Re: [CR]Was: dating switch from 5 to 6 speed, now 7-11 team?

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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 19:53:12 -0500
Subject: Re: [CR]Was: dating switch from 5 to 6 speed, now 7-11 team?
From: "Todd Kuzma" <tullio@theramp.net>
To: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>, <richardsachs@juno.com>
In-Reply-To: <12d.47a52b78.2e4428ce@aol.com>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

on 8/5/04 7:20 PM, OROBOYZ@aol.com at OROBOYZ@aol.com wrote:
> Wow! I am bad on dates but Eric H was definitely there at that Stage race and
> it doesn't seem that it was in the 1980s. Seems like 7-11 was in 76-77 but
> what-the-hell-do-I-know. Ha! So we had 5 speeds that late? Shows what a low
> budget outfit we had.
> One of us will surely know when 7-11 started!?

I saw the 7-11 team at the Chicago Cycling Classic in 1980, but I don't believe that Heiden was with the team. I recall seeing the Stetina brothers. I think John Howard skipped the race, but I believe Sean Kelly was there.

I saw the crit around the Art Institute. It was won by a certain Greg Lemond.

Todd Kuzma
Heron Bicycles
Tullio's Big Dog Cyclery
LaSalle, IL
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