Tour de L’ Avenir 1978
Tour de L’ Avenir 1978. First Time for USA Sitting on the grassy hill overlooking the Velodrome at Kenosha Wisconsin while watching the Track national Championships Eddy B comes by to ask me if I am interested in being the Soigneur for the national team at the Tour de L’ Avenir which is starting in […]
April 1973 Central Park Over Slept.
Overslept! Cannot believe in 2 years of getting up early for races I finally did it. Still raining out, but it stopped for awhile and I got out for 2, 1/2 hours and wrote 50 miles in my training diary, but there were no computers at this time, so I was over guesstimating. I felt […]
Notes from Wrong Branch Saloon Christmas Eve 1974
Notes from Christmas Eve 1974 Bill Humphreys Written at Wrong Branch Saloon in Julian, California Up at 6am in North Park, cold so I put on knee socks, leg warmers, shorts and knickers 3 short sleeve wool t-shirts a cotton jersey, one long sleeve wool jersey gloves and on the road to Julian […]
Letter To Karl Barton, President Raleigh USA 1974
Dear Karl, December 10, 1974 Just thought I’d let you get to know a little more about one of Raleigh’s “A” Team riders. Enclosed is a copy of my Sponsorship Form. I must point out that 1974 was only second complete season of racing. But like my first season, it was one of total immersion. […]
Spent my last $/Off Season Job
Determined to stay fit this off season and get a head start on making the Pan American Games team later that summer I had managed to escape another winter as a ski bum in Vermont and got myself back out to San Diego where this whole odyssey started. It had been a tough season with […]
Once I was 7 years old
So the song goes that I hear on the truck radio as I make my deliveries around New England & New York each week. Tomorrow I will be 73 years old, and it will be a busy day starting at 2:42AM when my alarm goes off. I have my early morning routine down tight at […]