Originally Posted by
big chainring
Chris Springer Intermediate champ. Then Junior champ and a suspension that ended his racing career. Interesting story regarding the Super Week and Nationals antics at the Milwaukee School of Engineering dorms. Different times for sure - housing teenagers with no adult supervision. Good story if you google it.
I raced on the road against him twice.
won one, lost one.
officially lost two.
initial match up was at the Butterfly Criterium in Nor Cal. I thought I had won, so did everyone else, 1st place awarded to Springer at the prize ceremony.
thank you Bob Tetzlaff
about a month later a spectator hands me a photograph, “ here, you won, politics man”
image showed my front wheel across the line enough ahead as there should not have been a question. I did lead out the sprint and was maxed, Chris was accelerating but not that fast. A lesson in NorCal / SoCal politics.