Originally Posted by
CraigB
Whereabouts are you from? I hadn't seen one of those Vitesse jerseys in decades. I got my first aluminum bike, a Trek 1500, from their Peoria Heights store in 1989 (I was born and raised in Peoria). Spent a lot of time hanging out with the guys at that shop. I still count Sam Joslin as one of my best friends, even though I moved away 25 years ago.
My short Citizen's Class career included two years at the Bloomington, IL, race, the Galesburg one, once at Leroy, once in Crystal Lake, IL, once in Madison, WI, and once in Athens, GA, while visiting a friend in Atlanta. After that I decided most of the guys in those races really belonged with you, in Cat 4, so I abandoned my dreams of unlicensed glory.
I'm from the Peoria area. I raced for Vitesse from 1984 thru 1986 as a Cat 4 and Cat 3 and then from 1987 thru 1991 as a Cat 2 with MJF Racing. I'm pretty sure that I remember you from riding with the IVW.
You're an architect, right?
This was taken after 1989 cyclocross nationals in Milwaukee. Face look familiar, yet?
