Any cyclists here?

you do know g-man. he is a nut, i think he is one of the coolest guys to ever push the pedals. and btw, he would have cleaned gag's clock! would have been good to see. i saw g-man set marty nothstein aside at first charter (shelby ,nc) crit whn marty came across g's front wheel and nearly take him out! i thought that g-man was gonna fight him right then and there. btw, have you seen gag's new (sorta new) wife? wow!!!

 

I think I met her at Interbike 2002. Was he with her then? I just figured it was one of his PR stunts.

BTW, that sounds like Marty. I did some race in Arizona or Nevada or some place like that in 2001 and Marty was on Mercury. We had specific instructions not to warm up on the main road as we had a special place to warm up. Well, guess who's out there anyway. That's right. So a cop pulls up to Marty and he's like, " you can't ride on this road." And Marty mouths off, "You can't tell me that! Don't you know who I am?!" Well the cop got pissed and went straight to the organizers. When we were on the line, they called out his number and made him come to the front of the pack and absolutely LAMBASTED him in front of all of us. Jonas had to hide his face because he was busting up so hard. I kept jabbing him to knock it off because I was losing it. Anyways, MArty got kicked out of the race for that.

 

yes , she was at inter bike in 02 w/ gag and rodisha. she was memorable yes!?

 

Memorable enough for me to think that Gaggioli was trying to pull something. She was pretty hot.

 

lol ryan, talk to ya later.

pcb

 

Talk to you later. I would really like to see pics of your 888 Corsa. That is the most visceral bike Ducati ever made.

 

Ryan,

You're a trackie! I was a track rider also, but a sprinter. I couldn't climb to save my life. I raced T-town a couple of times, but as a California sprinter, it was a long ways away to make the pilgrimage often. Your career was much more successful than mine, but I loved bike racing and did it full time for a couple of years. When I returned to the work force, my resume read "full time amateur cyclist"....had to account for the 2 years somehow. I was lucky enough to spend a month at the OTC, set some local 200m TT records, went to the olympic trials in Houston in 1988 in the match sprint, won 1, lost 3, which is top 12 (tied for 9th?), and raced against all your old guys, including Roberto Gaggioli. Now that Italian had a wicked finishing kick, you guys should have seen him in his younger years. And when I raced, wheels had spokes and Nothstein and Armstrong were just a couple for gangly juniors.

Agreed, Roger Young is a cycling god. When I was racing, he was at Major Taylor in Indy. His wife was an world champion if I recall correctly.

My best friend, as a bike racer, got me into cycling over 20 years ago. We both have since moved onto Ferrari's, so I guess there is a trend going on here. In fact, he told me that at our Ferrari mechanic, he ran into Chris Huber, who was a noted pursuit rider 15 years ago. Who would have thought bike racing would be a stepping stone to F cars....must have been all those Campy components.

 

I've always wanted a Colnago. Not that a fat middle aged man who is out of shape needs one but they are beautiful.

 

It's not about need. Although if you want to get in shape, get a bike that you love. You'll want to ride it more.

 

Ctanner, that's awesome. I ran into Chris when I was in Palo Alto last fall.

F-cars and Ducatis. All the things I lusted after but couldn't have until I stopped racing. Yep, it's those campy components - with their "jewel-like finish."

I don't think that you ever lose your love for beautiful machinery, whether it be cars, motorcycles or bicycles.

BTW, while most of my international stuff was track, I was a pretty good one day road racer. I won a bunch of road races overseas and could reliably put down a sub 51 minute 40k. My PR is a 48:45 IIRC. Still never won an international TT but I was always up there.

 

as they say, a great fiiting bike is like a well tailored suit...if it fits great it will be a pleasure to ride/wear!

 

Actually, I shoud amend that to say that I was up in the standings many times, not always. God knows I got my ass kicked many a time.

 

Sorry. Didn't mean to name drop. My bad.

Seriously.

 

Saw this one leaving a certain courthouse with tin cans tied to the sissy bar!

DL

 

I have a Kona titanium mountainbike for sale, if your interested call me #1-360-431-8705. Its new.

 

you go rob!!

hey, again i must say, it really is nice that we are all so like in our interests beyond ferraris.

if we could just get politically in line...? lol!!!

 

Well that's the best part about Ferrari chat (and sort of Ferrari ownership in general). Lots of us share the same interests outside of just Ferraris and it's nice to be able to share it.