Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: racing

Pre-race activities at the 1975 Spring Valley Road Series, hosted by the Kalamazoo Bicycle Club at Kalamazoo's Spring Valley Park (makes sense, no?). Jeff Smith organized the race; Skip Obermyer served as chief referee. This gorgeous Kalamazoo Gazette photograph was taken by Paul Todd. Unfortunately, it spent part of its life pasted to posterboard for a KBC display.

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

1978 Madision National Championships, Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Here basically to point you to my brother's pictures from this event. This gorgeous photograph's by my brother, Kalamazoo Richard . (I cleaned it up a bit. The original is here .) And he has more Madison Racing pix here . I imagine he took this with his OM-1.

Annie Obermeyer of the Rapid Wheelmen. Spring Valley Road Series, hosted by the Kalamazoo Bicycle Club, 1978. Camera: Minolta Zoom 100