[CR]Herse Piste / also RAYSPORT

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Ken Wehrenberg" <wnwires@htc.net>
Subject: [CR]Herse Piste / also RAYSPORT
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:26:11 -0500


Brian, Marty and list:

Ray Florman was a kind of incredible guy whose son took over his store, A-1 Bicycles in St Louis. Ray was active with the USCF as well as the development of the youth for our sport, but as an out of stater attending Washington University in St Louis, I mainly knew him as the guy from A-1. There were a lot of Raysports around there in the '70s.

What I thought quite incredible was one time on my way into Wash U, I was stopped at an intersection and through it came a bike commuter-- it was obviously Ray who did not have a complete-with-hand-or-forearm on one side. I would have never thought he was still actively riding himself at his age.

Ken Wehrenberg, Hermann, MO now going out for a ride on a beautiful Missouri wine country day on roads from the Tour of Missouri