anyone here ride the saturday morning rides with gene carr late'70's-early '80's?
anyone here ride the saturday morning rides with gene carr late'70's-early '80's?
Oh man what a flashback. I knew Gene a bit, not closely. Early 80's I was mostly riding with the RBTC which became the GDB, but I later raced for the TRC which U cycle / Bud Melton sponsored.
"If there is one thing I know about bike racing, it's that people on bike forums would have done it better."
- an internet post
Gene was born in Dalhart and as a boy shook hands with the famous Texas rancher Charles Goodnight. Lucille grew up in the valley on the Rio Grande and remembered as a girl during the Mexican revolution having a group of fellows ride up to her (uncle?)'s store wearing sombreros and bandoliers. They met at a dance at the Baker Hotel in downtown Dallas during prohibition, where Gene said you could order a pot of "tea" (gin).
"When man first set woman on two wheels with a pair of pedals, did he know, I wonder, that he had rent the veil of the harem in twain? A woman on a bicycle has all the world before her where to choose; she can go where she will, no man hindering." The Typewriter Girl, 1899.
"Every so often a bird gets up and flies some place it's drawn to. I don't suppose it could tell you why, but it does it anyway." Ian Hibell, 1934-2008
I rode with the "visit strange places" group out of University Cycle, or whatever the ride was called. We would go lots of different places, no real destination in mind other than to do our miles, and find some good bakeries and lunch spots. We went to lots of places all over Dallas that I didn't even know existed.
when was this, most of the time we rode pretty much the same route. at least when gene was leading, after he was no longer able to ride, other leaders took us in different directions.Originally Posted by bjtesch
This was in the middle to late 1980's. George Osbourne was usually leading the ride.
past my time, sounds like it was a fun ride though.
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