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Old 10-04-12 | 06:47 PM
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From: Bellingham

Bikes: Felt F1X, Kilo WT, Dawes Deadeye

Today I went to an LBS in the little town of San Rafael, Costa Rica where I'm living for the semester. I saw this guy hanging up on the wall:

I hadn't seen another track bike the whole time I've been here so I asked the shopkeeper about it. He said it was his bike when he used to race. He trained in Cuba and has raced throughout North America including Quebec, Pennsylvania, San Jose, and a few other places. The bike was a Specialized lugged steel frame with Dura Ace components. It was high up so I couldn't tell everything. He gave me the name of a coach at the San Jose, CR velodrome and said if I mentioned him, he might let me try out a bike on the track! He said his racing career has been over for a while but apparently he was pretty good in his day. According to my host family his father was a mechanic for some Costa Rican national bike racing team.
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