Originally Posted by markwesti

Very cool bikes DMC , back in the late 70s' I was renting a house about a mile from the Balboa park/ Encino velodrome area . At that time I had a Gitane road bike, my buds and I would strip down our road bikes and hop the fence at the VD and ride . None of us had the money for a real VD bike , on race night we would get a bottle of wine and sit in the stands . Those were some good days .