A brief look back at the history of the Tour de France shows how impressive Lucien Buysse's performance was in 1926. It was the longest Tour de France ever (5,745 km, 2,275 km more than in 2020), with stages averaging 338 km (now less than 200 km), on bicycles without gears, with stage starts in the middle of the night (the riders rode the first hours in the glow of the lights of the follow-up vehicles), ... and for almost everything the riders had to rely on themselves, including repairs to their bicycles along the way.
Yes, that tour was won by Wontergem Lucien Buysse.
Impressive, right?
That deserves a monument, his fellow villagers thought.
Source: matthiasvanmilders.be/lucien-buysse

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October 29, 2023

Lucien Buysse (actually: Buyze) (Wontergem, September 11, 1892 – Deinze, January 3, 1980) was a Belgian professional cyclist from 1913 to 1933.

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