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Unwritten, blank, never sent photo card of two ladies in a photo studio.
Damaged bottom and top edges cut away.
Faces slightly sharpened. Left face did not quite succeed in this.
But better than original.
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1908 is the year my grandfather's cycling career began. Soon he would also be driving here. But not yet in 1908.
Start of a race on a Sunday in early July at the Scheveningen track.
For more on these three stayers: see their album.
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Say, If you need a cart, think of Jan Verhoeff (in Rotterdam).
The word “kar” or “karretje” is sometimes used in Dutch for a (reliable, solid) bicycle.
Advertisement in Dutch weekly sports magazine in July 1911.
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The photographer's bike is against a tree on the left. The two men in caps have bicycles with racing handlebars. The one on the right has no visible handbrake; all the others do. No one has lights.
On the back of the card is a publisher's logo and 'Series 1349 2.'
Also because the sender - with a fiddly handwriting - does not refer to the group of cyclists at all, I suspect this is a commercial postcard.
The postmark says Leipzig-Gohlis 8-9V 17-6-1907. And the addressee is a 'Dear Anna C.' in Groitzsch, an old, small town in the Leipzig district.
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The German text reads:
"My new bike is nickel-plated,
The very best kind of steel,
But the devil should ride it,
Believe me on my word of honour"
This picture postcard showing a bike falling apart, reminds me of what happened recently to many bakfietsen by bike manufacturer Babboe, part of the Accell Group.
After hundreds of complaints were received of frames breaking in half while cycling, the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) intervened February 2024 and Babboe was no longer allowed to sell cargo bikes.
There was a major recall.
As far as I know, sales have restarted.
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The cyclist:
Well father Francois, did you see my speed?
The grower:
Speed! ... But girly, I'll tell you honestly lady, at our home in Challins I would call that a thiu....
So no idea what the punchline of this joke is. I assume thiu is a corruption of a word. But which one? Any ideas?
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13/5/2024:
Turns out to be dialect for an ass. So a crude joke. Which, given the drawing, was to be expected.
By the way, an interesting drawing. The man with the shovel is a grower. It seems to be the case that in France, large tracts of land around villages and towns used to be cultivated with one crop. And that this crop was sold on the spot to passers-by. In this case, it is a bulb whose name I do not know.
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Sent postcard (Carte postale issued by Artaud & Nozais, Nantes.)
Addressed to a Madame J., living on Avenue de Paris in Châtillon-sous-Bagneux (today Châtillon, a medieval town located some 7 km south-west of the centre of Paijs).
With the message:
"Warm greetings to all from Marie Louise."
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'Correszpondenz-Karte' The photo caption was written in pencil on the smooth paper and actually impossible to read with the naked eye. But fortunately there are photo editing programmes these days.
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The photo caption reads:
"Cyclist E.P. v.d. Wiel, who won the Dutch Championship for independents on the Scheveningsche Wielerbaan last Sunday."
July 16, 1911: Final of the Championship of Holland for "independents" over 15 K.M., with live pacing: 1st P. v.d. Wiel, Rotterdam, time 22.03 1/5; 2nd G.B. Damen; 3rd A. Lambrechts; 4th Schippers. Hollaar fallen.
(This championship over 45 laps of the track had been stopped earlier, on June 25, because of rain when there were still 16 laps to go. At that time, Lambrecht was well in the lead, followed by V.d. Wiel.
Also fun to know: in the early morning of June 25 22 riders had entered the series.)
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The Scheveningsche Wielerbaan, started in 1888 as a track made of rolled rubble. Between 1907 and 1916 a wooden track. Demolished to make way for housing development. In 1921 replaced by (a very successful) cycling track in the neighboring town of Rijswijk.
