Le Route. Oh.

Friday, 29 July 2011

Getting in the spirit

June 30: Rapha whet the appetites with a great film about the Galibier.  Watch it here:http://www.rapha.cc/galibier/?cm_mmc=email-_-300611-_-textlink-_-galibier
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What it is all about

1910: At the top of the Aubisque, Desgrange (the founder of the Tour De France) and the other officials awaited the first riders. It was Lapize who emerged first, his face a perfect rictus of agony. On the stage’s final climb and with the pain of the Tourmalet still in his legs, it was at that moment that Lapize uttered the words for which he would become famous: “Vous êtes des assassins!”