Re: [CR]Reynolds Numerology, was Geezers, etc.

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From: <rfitzger@emeraldis.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Reynolds Numerology, was Geezers, etc.
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:57:02 GMT

Man, that was quick! About three years back, I mentioned in some online forum or another that I wondered what ever happened to Mr. Sanders. A year or so later, I got an email from him - he'd been cruising through deja.com and stumbled onto my query. He no longer rides bicycles - apparently, he preferred motorcycles all along, anyway. He apparently was not fond of the folks who ran Bike World, either. He is apparently now a science fiction author living somewhere in the Southwest (New Mexico? Arizona?). He has a website, but I no longer have it readily available - different computer now, following a massive crash in 1999.

I may be bringing all sorts of grim, bad karma down upon myself by revealing his continued existence, though I suspect being a former cycling journalist isn't quite the same bag as being in the witness protection program - if I meet a gruesome end involving science fiction improbabilities with Native American style touches, you'll know how it came to be and why ...

I forgot, or perhaps never knew, that he was known as Sundown Slim. Didn't he also write an article about riding across the day and night to get to a friend's house to watch a race the next day, entitled, "Long Ride South?" The only bit I clearly was the line about his treasured Argus camera feeling like a kedge anchor is his handlebar bag ...

Russ
> so russ...what's the prize???????????
> Bike World
> November 1975
> page 38
> " Last Sprint of the Earth Games"
> by William Sanders
> whateva' happened to Sundown Slim, anyway!!
> e-RICHIE (send cash)
> ____________________________________________________________
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:52:53 GMT rfitzger@emeraldis.com write
>
> > for those of us who spend way too much time venerating velos.1970s bike
>
> trivia - the ONLY reference to the above book I have ever seen was
> in an old Bike World article written by a gentleman who informed me
> a couple of years ago that he now would deny ever writing for that
> publication.
> I won't name him, therefore - but if anyone wishes to speculate about
> who
> wrote articles on how to keep Simplexes working, or "Last Sprint at the
> > Earth Games,"
> > well, ...
> >
> > Russ Fitzgerald
> > rfitzger@emeraldis.com
> > Greenwood,
> > SC
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