Word: bikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ralphie is ready (he's my front half). I've just pinned the road map on his back. I shout directions and encouragement as we go. The bike is a sturdy Schwinn. We're ready. Just one more limbering up. My, that feels good...
...Written by the back half of a tandem in last year's Harvard-Wellesley Bike Race...
...praised be. Haven't seen any of the other racers. Passed a few check points (they don't trust us) and seems they're not far ahead. Funny about those check points. Seems a few years ago some guy peddled for half a mile, then dropped back, dragged the bike into a drove to half a mile from the finish point, dragged bike out, finished race twelfth. Can't figure where he missed. His driver must have missed a turn...
That reminds me, we must turn soon. My legs are going fast. What's that Ralph? A big hill? We'll never make it. I am peddling as hard as I can, Ralph. Bike is slowing down, not moving at all. We walk...
...imagine how that John Hart used to do it. Won three years running on a balloon tired bike. Senior year he won the bike race and then rowed a scull four miles in record time later in the afternoon. Just staggering...