I don't doubt it.

not in the East Germans or Neiwand's class, though.

She was married sometime around '85 and so her name changed to Inga Benedict.

I'm just curious about her since if memory serves she got on a bicycle in April of '84 and was selected very soon after that for the women's Olympic Team. That was pretty impressive. So I wonder what ever happened to her and if her kids ever got the bug.

I am loving this thread. I wanted to get into racing in high school back in the 80's, but there was no cycling scene in my po-dunk town, so I lost interest. I was all about the Coors Classic gear. The little biker hats and T-shirts and what-not. Once, while on vacation to Colorado, we stayed at the same hotel that Mark Gorsky (track rider?) and whomever was in that group was staying at in CO Springs. I got to look at their cool bikes. I remember Rebecca Twigg and Connie Carpenter-Phinney (are she and Davis still married?). Nelson Vails was an animal.

One time on a leg press machine I lifted 600 lbs. I was sort of surprised to say the least. Never even gotten close to that again. And I always wondered if that machine was mismarked.

Leg press is a waste of time....use it to show off to chicks.

Multiply your squat (ATG...not this 1/4 bend rubbish that seem popular with kids these days) by 4. This should roughly equal what you can do on the sled for reps.

Shifty, I believe he had an older brother that lived in Eugene. Ronnie I think his name was. It was always a hoot to ride with him.

Too true. I only use it when my back begins to give out after squatting too much.

last I knew, Andy Bishop was living in Vermont, and racing mountain bikes for Gary Fisher. course, this was a few years ago.

i believe he even rode our local Crank the Kanc hillclimb a few years ago.

The second part of that sentence cancelled out the first part.

OK, so here's the response I got from my insider who used to be very close to Inga:

Last I heard, Inga was living on the Oregon/Idaho border on a small ranch. She was always quite interested in horses.

Thomas Prehn is the marketing head for Cat Eye.

Lol...true!!

Yahoo! They all ended up being stuck as a "normal". Lance will NEVER make it to that.

additional firings:

1) guy who okay'd the colors

2) guy who hired the guy who okay'd the colors

3) hairstylist

(never ever ever understood the whole Koffee Brown fiasco; was it a fiasco). Whatever happened to Koffee Brown? Who was Koffee Brown? Not knowing anything has had me really curious. Seems like the whole board was in on it 'cept for moi.

Is she cute or sumpn?

She posted today over there ..

All that stuff was hot back then. Didn't you see the Wedding Singer?

So Davis Phinney and Connie Carpenter must be pretty proud and happy tonight. Way to go Taylor, nice win today

Inga Thompson today with her son on their ranch in Halfway Oregon. She's still such a beautiful woman.

Woody Harrelson had a sex change?

[QUOTE=carpbum;3574452]Wow. I was at the Aspen Music Festival in 1984 (?) and was winching myself up the Maroon Bells road when Alexi blasted past me, sitting down, maybe even on the big chainring. Pretty amazing at the time, kind of hard to believe that he's just another guy on a bike now.

The speed that Pro racers can make and hold is completely outside of the understanding of normal riders. When you see these play-racers standing up and passing you at 2 mph faster than you are going (25% faster maybe) you know that they are play-racers. Watching Pro's go up an 8% grade in the big ring and small cog is staggering. They actually ride near 40 mph for hours.

So I have quite a disgust for play-racers whose interest is in passing someone they can see ahead of them. It's like driving on the freeway and watching someone drive 20 mph over the speed limit just to catch up to the traffic jam ahead of you.

You have brought much hate to this zombie thread.

No kidding. What an off the wall out of no where comment!

I see one of those play-racers at work. Or are you one of those real slick people on the freeway doing way over the speed limit in the slow lane and cutting people off because you have such fine judgement?

Yeah...25% faster on a climb is a lot. Really a lot.

And what exactly is a play racer? Someone who doesn't actually race? We used to call them fast recreational riders.

Anyone who passes you is a "play racer" and anyone who you pass is a "poseur" or a "fred" depending on how they are dressed and what they are riding.

Wut?

Did you forget to take your meds today?