Hell Yeah! Friday smiles...

Schleck sandwich

Luis Ocaña (Super Ser Zeus) and Lucien Van Impe (Gitane) in the decisive 14th stage of the 1976 Tour de France in which Van Impe took the maillot jeune which he continued to hold till the race’s conclusion in Paris

Saronni's "Rifle Shot" - Goodwood 1982

‪Saronni Road World Champion 1982 in Goodwood on a Colnago Master‬‏ - YouTube

Marco Pantani en route to victory at Plateau de Beille during the 1998 Tour de France

I find it tre hard to like Mark Cavendish. I take nothing away from him, outstanding ability, albeit delivered to the line more often than not by Renshaw, he has to finish it.

His inflection in the post interview race gets right up my hooter. It that thing where everything goes up at the end? Like a question? Rips my knitting out, that does. Colours to the mast. I don't like the chap.

Cavendish

Bingo

Marco Pantani en route to victory at Plateau de Beille during the 1998 Tour de France

I've actually touched that bike.

It's got a friction shifter on the downtube on the left, apparently to save weight, but I know that it's easier to dress a short cable from the tube rather than the handlebar, so perhaps that's the real reason.

In real life it looks like a child's bike, a 50cm, something like that.
The grime on the bar tape is strangely mesmerising...

Though this was a lovely photo;

Léon Georget climbing the Galibier in the 1909 Tour de France.

Jacques Anquetil in the maillot jaune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=243BJu0zB50&feature=player_embedded

Raymond Poulidor and Roger Pingeon climb the Col du Galibier in the 1967 Tour de France.

Tour de France caravan