5 Vintage Cycling Arrivals to celebrate Tour de France!
Tour de France enters stage 19, with just two days to go. The gallery has acquired five vintage cycling posters from the 1950s and 1960s that catch the energy and power of the sport.
Posts Tagged ‘Peace Race’
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Peace Race Cycling 1960, 1961 and 1962
The Peace Race was an annual multiple stage bicycle race held in the Eastern Bloc states of Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Poland. First organized in 1948, it was originally created with the intent of relieving tensions existing between Central European countries following the interwar period and World War II. Maintained by the three states ruling Communist parties’ newspapers (Rudé právo, Neues Deutschland and Trybuna Ludu), it was dubbed to be the “world’s biggest amateur cycling race” and “Tour de France of the East”.
Below are the event’s original posters from 1960, 1961 and 1962.
