Hey all,
>Message: 15
>From: "Thomas R. Adams, Jr." <KCTOMMY@msn.com>
>To: "stevens" <stevens@veloworks.com>,
>"Classicrendezvous_1" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: Who was Andy Hampstead (Was [CR]Re: Old Movies)
>Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:06:55 -0600
>Tom Adams wrote:
>Andy was a great American cycle racer, a contemporary of Greg Lemond
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>a winner of the maglia rosa in the Giro de Italia, in, I believe,
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>Andy's strength was his climbing, although of course he was a great all
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>round cyclist. I believe he was also a top five finisher in the Tour
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>France, but apparently never had the stamina to go "all the way" in Le
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>ur.
Andy's record in the major tours was amazing:
http://espn.go.com/
http://townsleyb.members.beeb.net/
Andy rode primarily for the 7-11 team, on lugged steel Merckx machin=
>es (classic content!) He may have held on into the team's change in
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>sorship to Motorola, when Lance Armstrong debuted.
Andy won the '86 Giro on a Huffy built by Serotta Bicycles, N.Y. It had True Temper tubing, with scalloped Henry James lugs (see Dec. 2000 in your Rivendell Lugs Calendar for a picture). It's my nomination for the greatest American racing bicycle ever built. I have one :-) Of course, there are rumors that all of Andy's racing bikes were, in fact, built by John Slawta of Landshark bicycles.
http://www.first-contact.demon.co.uk/
http://www.landsharkbicycles.com/
http://www.grahamwatson.com/
http://www.grahamwatson.com/
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
Off like a flock of turtles,
Stratton Hammon
Louisville, Kentucky, USA