cool

http://cycling-passion.com/wp-conten...li-Legnano.jpg

http://www.rai.it/dl/img/2013/09/300...59Bartali2.jpg

While the internets like to claim your third picture is Fausto Coppi, it is not. It is Piet van Kempen.

Piet van Kempen sipping tea and reading the newspaper while riding a bicycle - Lomography

But if you want Coppi casual on a pista, I like this one,

http://www.milanofixed.com/wp-conten...8/04/coppi.jpg

http://www.gazettevaldoise.fr/files/...ENDRE-1955.jpg

http://cdn.velonews.competitor.com/f...pebiesmall.jpg

http://www.franceinter.fr/sites/defa...ns-titre-1.jpg

http://i1.eurosport.com/2010/03/08/5...6-1600-900.jpg

http://www.lecoqsportif.com/medias/v...sh_history.jpg

http://auto.img.v4.skyrock.net/1283/...2_ZtfeQIxe.jpg

Yeah, I'm bored today.

http://img.rtve.es/imagenes/arranca-...2454185552.jpg

http://poppygall.com/blog/wp-content...-DE-FRANCE.jpg

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--...tators-008.jpg

http://mwg.com.au/wordpress/wp-conte...e-route-6.jpeg

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/i...0630191423.jpg

http://www.cycleboredom.com/wp-conte...04/through.jpg

Wow! That gaggle of coupes in the first bunch there is nice. In the next bunch that guy is getting chased by a Bugatti. ...... And Josephine Baker!!!!!!!!

http://lamedilligas.com/wp-content/u...4-week-3-3.jpg

http://cf-resrc.outsideonline.com/C=...ly-gaul_ph.jpg

http://www.linformateur-leclaireur.f...10zw-630x0.jpg

http://gomeansgo.org/wp-content/gall...ars_tdf_07.jpg

http://cycling-passion.com/wp-conten...enzo-magni.jpg

Charly Gaul on Mont-Ventoux, Tour de France 1958 stage 18

http://cycling-passion.com/wp-conten...8-1024x771.jpg

Mont-Ventoux 1958

http://s-www.dna.fr/images/170341DA-...ine-libere.jpg

Anquetil and Poulidor 1964

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/a...l-Poulidor.jpg

Gustave Garrigou 1911

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/a...rigou-Tour.jpg

Antonin Magne 1934

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/a...Magne-1934.jpg

Gaul on the Col d'Izoard 1956

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H0RbUNXC5M...2011_00014.jpg

Rene Privat 1959

http://galerie.parismatch.com/volume...96327137_0.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_C3Jeq-tHoT...2B-%2B011A.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KFDxsvRg_2...+195000002.jpg

http://la-dordogne-cycliste.allmyblo...421_153948.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lc3-VVglze...1600/eagle.jpg

http://s3.lprs1.fr/images/2013/07/10...151780182c.jpg

http://home-1.tiscali.nl/~edwinsel/p...ei%202003).jpg

Hippolyte Aucouturier 1905

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/i...0630191449.jpg

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0706...efrance_05.jpg

http://www.sterba-bike.cz/media/foto...0878f44242.jpg

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0706...efrance_10.jpg

http://www.globalpost.com/sites/defa...9-20110713.jpg

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2013/0706...efrance_11.jpg

Great pics! A few of these are bound for the workbench wall

These two show the true meaning of decisive moment. Shame on these lazy schmucks with their top of the line D4s and Mark 1Dxses who shoot at machine *** speed and still fail to capture story. As a photographer myself (temporarily retired) I respect immense amount of attention photogs of the past paid to their jobs.

What happens at first picture? Is the bike veers to the left somehow or is it a bystander jumped in?

Haha, love that Hinault punch! There is also a video of the moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqMqCc1Qy7E

I don't have many photos to contribute to the thread, but think these will do the job.

http://s7.hostingkartinok.com/upload...402477c77b.jpg

http://s7.hostingkartinok.com/upload...dcada4542d.jpg

Zootemelk and Merckx.

http://s7.hostingkartinok.com/upload...782745abec.jpg

1973 Giro.

http://s7.hostingkartinok.com/upload...27cb636d9a.jpg

1972 Hour record.

http://s7.hostingkartinok.com/upload...842f2f3b5a.jpg

I've never seen an Olympia in racing till now and not how I wanted to see one.:p

Alfonsina Strada (16 March 1891 – 13 September 1959) was an Italian cyclist, the only woman to have ridden one of cycling's three major stage races. She started in the Giro d'Italia in 1924 when the organizers mistook her for a man. Newspapers called her The Devil in a dress.

Her racing career included an Italian record which lasted 26 years. She died aged 69 as she propped up her motorcycle after riding to a bicycle race.

http://c2.plzcdn.com/ZillaIMG/05eda6...1405506500.jpg

http://bikeraceinfo.com/images-all/r...-Alfonsina.jpg

http://f.hikr.org/files/243596l.jpg

http://www.empolitour.it/Immagini/strada.jpg

http://cycling-passion.com/wp-conten...talia-1924.jpg