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Show us your.....Race Numbers!
While trying to make some space in the garage, I unearthed a box with a bunch of bike memorabilia. For a long time, I saved every race number I got. Or got to keep. There were those promoters who asked for a deposit, usually your ABLA license, to ensure they go their numbers back for the next event. The one below was on the top of the stack. Tape tears around the edges, which meant it was used for a time trial. Where and when? Lost to the mists of time.. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...26895926e.jpeg |
Laurent Fignon
In memoriam to Laurent Fignon, his # 61.
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...fd1a7ba32e.jpg I got this as a bare frame from a seller in the UK. It had been raced by a Gitane sponsored amateur team in France in the early 1990's. Columbus ELOS tubing - very light but an almost harsh stiff ride. verktyg :50: |
From a race in the Central Valley. Calf Manna....now that is a nutritional supplement you don’t wanna miss https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...58c47b0bb.jpeg |
Lost, lost in all the moves. |
People who have ridden with me are sometimes surprised to hear that I race. In fact, I have a drawer full of race numbers. This is one of my favorites.
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Got one of those but it never made it into the box with the others Next up https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...2eb2ca396.jpeg |
Cino X wasn't actually a race, but they did give us race numbers. I think I may have been the 12th guy to sign up for it that year?
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Not a race, but I did have a number for D2R2 a few years back. https://i.imgur.com/Rz64VVq.jpg?2 I should sign myself up for a race at some point, aim to not be last. Or maybe get my ass in gear on some RUSA events. |
Another not a race.....but figure the odds on this happening. The top is from Eroica CA, the bottom Cino Heroica obviously.
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My only real race number
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...55dce7c47f.jpg
I had to get a one day racing license to ride in the High Cascade 100 MTB race. I had no illusions of actually racing but I did want to ride the 100 mile course which was over 80% single track around Mt. Bachelor in Oregon seeing it as a great challenge. I never was more than a casual mountain biker (who used it to ride with my son when he was boy) when I did this at age 55. I prepared for the race that spring and summer riding with 2 experienced buddies who had also joined up and was happy to be able to finish the course in 14 hours on what was easily the oldest bike on the course that day (Yo Eddy 26" hardtail). Man that was hard but also one of the most beautiful days I've ever had on a bike. I was so tired by the late afternoon that I began to hallucinate. All that exhaustion went away when I finally hit pavement and time trialed the last few miles to the finish line on pavement. I realized then just how mentally taxing all that single track riding had been. I haven't been on a MTB much since then but boy, what a great memory. |
I'm pretty sure that this was the first racing number I ever wore, shown following a rare local road race in rural, upstate NY around 1975.
The grand looking house across the street belonged to a local doctor, and my bike was a 1971 Raleigh Record having no alloy components beyond the handlebar stem, calipers, levers (and the replacement front wheel's hub shell). For foolish reasons I had also replaced the front Altenberger Synchron caliper with a generic centerpull caliper and hanger. My winnings for 1st place in a youth category bought me a Suntour V rear derailer, unexpectedly necessitating a smaller freewheel. Not sure today, but I may(???) have actually raced in those boots. The (circuit?) race was mass-start, but our race bypassed the added laps around IBM's T.J. Watson research facility that the senior riders had to complete. So my race was done in under an hour and I was the first one in sight of the finish. The crowd at the start/finish had been waiting patiently so made me feel like I was the overall leader. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...66fa485c54.jpg |
^^ Good stuff, @dddd :)
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Originally Posted by northbend
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I had to get a one day racing license to ride in the High Cascade 100 MTB race. I had no illusions of actually racing but I did want to ride the 100 mile course which was over 80% single track around Mt. Bachelor in Oregon seeing it as a great challenge. I never was more than a casual mountain biker (who used it to ride with my son when he was boy) when I did this at age 55.
I prepared for the race that spring and summer riding with 2 experienced buddies who had also joined up and was happy to be able to finish the course in 14 hours on what was easily the oldest bike on the course that day (Yo Eddy 26" hardtail). Man that was hard but also one of the most beautiful days I've ever had on a bike. I was so tired by the late afternoon that I began to hallucinate. All that exhaustion went away when I finally hit pavement and time trialed the last few miles to the finish line on pavement. I realized then just how mentally taxing all that single track riding had been. I haven't been on a MTB much since then but boy, what a great memory. I have ridden the Echo Red 2 Red mountain bike race (60 miles of mostly single track in Echo, Oregon) twice. Both times I was so sore afterward, every muscle in my body fatigued, that I stayed an extra day to recover enough to be able to drive home. I can’t imagine doing 100 miles of mountain biking. |
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