are you talking about the Ride to Conquer Cancer?
its a charity double century from toronto to niagara falls over 2 days. Steve Bauer will be riding and not taking a dime. yes you need to raise a minimum of $2500 to participate.

http://to09.conquercancer.ca/site/Pa...me=to09_course

I had a red Steve Bauer bike a long time ago!

+1, and can't really think of P-R without thinking of both of them. I'll be rooting for GH this year, again.

I believe the OP is talking about this ride:

http://www.ride4unitedway.com/

For those out east of Toronto, it used to be the Oshawa Cycling Club's "Scugog Circle Century". This year's route is changed completely from what the old Circle Century route used to be.

I'm looking forward to it.

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5946/occ.png

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/3797/occ2.png

I think Bauer was still doing a few low profile races here and there in 07/08. Still pulling solid results if I remember correctly.

This is the ride I'm talking about and it's not like I have to pay $2500 to ride with him. He charges way less than that for his tours around Niagra. This charity ride encourages getting donations but not a requirement just register, pay up and ride.

here is a better memory of Bauer when he held the yellow jersey in TDF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTHhW...e=channel_page

Bauer looks massive in comparison to someone like Delgado and Hampsten in this video. Great find.

I uploaded a lot of the 80's videos to youtube..

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=...09&view=videos
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=...ideos&start=20

Thanks socal - this is going to keep me up all night - fantastic!

Thanks for all the videos guys this is awesome. I remember when Dad brought home my first roadbike and man I was Steve everywhere I went. Too bad the only time I saw him was on Wide World of Sports and that was very little. Do seem to remember watching him do some races around Toronto somewhere?

Road and elbowed Criq into the barriers at the '88 World Road Race!

Not to hijack but Phil Anderson was awsome.

Phil was the first racer I can ever remember actively cheering for.

I remember going into Toronto to see him beat everyone at the Queen's Park crit that was part of the Canadian Tire series.

That's what I remember than. I saw it on T.V and thought man this is amazing, then I got my driverls licience followed by a nicotine habit and beer belly. 20 years later the bike came back to me. I also think he may have done something at Mosport Speedway once. That place is a blast a few of us have got out there on our bikes, I'm hoping to this year.

Hi,

I know I have his autograph somewhere from one of the Coors Classics starts in San Francisco when he was riding with La Vie Claire. I always liked him and wish that he had gotten one of those breakthrough wins, like Paris Roubaix.

It's too bad that the Worlds were in, say, Belgium that year. If any other place I think it would have been quickly dismissed, but instead it dragged on for years before being... dismissed. Criq was a Belgian hero at the time, the only really "great" rider they had at the time. Imagine if, say, a foreigner knocked over Lance in Tour of CA, and partly because Lance tried to squeeze through a tight gap?

Looking at the pictures from after the race, I think Bauer is more disappointed than Criq. Criq took a dumb line and when he got bumped (to me it looks inadvertent) he couldn't deal with it.

Heh I just remembered Bauer is probably the first guy to use an 11T effectively in a TT in the Tour. Damn him! He took the yellow by a second I think. Or lost it. Or something. Everyone used to use 56x12s but he used a Suntour cassette that started 11-13 (made really for mountain bikes), sacrificing the 12T to get the elusive 11T. I dunno if all that big gear mashing slowed him up a bit but I pedal like that now. Just with much less force.

Comparing his sprint in the Worlds to one of his earlier sprints (like 1983? Baltimore US Pro, or in the Tour du Pont 10-whatever years later), even his TTs, he pedals slower later in his career.

cdr