Amusing old photos

[Repack Rider]

Before any of the mountain bike stuff happened, Gary Fisher and I were a couple of roadies sharing a house. He was a road racer, and I worked for a rock band, but I also rode bikes.

Somehow we acquired a Schwinn Paramount tandem, a perfect item in our house since a tandem was a great toy for taking less experienced friends on rides. It probably belonged to a another member of our bike club who didn't have room for it, because I know we didn't buy it.

One afternoon around 1975 Gary and I rode our tandem into Fairfax, about a mile and a half from our house in San Anselmo, where we encountered the person who posts on this site as FairfaxPat, playing frisbee in the town park.

Gary and Pat hammed it up on the bike, while I took a photo which now hangs on Pat's wall.

Following up on the tandem theme, I might as well post the photo from 1974 after the finish of a tandem criterium (!) where our club was represented by (from left) Joe Breeze and Otis Guy (1st), myself and Victor Pritzker (3rd).

 

[tintin40]

Great pictures. I was ten at that time :shock:

 

[Defiant]

Great pictures. I was ten at that time :shock:

I was 1 !

 

[Pickle]

Great pictures. I was ten at that time :shock:

I was 1 !

Well, in 1974 I was....... -5

 

[Repack Rider]

Great pictures. I was ten at that time :shock:

I was 1 !

Well, in 1974 I was....... -5

You guys are making me feel...old.

 

[Pickle]

Yea maybe, but you would probably kick my arse on the trail though!!!

 

[orange71]

You guys are making me feel...old.

damn I can't find your quote which said along the lines of "Some guys are just old before their time"... you're not old, you've just got more cycling under the belt!

 

[mrkawasaki]

Picture perfect

Ha! That's just one of many photos on Pat's wall that I wanted to steal when he was in the bathroom....

Heard about your big spill on the hill... when we gonna see the action footage?!

Mr K

 

[Repack Rider]

Re: Picture perfect

Ha! That's just one of many photos on Pat's wall that I wanted to steal when he was in the bathroom....

You probably would have got away with it. I hear that he stays in there for hours...

Heard about your big spill on the hill... when we gonna see the action footage?!

When Pat posts it. It was walking speed, so it didn't hurt, and Pat was trying out the camera for the first time, and didn't get much of a shot.

 

[Jimbolian]

Crikey.. i was'nt even a glint in my father's eye..

That may explain why my bikes are not all retro.. : )