Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: kalamazoogazette

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.

John Busack--my predecessor as KBC's president--leads the Class A pack at Spring Valley Park in April of 1975. This was the very first race promoted by the Kalamazoo Bicycle Club, and nearly the last KBC event John participated in before graduating from Western and moving away from Kalamazoo. I think the taller guy behind John is J. Brian Chappell of the Battle Creek Bicycle Club, but don't hold me to that. Kalamazoo Gazette photograph by P. N. Todd. I've severely cropped Paul's original photo, largely because of damage to the print.