7-Eleven team history
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Originally Posted by EventServices
Two more from the women's team: Kathy Riggert and Muriel Sharp.
Muriel Sharp. Where is she now?
Muriel Sharp. Where is she now?
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Laggard - you're just trying to make sure we don't get bored during the winter, right?
Nice avatar, by the way.
Nice avatar, by the way.
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Originally Posted by Ceya
You are correct, I think he got there right before the transition from & Eleven to Motorola.
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Wrong. 7-Eleven became Motorola between the 1990-1991 seasons. Sciandri was still with Carrera through to the end of 91.
He signed with Motorola for the 1992 season.
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After she retired from the 7-Eleven women's team, Cindy Olivarri had been speaking to teenagers about the dangers of drug abuse in sports. Bicycle Guide had it as a cover story, probably in the early to mid 90's.
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He must have raced for 7-11 before Carrera then. I know that he beat a bunch of the 7-11 guys at the criterium in Brentwood, California. He was racing by himself or on a local team and really turned some heads. It was a bigmoney race, but there weren't any Euro teams there. I could be wrong. The race was part of a series of $10,000 criteriums that used to happen in the states.
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Max Sciandri
Born: 15 February 1967, Derby, England
Major Placings and Awards
Professional: Road
1989: Team- Titabonifica, Giro di Romagna, Vuelta a Espana Stage
1990: Team- Carrera, Tour of Aragon 5 Stages, Giro di Romagna, GP Pino Cerami, 154th Tour de France
1991: Team- Carrera, Giro d'Italia Stage, Three Days of De Panne Stage
1992: Team- Motorola, Giro d'Italia Stage, 1st Kelloggs Tour of Britain + 1 Stage, Tour du Romandie Stage
1993: Team- Motorola,1st Tour du Luxembourg + 2 Stages, Giro del Veneto, GP Fourmies, Coppa Placci, Settimana Siciliana Stage, 71st Tour de France + 3rd Points
1994: Team- MG-Bianchi, Giro d'Italia Stage, Giro del Trentino Stage, Tour of the Mediterranean Stage, 3rd Giro del Veneto, 47th Tour de France + 3rd Points
1995: Team- MG-Technogym, 1st Leeds International Classic, 1st GP Fourmies, Tour de France Stage, Three Days of De Panne Stage, Tour of the Mediterranean Stage, Tirreno-Adriatico Stage
1996: Team- Motorola, Paris-Nice Stage, 3rd Olympic Road Race Championship
1997: Team- La Francaise des Jeux, 67th Tour de France
1998: Team- La Francaise des Jeux, Dauphine Libere 2 Stages
1999: Team- La Francaise des Jeux,
Ok your right .. here is a cookie! Mistakes happen!
S/F,
CEYA!
Born: 15 February 1967, Derby, England
Major Placings and Awards
Professional: Road
1989: Team- Titabonifica, Giro di Romagna, Vuelta a Espana Stage
1990: Team- Carrera, Tour of Aragon 5 Stages, Giro di Romagna, GP Pino Cerami, 154th Tour de France
1991: Team- Carrera, Giro d'Italia Stage, Three Days of De Panne Stage
1992: Team- Motorola, Giro d'Italia Stage, 1st Kelloggs Tour of Britain + 1 Stage, Tour du Romandie Stage
1993: Team- Motorola,1st Tour du Luxembourg + 2 Stages, Giro del Veneto, GP Fourmies, Coppa Placci, Settimana Siciliana Stage, 71st Tour de France + 3rd Points
1994: Team- MG-Bianchi, Giro d'Italia Stage, Giro del Trentino Stage, Tour of the Mediterranean Stage, 3rd Giro del Veneto, 47th Tour de France + 3rd Points
1995: Team- MG-Technogym, 1st Leeds International Classic, 1st GP Fourmies, Tour de France Stage, Three Days of De Panne Stage, Tour of the Mediterranean Stage, Tirreno-Adriatico Stage
1996: Team- Motorola, Paris-Nice Stage, 3rd Olympic Road Race Championship
1997: Team- La Francaise des Jeux, 67th Tour de France
1998: Team- La Francaise des Jeux, Dauphine Libere 2 Stages
1999: Team- La Francaise des Jeux,
Ok your right .. here is a cookie! Mistakes happen!
S/F,
CEYA!
Originally Posted by ed073
Wrong. 7-Eleven became Motorola between the 1990-1991 seasons. Sciandri was still with Carrera through to the end of 91.
He signed with Motorola for the 1992 season.
He signed with Motorola for the 1992 season.
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Inga Thompson lives on a ranch in Baker City Oregon near the Wallowa mountains, settled in. She sure came up fast when she picked up racing in 83 or 84. I have some professional video of the 84 and 85 Coors Classic, a lot of the folks mentioned are on them, including Chris Carmichael winning the Morgul-Bismark in 84, good stuff. 84 Alexi Grewal got thrown off the Coors for failing a drug test, almost missed the Olympics because of it.
