Police on bikes in ParisPolice patrolling the streets of Paris are to take to their bicycles again, restoring a presence on the local scene that was immortalised in dozens of films until they switched to mopeds in 1984.Police chief Philippe Massoni told reporters on Tuesday the slow-moving bicycle policemen would be used mainly to patrol the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes forests adjacent to the capital and pedestrian areas along the river Seine. The bicycle cops, who numbered about 2,000 in 1950, were commonly dubbed ``swallows'' because of their billowing short black capes. They were replaced by colleagues on mopeds in the 1980s. But officials found the mopeds travelled too fast, and that only patrolling fixed beats on foot or bicycle allowed close surveillance of the street scene. Naaldwijk, Omloop van de Glazenstad, Elite and Neo-amateurs.
1. Theus (Bergeijk, Giant-Lowik-P&O) 160 km in 3.54,10
2. Tommy Post (Breda, De Hoekse Renners)
3. Charles Overgaag ('s-Gravenzande, Rabobank)
4. Matthe Pronk (Warmenhuizen, De Jonge Renners)
5. Remco Van der Ven (Nieuwegein, Agu)
6. Gerben Lowik (Tubbergen, Giant-Lowik-P&O)
7. Wilco Zuyderwijk Zuyderwijk (Poeldijk, Van Vliet)
8. Eric Hoevenaars (Gilze, De Jonge Renner)
9. Rene Post (Dodewaard, Europolis)
10. Edwin Ophof (Raalte, Giant-Lowik-P&O)
Dwars door Belgie1. Andrei Tsjmil (Mold) 2. Ludovic Auger(Fr) 0.30 3. Hans de Clerq (Bel) Waregem-Tiechem-Waregem, Belgium, Cat 1.71 Johan Bruinsma (NL) Rabobank 2 Daniel van Elven (NL) Rabobank |