Fausto Coppi - Original Hipster?

My dad bought me this book called Cycling's Golden Age, loads of great photographs and memorabilia.
Anyways this pic of Coppi at the 1952 Paris 6 day caught my eye, so I thought I'd share...

awesome.

album cover-worthy

Sunglasses indoors... true italian style

Fantastic!

In before NJS, slack chain, double straps, brakeless and arrospok are mentioned.

plimsolls, skinny... leggings? (Hey i saw some fashion student last year wearing sparkly gold ones), ironic fleece, sunglasses, brakeless with upside-down drops (my prediction for the next 'hipster' trend). What a legend. Doing it 56 years before most hipsters were even born.

Theres ALWAYS been 'hipsters' in one way or another!!!!

Hipsters don't wear lycra! ;)

What abut those SHOES.....................................?!

What abut those SHOES.....................................?!

Plimsolls. So last year. I was rocking those back in '51. He was so behind the times that year.

With or without laces?!

laces? pfft. Laces are like brakes.

(they slow you down.) ;)

You can still get shoes like that, I'm just ordering some actually. Made in Bletchley of all places.

The white high heels?

No, but if you want some there are special shops for 'men' like you...

Coppi, pah! Platini is right. Anquetil is the man.
Check out "Jacques Anquetil - The Man, Mystery, Legend." with a Ligget comentary.

Anquetil wasn't fit to lace Fausto's plimsolls. A one trick pony.

Yeah right, nods earnestly

http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1845963016

Anquetil wasn't fit to lace Fausto's plimsolls. A one trick pony.

:-)

In terms of wins then Coppi has a broader range to his palmares than Anquetil and his career was interrupted by WW2.

Coppi also scandalised post war Italy by leaving his wife for a married woman. Not quite up there with a ménage à trois involving your wife and her daughter but still not a bad effort.

Anquetil wasn't fit to lace Fausto's plimsolls. A one trick pony.

So what was the one trick?
Or was it just that he rode better than anyone else of his generation, if you've only one trick it's a pretty good one to have

So what was the one trick?
Or was it just that he rode better than anyone else of his generation, if you've only one trick it's a pretty good one to have
Gain time in the time trials, defend in the mountains. It's been used by others, notably Indurain, but Anquetil was the innovator.

Look, it was a flippant remark. Anquetil was a damn fine rider but on the bike he was boring (in contrast to off it!). Coppi was exciting because he attacked. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

what's the fucking beef with people wearing drainpipe jeans when riding??

'cos they're obviously hipsters, that's what.