[CR]Web Pics. of U.S. Cycling Hero, George Mount

Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 02:50:08 -0500
From: "Stratton O. Hammon II" <strattonh@insightbb.com>
To: "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
x-mac-creator="4D4F5353"
Subject: [CR]Web Pics. of U.S. Cycling Hero, George Mount

Hey all,

Sorry. Not much of a pic; but here's George Mount in the '76 Olympics. From the M. Steel Bicycles of England web page. (Scoll down to the black and white .jpg): http://www.msteelcycles.co.uk/about.htm

George's wedding picture with his wife and Albert Eisentraut and a multi colored E-Traut tandem: http://www.eisentraut.com/george.htm

Once again, here's George's Guerciotti built, Cyle Art restored, burnt orange, Velo Sports (Snorts) Olympic racing bicycle. http://www.cyclart.com/photos/Recent%20work/SmilingGeorge/

Couldn't find anything else on line. Stratton Hammon Louisville, Kentucky, USA

on 1/12/03 8:27 PM, Roy H. Drinkwater wrote:
> From 'The Bicycle Racing Book" by William Sanders, 1979.
> Page one, Chapter one:
> George Mount, Berkeley, California, was on his way to
> becoming the first American to crack the top ten in Olympic road
> cycling. Top ten? Nobody could remember when the United States had
> a man in the first fifty. All over the United States bikies stared
> at their TV screens in gibbering disbelief.