You were a Cat 1 or 2 rider getting mixed up with the big boys in the national jersey. Who is that in the National Jersey? Around that time, I would guess its Roy Knickman?

Also, I noticed the sponsor's logos and that isn't just some local club names on the clothing, so that must be a pretty big and important race.

No, I was Cat 3 so I must have been taking pics of the 1/2 group before or after our race.

Great pictures, I only raced road bikes a few times and never the level you achieved.
Thanks for sharing and keep them coming.

I was a Cat 3 also. Went from riding JR for two years into cat 4. The 4s were easy to beat up and many were new to racing, plus, they had a day job. We were riding anywhere between 3-400 miles a week during those early days of college. The I,II races were a different animal, really fast and technical with a bit of team work to pull people back. We did lots of training rides with many Cat 2 and a couple of National riders. What a great time it was racing back in those days. I will try and see if I can find my old pictures and post them here. They should still be at my parent's house somewhere. Thanks for posting them. It sure brought back lots of memories.

Those were the days. Its a shame what road racing in the US has become, no way are you shutting a downtown down for a crit these days, not for the 20 guys that would show up.

^^^ So true. I was thinking of getting back into some racing last year (after being gone for decades). Started searching around for some road races in FL and found basically nothing! A few Fondos and that's it. Back in the 70s/80s you had your pick of races pretty much every weekend.

Yeah, my one and only race in Cat 3. I thought I was fairly good, but quickly realized these guys were way more serious about bike racing than I was :D That was my last race actually. Life got in the way!

They still do in Chico, CA, and it’s a ton of fun, even if you aren’t racing. One of the many things I miss about California.

https://www.chicostagerace.org/

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There are more racing then ever out here in socal but I have not been one in a very, very long time. We even have a world class track. The 84 Olympic track got ripped out and they built a new indoor wooden one. There are lots more people riding and training rides are all over place. We have some serious training rides 4 days out of the week if you want to get beat up and that is just 15-20 miles within my local area. I am not sure about closing down an entire downtown area, but we do have an ares of a couple miles closed off for crits. We do have a few pro level stages races our here as well. Unlike the old days, we didn't race every weekends, but only 6-7 times during the season.

We did have tracking racing back then every Friday or was it Saturday evenings. It was the 68 Olympic trials and Nationals. Concrete track, an old one but it was too much fun and I only did it for a couple years.

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Take your bikes and ride in next year's Wichita Falls Hotter'n Hell Hundred. They are expecting 13,000 riders this year. Expected high of 104.

https://www.hh100.org/

Some here will get this.
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So You Got Hit by a Car—Here's The Part Nobody Talks About
 

Some good advice in this video about what to do when you, or someone that you are with, should do in the event of being hit by a car.

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https://theradavist.com/2024-made-bike-show-part-01/

Hmmm, I'm not sure about this one. My initial thought was I really like the look! But then my engineer brain kicked in and started looking at the design and I think it's more form over function. And that's OK, but probably not my thing. Beautiful workmanship though and kudos for building something different!

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