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> Jamie Swan wrote:
Green and yellow was the team colors for the elite Tempo/Toga
Thunderbolts, sponsored buy Lenny Prehiem, part owner of Toga Bike
Shop in Manhattan. Many of the team bikes were made by Richard Sachs.
Lenny sold a lot of Richie's bikes back then.
The Toga squad was the premiere team in the metropolitan N.Y.C. area.Lenny would draft the top 6 to 10 riders and ruled over them with an iron fist. His most famous charge was Nelson "T-Bah" Vails, who went from being a N.Y.C. bike messenger to winning a silver medal in the sprints at the '84 Olympics in L.A. Buy me a beer and I'll tell you a few stories about him, including the time I rode a (miss) matched sprint against him. T-Bah used to wear his hair in corn-rows with green and yellow beads braided in. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
****lenny was also george hincapie's first <real> sponsor.
e-RICHIE
chester, ct