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Ok...christmas & holidays are good opportunities to see your family and friends.
A few months ago, I had missionned my folks to dig out stuff about cycling in my childhood.
Here's what my father found. This drawings are from 1984-85, so I was 10 or 11 years old :
You'll see that the riders change but bikes are all the same...
And THIS is priceless...
This is my first FAKE Gitane : a light blue Le Grévès bike with Gitane stickers :
Note that I'm wearing Greg LeMond's world champion gloves.
And this is the finest Renault cap ever :
Those are probably from spring 1985 or 86.
Nothing's changed that much, huh ?  |
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Great pics! I did the same thing in the '60s and '70s, but I drew Chevrolet Corvettes and the Captain America chopper from Easy Rider.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:13 am |
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Thanks Nicolas, for the look back in time. These are great images and they brought a smile to my face and the start to a great day.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:30 am |
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| geekrunner wrote: |
Great pics! I did the same thing in the '60s and '70s, but I drew Chevrolet Corvettes and the Captain America chopper from Easy Rider.
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Question is : are you haunting corvette & capt america forums these days ? |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:32 am |
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| smilingroadrunner wrote: |
Thanks Nicolas, for the look back in time. These are great images and they brought a smile to my face and the start to a great day.
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My pleasure. |
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| awsome stuff < thanks for sharing your memories with us nicolas |
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Those are the best pictures that have ever been posted to the forum...and I am being absolutely honest about that. Really nice!
I like how the road looks similar to the "hero cards" of the Gitane team from 1982. |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:30 am |
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| sandranian wrote: |
| Those are the best pictures that have ever been posted to the forum...and I am being absolutely honest about that. Really nice! |
 thanks, that means a lot to me...
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| I like how the road looks similar to the "hero cards" of the Gitane team from 1982. |
That's EXACTLY what it was supposed to be ! My brother & I tried, this very day, to take pictures the way we saw them on those postcards & magazines...amazing that 25 years later you make the parallel...
Here's a last one :
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Superb Nicolas. Wonderful photos and memories.
It's definitely Nicolas of the Gitane team...
Thanks so much for posting.
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Nicolas,
Thanks much for the great pictures. They made me reminisce about my own youth.
Chas. |
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