Mike Schmidt wrote:
> At our recent BVVW meeting in NYC, Steve Klein announced there would be
> tandem racing at T-Town this coming Sat eve, July 22.
> Now for the classic content: I have never watched tandem racing on
> a track. Are the tandems that are used for this type of racing,
> created using modern design with off topic materials, or ar
> e the tandems lugged or fillet brazed steel.
Well, Mike and a few of us met at the Velodrome last night with high expectations of finding out. time trials of a half dozen of the tandems
portend an exciting evening, but a rainstorm canceled them, the cyclists
raced in the afternoon today.
The final scratch race was between six tandems, the Tom Kellogg (fairly
local in the Lehigh VAlley) fillet orange frame claiming the earliest
build of all the bikes took the win. This particular fact was
announced a few times by the commentator during the race interestingly.
An irony was that one of the competitors was a purple Spectrum...
here are pictures...
http://studiofurniture.com/
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gabriel l romeu
chesterfield to trexlertown and back, nj/pa/nj, usa
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