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Cyclists

Thanks for adding so many pictures on articles of cyclists. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 10:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Well, some of the earlier photos were also from me, but not very good :) So it was time to exchange. --Nicola (talk) 10:44, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Tessie Reynolds

Hello Nicola,

Thanks for writing such a brilliant article on the German wiki about Tessie! We have attempted to write the English one but we are missing the source which was used on the German wiki. Do you have access to this and are you able to direct us to where you found it?

• Morgan E. Barlow: „Tessie Reynolds – a ‚Rational Activist‘“. In: Cycle History 23. Proceedings of the 23rd International Cycling History Conference, Roeselare, Belgium, May 2012. Hrsg. v. Dr. Andrew Ritchie und Gary Sanderson. Cheltenham 2013. S. 212–220

Thanks again, ツStacey (talk) 11:50, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Hello Staceydolxx|Stacey, thanks for the compliment!

Well, I attended that conference and heard the lecture of Morgan. I own the book, but it is stored in the moment. I will try to find one of the other attendees and ask them for a scan. ok?

Anyhow: If you import the German article into the English Wikipedia and translate into English you do not need access to the sources, because then my versions are kept. It means: You keep my versions and put your one on top :) But I will try to get the scans. --Nicola (talk) 12:09, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your speedy reply. We have already created the article now so can't import and to be honest I am really interested in reading the original text. If you could get a scan to us that would be fantastic - A perfect example of inter-wiki collaboration! Thanks again, ツStacey (talk) 12:16, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

A friend of mine from the States will do the scans within the next hours. He has having guests and he apologizes that it might take some time :) Please write an email to me so I can send the scans to you because Wiki-emails are not meant for attachments. --Nicola (talk) 14:24, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Staceydolxx|Stacey I sent you an email :) --Nicola (talk) 20:15, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

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Re: Thank you

It's taken me nine months to get around to adding them onto Commons, so sometimes it is worth the wait! I've been going through my Flickr page and changing the licences to a CC, non-Flickr one - but I'm choosing my best ones for each rider to be uploaded to Commons. QC is my short-code for quality check, but in fairness, I should be using Qualitätsprüfung! But thank you for the kind words! Craig(talk) 21:37, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

New message from Shearonink

Hello, Nicola. You have new messages at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cycling.
Message added 04:16, 7 August 2019 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Hope you can maybe help out with maybe getting photos of some of the early cyclists onto Commons or into WP - it's especially driving me (slightly!) nuts that I can't find a public domain/CC-BY-SA photo of Bert Harris... Thanks - Shearonink (talk) 04:16, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Shearonink. I have some old books that might contain photos of some of these guys, but Bert Harris might be a problem. I never heard about him and never read something about him. Please give me some time. --Nicola (talk) 05:56, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Nonsense. I wrote the article about him in the German Wikipedia :) de:Bert Harris There was a book about him, so they might be photos in there. There is a book about Bert Harris in this library (30 min by tram for me) [1], so I will have a try :) --Nicola (talk) 06:02, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Anything you can do would be awesome and finding a Bert Harris would be GREAT. One of the most famous figures in sports when he was alive & I've been unable to find a useable photo (for WP purposes) of him. (Even just finding a clearly-labeled as to origin photo has been difficult.) I've found mislabeled/bad-captioned photos online of some of these early cyclists so am very careful about using any of their claimed images. Shearonink (talk) 15:35, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Shearonink Have a look here: [2] --Nicola (talk) 18:15, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

I am absolutely gobsmacked. Thank you - they're all awesome & perfect. Shearonink (talk) 18:22, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

[3] - may be this one can be cut in a round form, but I do not know how to do it. Concerning Bert Harris: I ask for some patience, because I am busy and will go to the Junior World track championships next week. If you do not hear from me for longer, please remind me - sometimes I forget things :) --Nicola (talk) 18:40, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Whatever you can do and do in your own time is simply wonderful. When you do add any new pics, just ping me here so I can find your new files at the Special:ListFiles. Thanks again, Shearonink (talk) 18:46, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Okay - I will upload them after August 20th. --Nicola (talk) 18:47, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

