RE: [CR]Vintage USA bike races...DOB according to the 'offical We bsites'

Mark G wrote (snipped):
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> TOUR OF SOMERVILLE HISTORY
> http://www.tourofsomerville.org/history.html
> **************
> MANHATTAN BEACH GRAN PRIX
> http://www.mbgp.com/mbgp.htm
> ***************
> LONGSJO
> http://www.longsjo.com/artlongsjo.html
> ***************
> NEVADA CITY
> http://www.nevadacityclassic.com/p_races.html

Although mention must go to the Redmond Derby, which though not a "major" bike race, has run continuously since 1939, making it the oldest bike race in America. For much of its history it was not ABLA sanctioned, and was probably won at least a few times by a kid on a paperboy bike with fenders, so I don't mind if people call Somerville the oldest "real" bike race in America. http://www.ci.redmond.wa.us/recreationarts/derbydays/criterium.asp

Mark Bulgier
Seattle, Wa
USA