Fausto Coppi - Original Hipster?

I don't wear skinny jeans.. I just make big jeans look skinny ;)

Albert Londres died in mysterious circumstances. He'd been in China, researching what he told friends would be a big scandal. On his voyage home a suspicious fire broke out on the ship, killing him and everyone else on board...

Albert Londres died in mysterious circumstances. He'd been in China, researching what he told friends would be a big scandal. On his voyage home a suspicious fire broke out on the ship, killing him and everyone else on board...

And Coppi died after some lacklustre/dubious medical diagnoses. The plot thickens...

Shit, do you think this is related to Armstrong becoming an unaballer? Perhaps that was a side effect of some doping?

Clearly all of this is related. I wonder if Tom Simpson was involved in it too. We could really be unravelling a very big story here guys.

Definitely. I mean, everyone knows yesterday's Tour of Flanders was just an elaborate drug mule operation as well. Those riders were only there to ferry phials of the good stuff between assorted checkpoints and team cars.

Mulengers.

Coppi makes Lance look like what he is - two-dimensional.

Lance is a total hipster! Singlespeed, bike gang--he even rode a tall bike!

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...

I've got that book, it is a great one. Some of those moth eaten pink jerseys would look baddass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0_VjR8_4X4

Coppi and Koblet fight it out in the 1953 Giro...

There are extracts from 'Tour de Souffrance" in Graeme Fife's 'Inside the Peloton'
I also have 'Cyclings golden age'. A hardback jazz mag..

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