Your friend writes well, and I am enjoying the reading. In one article he mentions Velo Club - Berkeley and it brought back a memory of meeting them on a ride up Grizzly. I had no clue who they were, and I thought I was climbing the hill quite well until they came alongside with encouraging words and quickly went up the road. Not much of a meeting, but it inspired me to get into racing, which I did for many years after that. Never won a thing, but those days when the feeling of being "ON" and unstoppable came, those were the days that kept me pursuing the racers dream of beating the competition. Looking forward to more reading.