Joel Dinda

Joel Dinda club

Posted: 17 Jun 2005


Taken: 01 Apr 1978

0 favorites     0 comments    191 visits

Location

Lat, Lng:  
Lat, Lng:  
You can copy the above to your favourite mapping app.
Address:  unknown

 View on map

See also...


Keywords

racing
skip obermeyer
spring valley park
kalamazoo bicycle club
zoom110
michiganparks
joeldinda
kalamazoo
kbc
promotion
bike
bicycle
bw
frankie andreu


Authorizations, license

Visible by: Everyone
Attribution + non Commercial + share Alike

191 visits


Starting Line

Starting Line
Referee Skip Obermeyer prepares the USCF Midgets (looks like three of 'em) for the start of a race on a rainy day in April of 1978. (Or perhaps 1979.)

I joined KBC in September of 1973, and attended my first club meeting a few days later. That meeting was dominated by a proposal from T.J. (Jeff) Smith that the club join the Amateur Bicycle League of America (ABLA--later the United States Cycling Federation) and begin promoting races. The issue was not decided at that meeting, but in the spring of 1975 the club hosted an early-season racing series at Kalamazoo's Spring Valley Park. The series would continue for several years; for most of those years I was the race promoter. Our role on the Michigan USCF schedule was to provide early-season racing opportunities for the state's racers; our objective in Kalamazoo was, of course, to introduce the sport to the community. It was fun, and the riders seemed to enjoy the event, but staging four early-season races can be pretty hard on your volunteers.


My notes say the rider in the middle is a very young Frankie Andreu, who'd go on to bigger races as a member of Lance Armstrong's Posties. Spring Valley Park, Kalamazoo.

Camera: Minolta Zoom 110 SLR

Comments

Sign-in to write a comment.