Greetings---
If you have Eugene A. Sloane's The Complete Book of Bicycling you can see a picture of Jim (it's on page 329, editions may vary). The shot was originally from a track article I remember seeing many moons ago in Bicycling! magazine. Jim's in St. Louis gutting it out to come from all the way back from 12th place to finish second in a points race. Wish I'd had the chance to see him in person like Bill did, nevermind to actually ride on the same track as him!
Somebody please stop the hands of time; we're losing too many great ones, and each departing soul takes with him a thousand untold stories...
Peter Jourdain Whitewater, Wisconsin
--- InchPitch@aol.com wrote:
> Not about the equipment that we all love so much,
> but about one who rode it
> to glory. And certainly within the time line. Jim
> Rossi, 5 time U.S. National
> Champion, member of the '56 and '60 U.S. Olympic
> teams, gold medal winner at
> the '59 Pan Am games and silver medalist at the "63
> Pan Am games, and
> inductee to the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame passed
> away in September at age 69. I
> did some training laps around the Northbrook
> Velodrome "back in the day" 1963,
> and I still remember those long legs of his astride
> that big green Paramount
> track bike. Jim was a tall man 6' 2" or 3" but Dave
> Staub told me he was
> unique in that he rode Christophe "short" toe
> clips. Certain authors have cited
> Rossi's stranglehold on the National title as the
> reason the A. B. L. of A.
> switched away from the Omnium format to the
> international format of individual
> titles for individual events.
>
> Bill Curtis
> Costa Mesa, CA
>
>
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