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Hardcover The First Tour de France: Sixty Cyclists and Nineteen Days of Daring on the Road to Paris Book

ISBN: 1568589840

ISBN13: 9781568589848

The First Tour de France: Sixty Cyclists and Nineteen Days of Daring on the Road to Paris

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From its inception, the 1903 Tour de France was a colorful affair. Full of adventure, mishaps and audacious attempts at cheating, it was a race to be remembered.

Cyclists of the time weren't enthusiastic about participating in this "heroic" race on roads more suited to hooves than wheels, with bikes weighing up to thirty-five pounds, on a single fixed gear, for three full weeks. Assembling enough riders for the race meant paying unemployed...

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