Brian, thank you very much for this information. I remember George and Suzy as a vital young people who had just had a baby. It's shocking to think that 30 some years have passed. I was in high school when I worked at Stoke's Spokes and I just turned 50 last month. How time flies...
Guy Taylor
Anaheim, CA USA
From: brianbaylis@juno.com <brianbaylis@juno.com> Subject: Re: [CR] Stoke's Spokes, Huntington Beach CA To: guy.taylor@sbcglobal.net Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 9:55 AM
Guy,
I knew George and Suzy. My former partner at Wizard Cycles, Mike Howard was really good friends with them. Mike mentioned to me in a recent conversatio n that both George and Suzy have passed away. I didn't know them well enough to know much of their personal life or offspring. Sorry to have to pass on the bad news.
Brian Baylis
La Mesa, CA
USA
Iʼm trying to connect with the roots of my bicycle interest and I wonder if the list may be able to help.
About 1975 I worked at a small Huntington Beach, CA bike shop named Stokeʼs Spokes. The owner of the store was George Stok es. I heard that after closing the store George became a team mechanic for a Bell helmet racing team. Has anyone heard of him or the shop?
Also, George and his wife Suzy had a son named Todd who I heard became a talented junior racer. Iʼve looked up the name and found a Todd Stokes who seems to be a bicycle racing writer in Ireland. Does anyone know if there is a connection?
Thank you,
Guy Taylor
Anaheim, CAÂ USA