The title of this guide caught my eye as a result of I’ve been using bikes for slightly over 60 years in case you return to my first 20″ child’s bike. However Invoice Logan’s 60 years included a few years of performing properly at each highway and monitor racing, going again to the outdated days of biking within the US when everybody nonetheless wore leather-based helmets and had wool jerseys.
As a result of he went to the College of Indiana, he additionally participated within the “Little Indy” bike race made well-known within the film “Breaking Away”. There are plenty of good anecdotes in regards to the race itself in addition to background in regards to the movie. The guide has many good tales from Invoice’s personal life and racing experiences, in addition to these of his contemporaries. A few of these are well-known, like John Howard and Wayne Stetina, others much less so, however nonetheless proficient athletes.
I totally loved studying about this era, which predates me by just a few years.