7-Eleven sponsorship definitely began with the 1981 season... I remember racing them that year at Superweek (Wisconsin), The Lowenbrau Series, and Red Lobster (Cincinnati). They were the newest biggest squad at the time. Davis Phinney was on the team. Steida too, I think. Steve Bauer was not... at least not in 1981, when he was still with Fred Mengoni's "G.S. Mengoni" team.
Aldo Ross
(1980? Don't get me started!)
Blue Ball, Ohio
> In a message dated 8/5/2004 8:08:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> richardsachs@juno.com writes:
>
> << 7-11 started several years after dat.
> mebbe at late as 81. no?
> and didn't heiden begin wit dem afta
> the placid lake (1980) thingy? >>
>
> 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!?
>
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