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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer
Not my project actually  but I'll find out what freewheel was salvaged ...
And surely a candidate for strangest bike race ever was the Bordeaux-Paris (last run in 1985). It started at 3AM and covered 570K's in one day! The last half or so was motor-paced behind small motorbikes. Each rider had 2 motorbikes, one taking over as the other re-fueled. I think the race was limited to around 20-25 riders.
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One has to be nuts to ride behind a derny. Well, one of my dreams was to ride a derny, not as a bike racer but a derny rider. I had honda 50cc scooter while attending college. I was able to fit a 24 inch roller 1" off my wheel and motor pace the bastards on my training ride. it was fun and we averaged about 30 mph for our 3+ mile loop 10 times. Many of them hung on for the whole ride. One day, the cops showed and put a stop to that. I played dumb and claim a bunch of bike rider were tailgating me and I could not go any faster to get away from them. He wrote a couple of tickets to the guys.