Originally Posted by hmarcus60

Ah yes!!!! The young lady's name was Maria!! Seemed like a great time to be a bike racer. The new equipment can't be touched by the old stuff, but I'm sure that every rider of any era will say that the equipment that they used had a certain charm and a look that the parts that superseded it cannot approach. This thread is just opening up a torrent of nostalgia from my racing days in the 1980's