While trolling ebay the other day I happened

across these original press photos for sale.

Luckily the vendor had nice big good quality images.

 I thought I would share them here, before they

go off to their new private collections.

Enjoy

DRINK,SMOKE - BE FIT

Left to Right;

Brik Schotte,Gino Bartali,Fiorenzo Magni,Pino Cottur,
Louison Bobet Fausto Coppi and Ferdi Kubler. 
Between them they won,

seven World titles, eight Tours of France
 and eleven Tours of Italy.