Bike Throw
December 4th, 2007 |Homme, Rookie and their team are really doing some great work on their site.
Over the weekend they posted a part one history of the Minneapolis Bicycle Racing Club, otherwise known as the Flanders Racing Team. Really great stuff. I hope that they will continue this project with actual interviews of the founders of the team and expand this series to cover other long time Minnesota teams such as the Gopher Wheelmen, SPBRC, Loon State, Birchwood and SpeedFix Racing.
Bike Throw is rapidly becoming an invaluable source for local cycling lore and legend. Great work gents.
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Thanks.
I can’t wait to interview you about the three teams you have started. The sky is the limit!
Loon State, GIS(Birchwood), BT, Urthel, ??
Cat 6 gets no love. Boo Hoo!
i’m pretty sure btdc can’t discuss speedstick racing anymore, at the insistence of speedstick.
but, look for lots of great write ups in the future on all of the other local teams, races, and culture we have supporting bike racing here in MN!
yea, i wanna be a fly on the wall when they track down chuck strauch and interview him..
SR: Hi chuck I’m tim Hayes also known as Super Rookie
CS: who?
SR: you can call me tim
CS: i’ll call you whatever the fuck I want
SR: ok then.. so can you give us all..
CS: Wait who the fuck are you?
SR: I’m….
CS: I got the name the first time.. but WHO are you?
seroiously, pod cast that conversation.. it’ll bring me back. if you want a good interview, interview stan flanders. he’s the easiest to get a hold of.
I bet I could interview Chuck Strauch.
i like it ray.. bikethrow’s man in the field..
It looked like the same news letter that I recieved about 10 years ago written by Jimmer, was it?
It even had 2 parts, very interesting.
“when Jim Flanders handed me exactly what I was looking for, “History of the MBRC” which was written for a club newsletter a few years back. ”
http://www.bikethrow.com/i/2007/12/02/the-flanders -archive-part-one/