I was there, three of us drove up, stayed at a youth hostel at a Unitarian church. One kid staying there brought a Harry Quinn, crashed it and took a lot of skin off himself riding down the side of the mountain (Mont Royale) course the evening before the event. Someone else had a Celeste Bianchi, the first I had seen in person. The Eastern Europeans had ALAN aluminum frames and won a lot of medals on them. Thevenet's bike had the first Simplex Retrofrictions I had ever seen. Saw my first Teledyne frames and Cinelli "death pedals' in person. Gimondi wasn't there, having crashed in the Giro. Ocana started, but dropped out early, exhausted. Merckx outsprinted Poulidor in a huge gear on the finishing straight on the final lap. Ah! The memories of youth!
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Houston, TX
> In a message dated 11/16/2003 12:14:02 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> Philcycles@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 11/15/03 8:57:15 PM, A Bikie writes:
>
> >I believe the next race I saw was at the worlds in Canada in 1974 (maybe
> >at the olympics in '76, but I'm not sure)
>
> I was at the 74 Worlds as well. It was awesome.
> Phil Brown
> Thanks Phil. It was our first such event. We drove all night up and back
the
> next day in a Vega with 4 people and 2 bikes.
> Merckx, Thevenet, Poulidor, ansd Gregor Brsaun in the amateur
> Larry Black