[CR]What did you ride as a teen?

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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:18:04 -0500
From: "L Travers" <lat7575@swbell.net>
Organization: CV-6 Enterprises
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]What did you ride as a teen?


Guess I will fess up.

Went to the local Wards and plunked down $98 for a no name 10-speed and went to show it to my friends. Well...I quickly learned what a heavy POS I had bought. You see my best friend rode a chrome Schwinn Paramount. Rode the POS for a year in college...no one would want to steal it, right? Wrong. Coughed up $175 for a teal colored Grand Touring Motobecane. Replaced the Huret rear derailleur with a Suntour V-GT. Shortly after, I was bitten by the racing bug and bought the Lejeune Pro that I still have. Wish I still had the Motobecane.

One memory of the GT. I stayed in Columbia one summer and worked at a local pizzeria. Often closed which meant I rode the Moto home about 0200 along US 63. Climbing a hill one night, I hear a pickup come up behind me, slow, and stay behind. He had plenty of room to pass, so I was just a bit concerned. A few more minutes and he pulls up beside me, passenger window comes down and I wait for the beer bottle or whatever to come flying out. I am just about to slam on the brakes when I hear.... "23 up the hill. Prettty good." And off he goes.
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Lynn Travers
Hazelwood, MO