I know you're busy right now but when you get a chance am here to ask for some help re List of cyclists with a cycling-related death.
There are 3 cyclists that only have a ref with no additional info for their Notes:

• Ernst Wolf - died October 29, 1907 (German/German Empire)
• Tim Johnson - died April 24, 1907 (UK)
• Hans Schneider - died January 1920 (German/Weimar Republic)

If you have access to any additional information on these three guys - maybe the track they died on, if it was a road road then the name of the event, if they were champions of some sort, for Schneider the date of his death, etc - that would be awesome. I have been trying to find more info on all the cyclists in the List but Wolf, Johnson, and Schneider are resisting my best efforts and their Notes are still blank. I am planning on submitting the List for an FLC at some point this fall and want to have everything fixed-up as much as possible before I do submit it. Thanks. Shearonink (talk) 21:13, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

I am still in Frankfurt (Oder), where I was at the Junior Track World Championships. I can say something already: Tim Johnson was a coach. He died in Berlin, Treptow velodrome, standing in the infield, where he was run over by a racing motorcycle. Somehow weird... --Nicola (talk) 06:55, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Oh wow. That's exciting! Sounds like fun to be at a World. Hope you did have fun.

I have come upon another issue. There are three cyclists who have a reference to different editions of Der Deutsche Radfahrer magazine but no page #s - Stefan Veger, André Raynaud, and Adrian Buttafocchi. Do you by any chance know what pages their information appeared on? I don't have access to Der deutsche Radfahrer and thought you might be able to find out which pages their info is on. Also, is the proper form Der deutsche Radfahrer or Der Deutsche Radfahrer? Thanks again for all your help - greatly appreciated. Shearonink (talk) 14:34, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Just checking to see how things are going. Liked your pics from the Junior Worlds that you've posted. I'll be somewhat out of contact over the weekend, but will catch up on Monday. Shearonink (talk) 16:45, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

@Shearonink: Sorry, I did not answer before but as you saw I am still busy with the photos. After that I will write to you. --Nicola (talk) 20:06, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

Just wanted to let you know that I've submitted the List as a WP:FLC, its candidacy is listed here. If you come across more information on the three cyclists whose Notes remain somewhat bare:

Ernst Wolf (October 29, 1907), Tim Johnson (April 24,1907), Hans Schneider (January 1920)

that is the most pressing issue at this point and I have been unsuccessful finding any more info than what is already there. I am going to get to the (fun!...) business of making sure *all* of the cite webs have archive-urls since that is the remaining major "unfixed" issue. Thanks & have a great weekend - Shearonink (talk) 19:37, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

@Shearonink: My, what a long discussion :)

Ernst Wolf: Sport-Album der Rad-Welt. Ein radsportliches Jahrbuch. VI. Jahrgang. Berlin 1908, p. 57-60

Hans Schneider: Sport-Album der Rad-Welt. Ein radsportliches Jahrbuch. 19. Jahrgang. Berlin 1922, p. 66-67

Tim Johnson: Sport-Album der Rad-Welt 1908. 8. Jg., Berlin 1909, S. 49. He died on October 13, 1907. There was a mistake in MY List. He was kind of strange guy, 60 years old when he died and had never been a cyclist himself, but a boxer. He was called "old Tim".

It is: "Der Deutsche Radfahrer" - if you send me an email, I could send you a scan. --Nicola (talk) 07:38, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Wow. THANK YOU for all the info.

