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The French national team squad for the 1930 TdF (the first TdF edition with national teams).

From left to right:

• the future manager of French national cycling team — Marcel Bidot,

• Pierre Magne — the brother of

• the future DS of Raymond Poulidor — Antonin Magne,

• the winner of the 1930 and 1932 TdFs André Leducq

• and the third brother of a star rider who was killed by his second wife with a gun his first wife killed herself with AND of Jacques Anquetil’s first mentor — Charles Pélissier.

#classic cycling #cycling history #marcel bidot #pierre magne #antonin magne #andre leducq #charles pelissier

Cycling history using memes

Robic and Géminiani in 1952:

Let me set the stage. Tour de France 1952, stage 5, Nello Lauredi is leading the race and Jean Robic and Raphael Géminiani are teammates.

After the stage Robic held an impromptu press conference in his bath. Géminiani heard him tell reporters: "I was the crafty one today. I played dead so that I didn't have to do any of the work. And now I've got plenty of chances whereas Gem ought to be in mourning for his Tour."

Géminiani pushed his way through the journalists and dunked Robic's head into the bathroom sink three times.

Marcel Bidot heard the commotion and arrived with Raymond Le Bert, soigneur for Bobet. The two pulled the men apart, Le Bert saying: "If you fight like that, nobody will benefit but the opposition. Work together instead of bitching all the time (au lieu de vous manger le nez). You'll use less energy and you can both win."

#cycling history lessons #tour de france 1952 #raphael geminiani #jean robic #marcel bidot #cycling stuff #cycling #cycling history #Raymond Le Bert

A married gay couple on the right, a young & free gay couple on the left and a single old man who’s hiding his face and trying not to be identified.

#roger riviere #jacques anquetil #marcel bidot #louison bobet #raphael geminiani

The squad of the French national cycling team for the 1958 TdF.

From left to right and from down to up:

Louison Bobet, Jacques Anquetil, Marcel Bidot (the directeur sportif), André Darrigade,

Roger Walkowiak, François Mahe, Georges Groussard, Jean Stablinski,

Louis Bergaud, Gilbert Bauvin, René Privat,

Jean Forestier and Francis Pipelin.

#classic cycling #louison bobet #jacques anquetil #marcel bidot #andre darrigade #roger walkowiak #francois mahe #georges groussard #jean stablinski #louis bergaud #gilbert bauvin #rene privat #jean forestier #francis pipelin

Cycling history explained, using memes

How petty do you want to be?

Raphaël Géminiani: Yes!

So, 1958 Tour de France, nothing short of drama. But the drama started before the Tour even started, involving the French national team. Their manager, Marcel Bidot, was struggling to pick his riders because Anquetil, Bobet and Géminiani were fucking petty bitches. Anquetil, who was not on good terms with Bobet AT ALL, agreed to be on the same team as him but, "I'm not putting up with a coalition against me in my own team. So, it's Bobet or Géminiani, but not both." Géminiani expected Bobet to stand by his side, but Bobet did not, and it was the end of their friendship. And who was to blame, Marcel Bidot, of course.

So Géminiani rode the Tour as captain of the Centre-Midi team, trying to get even. As he was a favorite of the journalists he paraded a DONKEY around for all to see, who he called 'Marcel', announcing loudly to everyone, "because he is just like Bidot - stubborn and stupid."

When during the race the French team was attacking he would be yelling, "look everyone, the French team is attacking. They're attacking. Give them a big round of applause!" Which he kept up for ALMOST THREE WEEKS.

He wore the yellow jersey that year for three days (stage 18-20) and when Gaul won stage 21 causing Géminiani to lose the jersey to Vito Favero he screamed, in a theatrical style, of which only he was capable of, that the French team were, "Judas. All Judas." And Nobody Was Quite Sure Why?