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BTW does anyone remember the brand of bike 7-11 used in the 84 Coors team time trial?
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I think their bikes were made by Ben Serotta regardless of what the stickers on the downtube said. i.e. Huffy.
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You are right, can you imagine how painful it must have been for Serrotta to see that logo on his art? At the time they were pretty cool bikes, they were made for the USA olympic team, which is the reason for the Huffy ****, they bought the rights to supply the bikes for LA olympics.
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Originally Posted by Shifty
You are right, can you imagine how painful it must have been for Serrotta to see that logo on his art? At the time they were pretty cool bikes, they were made for the USA olympic team, which is the reason for the Huffy ****, they bought the rights to supply the bikes for LA olympics.
I suspect he was paid quite well for the effort...and it's still being talked about...
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Originally Posted by roadwarrior
He COULD have not done it...I mean it's not like Huffy was holding his family hostage demanding that Serotta build them bikes...
I suspect he was paid quite well for the effort...and it's still being talked about...
I suspect he was paid quite well for the effort...and it's still being talked about...
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By the time 7-11 went to the TdF, they were riding Eddie Merkx bicycles. I saw an old film from the TTT that year with almost the entire team crashing at once.
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Davis Phinney was with the 7-11 team and rode a Serotta-built frame when he became the first American to win a stage of the Tour de France in 1986.
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I have one of Tommy Matush's old 7-Eleven Eddy Merckx frames.
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Ah, the forgotten Slurpie: Tommy Matush. One of the most underrated riders in the U.S.
Nice guy. Rode with Saturn for a while, too.
Nice guy. Rode with Saturn for a while, too.
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Here's a picture of me in one of Alex's skinsuits given to me years ago.
It also brings to mind an old story of when I first meet Ron Haymond. He would come on down to Seattle to ride around Lake Washington with my roommate Mark Pringle. I would tag along and after a hot ride one day he opened a quart of ice cream and poured a couple of beers over it. We stood in shock, he looked as us wondering what the hell was wrong and said " beer floats, great eh ! "
It also brings to mind an old story of when I first meet Ron Haymond. He would come on down to Seattle to ride around Lake Washington with my roommate Mark Pringle. I would tag along and after a hot ride one day he opened a quart of ice cream and poured a couple of beers over it. We stood in shock, he looked as us wondering what the hell was wrong and said " beer floats, great eh ! "
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About the 7 Eleven time trial bikes, they first used the profile Huffy's in '87. Prior to that the team used Murray branded bikes and no profile bikes. The profile bikes were actually made by Huffy in a top secret facility known as the "skunk works" where they were hand produced by Glen Morton (I think that was his name). Serotta produced both the Murray bicycles as well as the Huffy bicycles from the period of 1983-1988. The bikes from 84-85 have the LA olympic logo on the headbadge and were solid red. The 86 bikes were a red white fade with a plain M on the headbadge. And we all know that Andy's bike in '88 was a Landshark.
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Originally Posted by EventServices
I think their bikes were made by Ben Serotta regardless of what the stickers on the downtube said. i.e. Huffy.
Correct.
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I'm lovin' this thread. I've been a fan of cycling since 86', and the 7 Eleven riders were the first of my heros alongside Sean Kelly in his KAS days. I was particularly a fan of Davis Phinney. It was a joy to watch the team evolve over the years into Motorola, then Postal, and now Discovery. It burns me when all of the new school cycling critics and cynics, the bandwagon jumpers who discovered cycling in 2003 when Lance was going for number 5 and just want to make a name for themselves by citing "expert" doping allegations, are oblivious to this long and great history of the team. 7 Eleven was a novelty back in its first days in the European peleton until they started to make waves with Andy Hampstien, and now the red and green machines great-grandchildren, the Discovery boys, are a force to be reckoned with.
Thanks for bringing back some great memories. Let the losers at L'equipe dig up their pointless drug scandels. I'm gonna do what a real cycling fan does; dig out the old issues of "Winning", dust 'em off, and remenisce over pictures of Jeff Pierce winning on the Champs Elysees, Hampstein on the Gavia in a blizzard, and Phinney showing us all what American cycling is all about.
Slurpees and "Huffys" forever!
Thanks for bringing back some great memories. Let the losers at L'equipe dig up their pointless drug scandels. I'm gonna do what a real cycling fan does; dig out the old issues of "Winning", dust 'em off, and remenisce over pictures of Jeff Pierce winning on the Champs Elysees, Hampstein on the Gavia in a blizzard, and Phinney showing us all what American cycling is all about.
Slurpees and "Huffys" forever!
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Originally Posted by jpearl
I'm gonna do what a real cycling fan does; dig out the old issues of "Winning", dust 'em off, and remenisce over pictures of Jeff Pierce winning on the Champs Elysees, Hampstein on the Gavia in a blizzard, and Phinney showing us all what American cycling is all about.
Slurpees and "Huffys" forever!
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