• Unless you object I've taken Tim Johnson (boxer!) off of the list then...he wasn't a cyclist, looks like he was a spectator and we don't list out all the spectators that have died during races (for instance we don't list out all the individual people killed at the horrific Friedenau accident, the woman who mistakenly crossed the road in the middle of one of the Tour de France stages, etc).
• No email to confirm "Der Deutsche Radfahrer" is necessary but thanks for offering.
• If you could take a look at the List, some of the entries are lacking any photos (especially of the early cyclists). Public-domain photos of the ones from say the 1950s on dont seem to exist so that's just the way it is. But I was wondering if there are any images for the guys like Gustav Schadebrodt, Hans Bachmann, Hans Lange, August Kraft, Christian Oorlemans and so on. No hurry on this, I was just thinking if it's at all possible it would be nice someday...
• Also, when you get to it, the following three cyclists have an issue:

Stefan Veger, André Raynaud, and Adrian Buttafocchi.

Their cites are to different editions of Der Deutsche Radfahrer magazine but there aren't any page #s. Again, this is just for sometime if and when you have the time.

Thanks again for all your help. Shearonink (talk) 15:45, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

@Shearonink: Concerning Tim Johnson: He was a cycling coach, but it seems he never cycled himself. He was killed when standing in the infield of the velodrome and a motorcycle lost its direction, came off the track and killed him. The article about him says, that he coached Bourillon, Arend, Michael and Jacquelin, but he also coached a football club in Berlin. But he neverspoke any German :) And I am sorry, I made a mess with his death date: His accident happened in October, but he died in April 1909, but the accident was the reason, he never recovered. I will think of the photos, might take a while. --Nicola (talk) 15:57, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Ah ok... I think I'll leave him off the List then unless you think his name should be retained. Yeah, no hurry about the photos or the Veger/Raynaud/Buttafochi refs - whenever you get to any of it is fine. Shearonink (talk) 16:16, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

As you like :) still he was a victim of motor-paced racing (of which I am a big fan, btw). You will hear from me. --Nicola (talk) 16:24, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Hmmmm...I'll think about Tim Johnson then - after all, he was there in a professional capacity. I do hate to lose info & people from the List - there have been a couple names from early versions that were subsequently removed because no sources could be found...always made me a little sad (Otto Lutter was one...nobody ever found references for him). Shearonink (talk) 18:14, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

[4]. This is all I found :( --Nicola (talk) 09:15, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

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Have a question about some refs at List of racing cyclists and pacemakers with a cycling-related death

• Ref #79 is rendered as Sport-Album der Rad-Welt 1919, Vol. 18, 1920, page 56+. Berlin, Verlag Rad-Welt. Do you have any idea what 56+ means? Someone's asked me in the Source Review for the List's FLC and I have no idea...
• Ref #12 is rendered as Das Stahlrad, 1894, p. 850 f. Frankfort. I'm not sure what the f. stands for - maybe place of publication? (butam not certain). If you have ay insight, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 05:58, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Good morning. "56+" ought to be "56", just a mistake, I assume.

Good morning to you too :-). Ok, thx for the 56 info.

Das Stahlrad (steelbike) is one of the first bicyle magazines in Germany ever. "f." means "following pages" - it is usual in German books to use this. --Nicola (talk) 06:01, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Oh? I didn't know that - makes sense. I think I'll have to take out that f. though because I don't know how many pages more the following pages might be, and just leave the pages as p. 850. Thanks for everything - Shearonink (talk) 14:28, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

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Justin Grace

Hi Nicola. Please see Justin Grace. Thanks! Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 07:33, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Great! Thank you! --Nicola (talk) 07:34, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

No problem. If you need any more creating, just drop me a note. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 08:24, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

@Lugnuts: No, not right now :) But I made a lot of new photos c:Category:Files by User:Nicola/Radsport/Apeldoorn 2021. --Nicola (talk) 08:37, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

Amazing work with all those photos! Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 08:38, 24 September 2021 (UTC)

And thanks for taking a pic of Zoe Bäckstedt. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 08:27, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

@Lugnuts: You are welcome - the other girls like Flora Perkins, Millie Couzens and Madelaine Leech were in Apeldoorn, too. We will use these photos very soon, I am sure. --Nicola (talk) 08:30, 25 September 2021 (UTC)

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