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Grand Prix des Nations 1949
I thought that, perhaps, this picture might enliven the thread>
Rene Berton won the 1948 event and must have started as some sort of favourite in '49 - on the day he came a respectable 4th.
But what's interesting is that he rode fixed, and presumably the same in '48. Who would have thought that in the land of the derailleur (widespread use long before the war) there were still
those who had faith in fixed!
I guess a tout casser must mean something like 'shit or bust'
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