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Holger

Hello again, here some tales and pictures from Anjou Velo Vintage in
Saumur France from last weekend.

First, this event will definitely be the place to be in europe when it comes
to vintage cycling, beside the nowadays hopelessly overbooked l`eroica.

second, sorry, again i have made to less and to lousy photos, so its better you go to www.anjouvelovintage.fr and have a look there.

Saturday morning on the camping

crossing the bridge to have a first look on the market

River Loire

Exhibition Velos de legende
Maitre Jaques

Fignons tragic TT Bike

and Jan Ullrich`s TT Bike 2003(how could he sit on that?)

Velo Orange had a nice porte de bidon

Jerseys

now thats a trailer

en miniature

vendeur

parc ferme

Jaques Anquetil exhibition

no comment

my wifes first vintage bike
Cyles Reboul from Bordeaux 1943 even in France "Inconue"
bought on the market

me and my "Stuttgart Tweed Run" gear

wich i choose for saturday

Sunday 10am the start of the 101km
me and my bike

after the run i walked again one time over the market, and as i walked
by the Anquetil exhibiton, suddenly a french man run to me and tried to pull out my jersey , he was the exhibitor and collector, he dare me to shoot a pic on his stand and here it is

finally i am just overwhelmed, that weekend passed by like a dream
and quickly we sat in our car driving some 900km home,making plans for the next year.
Thanks, to all the friendly gorgeous people there.
Also Forum member KHUNSA who i identify by his orange Gitane so we rode most of the 101k together
thanks to Oliver who sold me that bidon Evian to complete my bike
and also thanks to my bike for give me a smooth and good ride
A.Dugast tubulares are great.

finally the bike, there was a handwritten card from the Gitane factory in
the seat tube on wich is written prestige so i call that bike

bye,Holger

ozbike

Hi Holger
Thanks for the pictures I love retro stuff. looks like you had a wonderful time, your bike and unifrom look superbe! well done!
I have often wondered if Eroica was getting too big, I would like to hear your opinion on it. There is another retro ride I know about Retro Ronde. http://www.crvv.be/en/museum/activities/retroronde. I want to do one of these rides but can only afford to do one. Witch one I can't decide.

trois tubes

There is also Tour des Trois...

http://www.td3.ch/

Holger

thank you for your kind words,

i dont think the l`eroica is too big because they had limited for safety reasons the number of participants so the problem is to get a number.
Cause when they open the online inscription its after the first two hours
outbooked or the server broke down.

-If you like an event under the "race" spirit theres nothing better to join the long 200k or 135k at the l`eroica to go to your own limit and feel like Gino Bartali.
i was there two times, once i made the 200k, and never again i felt so exhausted and also lucky, unforgettable!

-if you search something for the whole family, then anjou is the best
spirit of `randonneur`its all about fun and a very very good time, but
not that race feeling.

i know there are a lot of events and i allways want to go belgium and the
tour de trois, and join them all but sadly its all about time and money.

by the way, there are a lot more events in italy than the l`eroica go to

www.bicidepoca.it

hope i could help you

Holger

me, at the 75k in 2009

Bir Hakeim

Hello Holger

I saw your beautifull Gitane

at Saumur (and the nice Reboul too - my wife want the same ! ) . It is a Bernard Carré's frame ?

Wink

Anjou velo Vintage 2012 par Bir Hakeim, sur Flickr

Holger

Wow, thats our bike just after we bought it, after that we eat something and drank a bottle of Cremant de Loire in one of these Restaurants nearby, but sorry i dont know Bernard Carre Embarassed

Did you rode that blue 85 Gitane?

best regards, Holger

Bir Hakeim

About Bernard Carré on gitaneUSA : http://www.gitaneusa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2136&sid=4bb7c3ca45de2af1fdd1b2a489a26b72

The seat stay cap of your Gitane is like B. Carré's products. So....

I didn't ride the Gitane Pro 1985 because it need a restoration and because its size is not quite for me. I hope my wife ride it next year in Saumur.
Wink

CMAW

Great pics, thanks for sharing. Is definitely on my list for next year.

sandranian · Site Admin

Thanks so much for sharing this with GitaneUSA! Great pictures, and I love your bike.

khunsa

Two gitane and one helyett on the same line at the start of the Anjou Velo Vintage.

It was a very nice week end, I hope I can go back next year

MrVelo · Last edited by MrVelo on Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:06 am; edited 1 time in total

Dear Friends,

I have dream, actually I have a plan to join Velo Anjou Vintage this year. But I have a problem. Transporting bicycle from finland is maybe too demanding. Is there any chance to rent a vintage race bike so that it is possible to join the race.

My plan is to fly from Nizza to Nantes and try to find my way to Saumur, also accomodation is still unclear.

Best Regards,
Mikko
www.mrvelo.com
mr@sci.fi

PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED; SEE YOU IN SAUMUR!

Kinst VonSterga

Thanks for the great pics Holger!
What's even better than seeing old vintage bicycles that have been restored is seeing old vintage men riding them, feeling restored. The most painful thing is to see vintage bicycles retired as wall-art.
Cheers