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I ran into Roger Young (not so famous in Europe or down your way), American track star, Olympian, of the late 70s. He was in all of the few cycling books in our library. I was walking out of an old friend's house (he sells old air cool parts for a living). I see this old dude loading an old steel road bike in the back of his car so naturally I had to walk by and say hello and check out his old bike. He said he was Roger Young, My eyes lid up and has to ask, the Roger Young, track rider? He smiled and nodded and said with a very surprise look, "You know me?" AFter chatting for a couple minutes, he invited me for a ride later in the week. On the ride, there were lots of questions from me about those early days of racing internationally for Americans. He thought it was funny that when he was riding Worlds and Olympic track races, I wasn't able to ride a bike straight yet.
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