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Participant in the 1913 World Cycling Championships
Professionals (Leipzig)
Sprint
Gold: Walter Rütt Germany, silver: Thorvald Ellegaard Denmark, bronze: André Perchicot France
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Paul Guilnard France, silver Jules Miquel France, bronze: Richard Scheuermann Germany
Amateurs (Berlin)
Sprint
Gold: William Bailey Great Britain, silver Harry Ryan Great Britain, bronze: Christel Rode Germany
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Leon Meredith Great Britain, silver: Alex Beyer Germany, silver Cor Blekemolen Netherlands
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Participant in the 1913 World Cycling Championships
Professionals (Leipzig)
Sprint
Gold: Walter Rütt Germany, silver: Thorvald Ellegaard Denmark, bronze: André Perchicot France
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Paul Guilnard France, silver Jules Miquel France, bronze: Richard Scheuermann Germany
Amateurs (Berlin)
Sprint
Gold: William Bailey Great Britain, silver Harry Ryan Great Britain, bronze: Christel Rode Germany
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Leon Meredith Great Britain, silver: Alex Beyer Germany, silver Cor Blekemolen Netherlands
Participant in the 1913 World Cycling Championships
Professionals (Leipzig)
Sprint
Gold: Walter Rütt Germany, silver: Thorvald Ellegaard Denmark, bronze: André Perchicot France
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Paul Guilnard France, silver Jules Miquel France, bronze: Richard Scheuermann Germany
Amateurs (Berlin)
Sprint
Gold: William Bailey Great Britain, silver Harry Ryan Great Britain, bronze: Christel Rode Germany
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Leon Meredith Great Britain, silver: Alex Beyer Germany, silver Cor Blekemolen Netherlands
April 14, 1914
Injured and died as a result of a tire blow-out on the Leipzig track during the inaugural Grote Oostprijs, a 100+ km race.
Van Nek's Amsterdam artistic gravesite marker is a well-known monument in Amsterdam.[81]
Participant in the 1913 World Cycling Championships
Professionals (Leipzig)
Sprint
Gold: Walter Rütt Germany, silver: Thorvald Ellegaard Denmark, bronze: André Perchicot France
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Paul Guilnard France, silver Jules Miquel France, bronze: Richard Scheuermann Germany
Amateurs (Berlin)
Sprint
Gold: William Bailey Great Britain, silver Harry Ryan Great Britain, bronze: Christel Rode Germany
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Leon Meredith Great Britain, silver: Alex Beyer Germany, silver Cor Blekemolen Netherlands
June 1, 1924: died in an accident on the Magdeburg track.
Participant in the 1913 World Cycling Championships
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Participant in the 1913 World Cycling Championships
Professionals (Leipzig)
Sprint
Gold: Walter Rütt Germany, silver: Thorvald Ellegaard Denmark, bronze: André Perchicot France
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Paul Guilnard France, silver Jules Miquel France, bronze: Richard Scheuermann Germany
Amateurs (Berlin)
Sprint
Gold: William Bailey Great Britain, silver Harry Ryan Great Britain, bronze: Christel Rode Germany
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Leon Meredith Great Britain, silver: Alex Beyer Germany, silver Cor Blekemolen Netherlands
Participant in the 1913 World Cycling Championships
Professionals (Leipzig)
Sprint
Gold: Walter Rütt Germany, silver: Thorvald Ellegaard Denmark, bronze: André Perchicot France
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Paul Guilnard France, silver Jules Miquel France, bronze: Richard Scheuermann Germany
Amateurs (Berlin)
Sprint
Gold: William Bailey Great Britain, silver Harry Ryan Great Britain, bronze: Christel Rode Germany
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Leon Meredith Great Britain, silver: Alex Beyer Germany, silver Cor Blekemolen Netherlands
Participant in the 1913 World Cycling Championships
Professionals (Leipzig)
Sprint
Gold: Walter Rütt Germany, silver: Thorvald Ellegaard Denmark, bronze: André Perchicot France
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Paul Guilnard France, silver Jules Miquel France, bronze: Richard Scheuermann Germany
Amateurs (Berlin)
Sprint
Gold: William Bailey Great Britain, silver Harry Ryan Great Britain, bronze: Christel Rode Germany
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Leon Meredith Great Britain, silver: Alex Beyer Germany, silver Cor Blekemolen Netherlands
Born: 27-08-1880 - Berlin
Fallen in Great War: 24-08-1916 - Doberitz
Participant in the 1913 World Cycling Championships
1911 3º in Mainz, Six Days, Mainz (Rheinland-Pfalz), Germany
Participant in the 1913 World Cycling Championships
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Participant in the 1913 World Cycling Championships
Professionals (Leipzig)
Sprint
Gold: Walter Rütt Germany, silver: Thorvald Ellegaard Denmark, bronze: André Perchicot France
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Paul Guilnard France, silver Jules Miquel France, bronze: Richard Scheuermann Germany
Amateurs (Berlin)
Sprint
Gold: William Bailey Great Britain, silver Harry Ryan Great Britain, bronze: Christel Rode Germany
Motor-paced racing
Gold: Leon Meredith Great Britain, silver: Alex Beyer Germany, silver Cor Blekemolen Netherlands
Pieter Casper Johan "Piet" Dikkentman (4 January 1879 – 7 October 1950) was a professional cyclist from the Netherlands. He had a long a successful career spanning from 1885 to 1928, which peaked in 1903 when he won the UCI Motor-paced World Championships.
He crashed in Leipzig in April 1914 during a stayer race.