Regional Club Sponsorships (jerseys)
The sponsor’s name across the front and back of the cycling jersey was the significant difference between us as racing cyclists and the mainstream team sports in this country. It…
Hand to Mouth
New talent and unknown locals with different jerseys were always lying in wait, on starting lines from Greensboro,N.C., to Fitchburg, Mass. Cyclists who traveled the Eastern Seaboard from Florida to…
Club Jerseys
Around 1972, in official recognition of the naturally impoverished state of American bicycle racers, who were not allowed to race for cash, the Amateur Bicycle League of America finally allowed…
J P chapter 1 “The Jersey Effect”
In Europe, kids grow up putting on local club cycling jerseys, just like kids in America grow up putting on Little League uniforms. Bicycle racing is ingrained in the European…
From: “The Jersey Project”
Most folks who bought my book, "The Jersey Project," now out of print, (Thank you) thumbed through the pages to look at all the jerseys and remenisce. Then it was…
Meeting “Fritz”….South Africa
I met Fred Kuhn on that fateful day, 2 years ago when Dave Chauner the two time Olympic track rider who worked at Kopp’s gave me a ride to Princeton.…
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…
Diary Notes from trip 72/flashforward to 73
Bike Guy’s Notebook from Ride Across USA & Canada Day #42 August 11, 1972 Sleep on picnic bench in Trois Rivers which is the half way point of a…
Could be Chapter One?
This might be: Chapter 1 Opening Page When I first heard about an upcoming reunion of my old teammates on the Raleigh Team to be held July 4th…
A Horse With No Name
“I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name” After a year and a half of riding my bike everywhere and trying to break into the racing…