He was longly inside our top10, longly our best french BIG-member in the general classification, with more than 400 bigs. He was above all a long long travel rider, globe-trotter. He tried one year to reach 50.000 km a year and he was very near to have success. He created the "centrionales" in France. A friend of him tells that one day after 200km non stop, he suggests him to have a small break and that Patrick answers "already now ?". He was an adventurer and a mystic person, someone very special but plenty of humanity and thirsty of knowledge all over the world.
On his bike, yesterday, 27th of november 2012, 70 years old, a tractor hurt him and spent him to follow his ride and his climbs in the sky. We have lost an indian prince of cycling...
You can watch a film about him and his adventures HERE .
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