CRACKING NAMES IN CYCLING

Because the Giro d'Italia is about to start. The Italians might not have the best riders at the moment (Melvin thinks highly of Nibali though...!) but they do have the best rider names of all time:

1) Marco Velo
2) Guido Bontempi 
3) Crescenzo d'Amore

OK... there's also some garçons called Champion. Dimitri, who won the French Nationals in 2009, and Albert, the 1899 winner of Paris-Roubaix (via). Competing from Holland: two times Alpe d'Huez stage winner Peter Winnen. Yes, his name means what you think it does. He's a writer now and a pretty good one too IMHO. 

ET DIEU...

..créa la femme. According to Wiki, the French flick by Roger Vadim is widely recognised as the vehicle that launched Brigitte Bardot into the epitome of sixties Oh la la. For Melvin of course, the vehicle in this picture would have done just as fine.

SATISFACTION

One of the many advantages of being into bikes is that you can dig The Stones and The Beatles. On the other hand, I still have to find proof of Keith Richards on two wheels. Classement Provisoire: 4 to 1 for the Liverpool team. Can't see what the Fab4 are riding, Mick however is sporting a Condor rig, by the 1948 London firm that outfitted both Tom Simpson and Bradley Wiggins and is still very much alive.

HELP!

Ringo, George, John & Paul in the movie Help! from 1965. They also wet themselves.