Originally Posted by
JeffOYB
All hail Mike Walden.) They didn't cost much, but were priceless (I don't even recall dues being anything more than negligible). And we certainly mopped up thanks to them. The teams without a coach definitely floundered significantly in various ways despite otherwise being similar or superior to us. We also rode in very bland terrain but that never held us back (we did enjoy low traffic...altho the main group in Detroit had a whole lotta bad to contend with).
I lucked out and have been the beneficiary of that legacy-- I got a lot of help from Roger Young out here on the track, and went from being a terminal cat 3 to making the scratch race final at elite nats. I actually grew up in the Detroit area when things were really rolling, but didn't know how to get into bike racing or have the money for it.