Tour of Flanders - Gitane Wins

[sandranian]

With the Tour of Flanders coming this Sunday...I wondered to myself if Gitane had won that race. Certainly a Gitane must have, but I couldn't think of any rider who had done it (recently). So...I did some research, and here are the preliminary results. Please help if you can clarify, correct, or add to it!

1961 - Tom Simpson (GB) (Rapha-Gitane-Dunlop)
Pic: http://www.universalcyclecentre.co.uk/tom.htm
1964 - Rudi Altig (BRD) (Saint Raphael-Gitane-Dunlop)
Pic: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_I4Snyzw2IMM/S ... /altig.jpg


Surprised Hinault never won it, although he wasn't a fan of cobbles....

[verktyg]

Here's a photo of Tommy Simpson's 1961 Gitane.

[sandranian]

If I recall, that restoration came complete with the broom handle shoved down the steerer tube!