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  • TheBrick(Tommy) Yep I am just reading The Hour and it goes on in there about how (forgoten the name) the guy who started the tour at first did not want to allow gears and the stages where 400 + km, he 24 hr type rides, he wanted to more or less see people collapsing.

    "Desgrange stood out against the use of derailleurs for decades, and that, in the year he finally gave way, Roger Lapébie won the Tour on a gearie bike."

    Yeah, his idea of the perfect Tour was where only one rider actually made it to the finish. HARD!

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