79roncooper

anyone here ride the saturday morning rides with gene carr late'70's-early '80's?

Creakyknees

Oh man what a flashback. I knew Gene a bit, not closely. Early 80's I was mostly riding with the RBTC which became the GDB, but I later raced for the TRC which U cycle / Bud Melton sponsored.

tcs

Gene was born in Dalhart and as a boy shook hands with the famous Texas rancher Charles Goodnight. Lucille grew up in the valley on the Rio Grande and remembered as a girl during the Mexican revolution having a group of fellows ride up to her (uncle?)'s store wearing sombreros and bandoliers. They met at a dance at the Baker Hotel in downtown Dallas during prohibition, where Gene said you could order a pot of "tea" (gin).

bjtesch

I rode with the "visit strange places" group out of University Cycle, or whatever the ride was called. We would go lots of different places, no real destination in mind other than to do our miles, and find some good bakeries and lunch spots. We went to lots of places all over Dallas that I didn't even know existed.

79roncooper

when was this, most of the time we rode pretty much the same route. at least when gene was leading, after he was no longer able to ride, other leaders took us in different directions.

bjtesch

This was in the middle to late 1980's. George Osbourne was usually leading the ride.

79roncooper

past my time, sounds like it was a fun ride though.

79roncooper

usually we ended up at kuby's for lunch.