Gene Diggs with his '65 Schwinn Paramount that he bought new and raced back in the day. (He's got a matching road Paramount as well) He's still turning out 2000 mi./ year on the Bloomer Park Velodrome. Go Gene Go!
Gene holding one of his medals from his racing days.
Mark Agree hanging out under his canopy, showing off some of his impressive collection. Larry Tesch (wearing baseball cap) and Jimmy Katynski (blue shirt) checking them out.
Tom Cox (red) and Jimmy Katynski still checking out Mark's bikes (Raleigh Pro in foreground belong's to Chuck ??, Marks' friend).
A restored '42 Urago road bike and a early 1900's Pelham track bike on display by Larry Tesch.
Larry with the Pelham.
Larry with the Urago.
Larry showing his display board giving the story of the Urago and it's owner, former Michigan great Esther Leipold, sister of Mike Walden's, who was a star in the 40's alongside Mike, Gene Porteusi and others.
Detail of the Urago's head tube.
Urago's seat tube.
Urago's rear derailer. All the parts are as Larry purchased the bike except for the front brake which was mismatched when he got it; he found another to match the rear.
BB area of the Urago.
Lovely recreated decals of the Urago.
Another view of the Urago's head tube.
Lovely re-chromed crank.
Detail of the display board by Larry Tesch, showing pics, some memorabilia and a letter from Esther's son giving a short biography of his mother's amazing career. She was the Female National Champion in 1940.
Tom Cox (rt) checking out a 60's vintage Cinelli track tandem with a couple other vintage bike fans.
Details of the Cinelli tandem.
Checking out the head tube of the Cinelli tandem from the '60s (possibly) owned by Russ St. John.
Russ St. John getting the saddle height set for a young rider.
Adam from Ann Arbor on his newer Cinelli pista.
Russ giving a ride to another young fan (the younger brother of the other boy).
Matt Church from Ann Arbor on his vintage Viner.
Up on the 45 deg. end banking; gotta love those shadows.
Some of the swap meet displays w/ the velodrome surrounding.
Another view of Mark's Torpado-rama display.
View of Jimmy's Paramount and Masi and my booth to the right with some of my vintage jerseys.
Some of my vintage jerseys on display; white long-sleeve and light tan jerseys were from my brother-in-law. I won the green jersey in Japan in a relatively short road race called the Kanabe Cup. The Schwinn jersey is a Young Original from my earliest days of racing, from the Island Schwinn racing team which I anchored for several years from the late '70s into the early '80s in the annual relay race around Mackinac Island.
Jimmy Katynski's '61 P13 Paramount.
Head detail of the P13 Paramount of Jimmy's.
Jimmy with his Paramount.
Rear dropouts of the P13.
Jimmy's Masi GC.
NOS tubular tire mounted on the Masi.
Rr. derailer of the Masi.
The guys from Boulder, Colorado (Keith Harper, Clark Sheean) checking out the Tour of California program that Peter Rich gave me last fall at the Cycling Hall of Fame banquet. Keith raced as a junior for 7-Eleven alongside Bob Roll and others in the late 80's and 4 seasons in Europe, some with Team Motorolla. He was racing his lovely Team 7-Eleven/ Huffy track bike from his junior days on Friday evening and crashed it destroying the fork and getting a good deal of track burn.
Mark Agree checking out the BB shell on the old Cinelli tandem while Russ (owner) holds it up for him.
One of Mark Agree's Torpado's in the Torpado-Rama.
Authentic 1954 TdF water bottle on Mark's '55 Torpado; very sweet.
Mark Agree and Russ St. Johns on the Cinelli tandem.
Vintage MSU Cycling Club jersey as donated to MSU Bikes by Lenny Provencher from the mid-70's.
Ready to get up on the boards.
Tom O'Rourke on the boards on his modern steed. He's long sold off all of his old vintage bikes and just recently returned to competitive bike racing.
Bruce Carlson, webmaster for the velodrome site and one of the main track volunteers.
Green guy (me) with Mark Agree and the Cinelli tandem.
Tom O'Rourke, 1952 Olympic cyclist, signing his autograph on the arms (and bikes) of some very young fans. Tom was one of the youngest Olympians to go to Helsinki that year at age 17.
Tom signing one of the young fan's bikes.
The throng of young fans posing with Gene Diggs, Jack Cook and Tom O'Rourke (l to r).
Tom checking out my early 80's 1st generation Scott DH bar.
Tom checking out the latest issue (#6) of COG magazine.
Jack Cook showing Mark Agree his '83 Basso pista. Jack was Mich. state champion back in the day (not sure on the year(s))
Great looking bike Jack!
There's some muscles in that hand.
Mark and Tim posing with the young fans who cheered very loudly for us when we did our flying 200m challenges. Thanks kids!
Mark taking some pics of my '80/81 Francesco Moser sporting some "new" TT carbon wheels from the early 80's on loan from brother Jeff.
Me and the Moser. For the road TT challenge I changed back over to the standard road wheels as it was mostly a hill climb course.
The Rack w/ a mix of vintage, retro-vintage and new track bikes.
Some of the early evening NAS-Track 3-day action at the velodrome. This was the first Madison event, a 60-lapper I believe.
One hand exchange (left) in the 60-lap Madison.
Maybe this little boy will remember the thrill of the Madison and return when he can fit the smaller track bikes? Jack Simes IV is immediately across from the boy on the track w/ the rear disc wheel.
Matt, Adam and Mark trying to keep up w/ the spectating as the Madison races circles round and round them.
The announcer pointing out the leader.
Bruce Carlson keeping track of the leaders w/ 2 fingers; pretty tricky stuff to keep a Madison sorted out!
TJ, local cycling legend, stopped by for the evening action. He'd already ridden a 100 km on the road earlier in the day. He averages 12,000 mi. + annually they say.
Gene Diggs helping to keep track of the leader while taking care of the lap counter.
Dale Hughes (right) also helping keep track of the Madison action. Dale is the benefactor of the Bloomer Park Velodrome and America's premier track designer. Bloomer Park Velodrome is based on the Atlanta Olympic track which Dale designed.
OK, the leader's over there folks.
Jack Simes IV's Parlee after he finished the 60-lap Madison.
The officials having a post-race meeting.
Christine Hughes interviewing Jack Simes and team-mate ERic Barlevav, both from Trexler Town, PA. Jack is a 4th generation Simes on the track. His great-grandpa and grandpa are both in the Cycling Hall of Fame (I'm pretty sure).
A lovely Canadian Monshee by Norco pista.
Lovely seat stay lugwork, eh?!
Check out those long tapered lugs!
Todd Schaefer and his Norco Monshee pista. Todd participated in the vintage TT challenge.
Larry Garstick with his 0-miles 1983 Colnago that he bought in Milan, Italy, brought home and then switched to triathalon racing and ended up never riding. It features the 50th Anniversary Campagnolo group. He purchased it for 1.6 mi. lira or about $1000 at the time.
Head tube detail of the '83 Colnago.
Yes, the Silca frame pump came with the bike.
