It was a simpler world in them-there days. The word ‘touristes’ is used to describe people who tour, rather than sunburned drunkards looking for a fight. As for ‘les amateurs de rétro-pédalage’, they are ‘the lovers of back pedalling’ rather than ‘the incompetent twats who can’t even back pedal properly’...

(Source gallica.bnf.fr/ Bibliothèque nationale de France)

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• Publisher: T.C.F. Revue Mensuelle
• Country: France
• Date: April 1904
• Derailleur brands: Terrot
• Derailleurs: none