Track & Road Racing Pictures
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On the podium during a Friday night track race with my team mate Matt Chambers after winning the madison team race....I
don't think I ever rode with a better partner than Matt. I owe him many victories! |
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1991 Olympic Sports Festival, los Angeles, ca. This is a 50 kilometer points race, 150 laps with a sprint every
5 laps....yea it hurt, I won by lapping the field three times! This shot shows me leading a small group of riders
on what was my second lapping of the field |
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April 22, 1979, I'm winning a National Prestige classic event. NPC races were the toughest criteriums to win. In
this case, 150 racers started a 50 mile race in a pouring rain. I managed to avoid all the crashes, broke away
and beat this small group in the sprint. Being a national team member back then I was wearing a USA national team
jersey |
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August 1978 Munich Germany, world championship 50 kilometer points race final. I'm leading a group containing three
future world champions and other animal cyclists....that's why my heads down because I'm going so fast I'm trying
to get as aero as possible. I finished 15th, becoming the first american to finish a points race at the worlds.
This track was just beautiful to see and race on. It was 278 meters, banked to 48 degrees in the turns and was
about 30 feet high |
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I'm about to start the kilometer time trial in the world championships. Despite being surrounded by men in suits,
I don't really notice them.....kilo's are real nerve wracking....I guarentee you I'm about to explode right about
there. This ride would get me 12th place and would be a U.S. kilo record for about 5 years |
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June 1976 While on my way to making the Olympic team that year I also won a few road races. This was a Nor Cal
criterium and late in the race Mark Vandetti who was a up and coming road racer broke away and looked like he had
the victory in the bag. On the last lap I was closing incredibly fast, but looked like I wasn't going to be able
to catch him. I never backed off though, and was rewarded by Mark throwing his hands up about 30 feet before the
finish line. I shot past in that instant....you can see his hands are on the way down and my arm on the way up!
In the back ground you can see Nic Farats-Ban in the National champions Jersey watching from the infield in amazement |
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Far west track championships in Encino California, Oct. 1978. This is a match sprint race final and I'm on the
outside attacking my Schwinn team mate, Kurt Miller. This photo was taken coming out of turn 4 with 1 lap to go.
I really liked this photo because it shows me at full speed and Kurt has yet to realize how fast I'm going. I passed
Kurt but he nipped me at the line for the win. I lost this one, but went on to win the overall championship. The
Far west was the last big event of the season and it was a nice way to end the year. |
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Just so nobody thinks I'm perfect! This is a good shot of what I looked like when I used to have a bad day at the
office. The track is Trexlertown and this is a Friday night track race probably in late june or so. This event
was a "miss and out" and I'm definetely out. Jack Simes is about to give me a hand |
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