Well, I don't have any mementos of Rebecca, except maybe the poster of her on her Benotto bike and 7-11 jersey and white Duegis, but I have a lot of memories. We were both on the Velocipede team the summer she started racing, 1977. She rode in the track nationals that year, a month after the first time she rode the track (on a borrowed Davidson track bike, by the way), and won her age category. She was just 14, and living back and forth between her divorced parents. She was just out of 8th grade, and heading to the University of Washington in the fall. Yes, she skipped high school entirely. I kept her bikes running, and picked her up at one parent or another's house and took her to the races. She was sweet, and naive, and determined. Smart as a whip, but not a lick of common sense. Guess that had to come with more maturity. We both switched to Rainbow Cycling club in 1980, when Kolin and De la Rosa moved to town and started it, along with Northwest Cycle, where I we nt to work. Through their many connections, they were able to get her sponsorship from Schwinn, who made her several nice light bikes. Mike hammered at her relentlessly, seeing the potential in her, and saw her through a couple more nationals until she got tapped by Eddie Borysewicz for the national team. We followed her along in a great career, culminating in 16 US Championships and 6 World Championships. I last saw her a few years ago at a Marymoor Velodrome dinner, kid in tow, a mature young lady. Following along in mom's footsteps, already divorced. She had been married for a short time to Mark Whitehead, a hotheaded young racer himself. She had attained a PhD from the UW and was working as a biologist.
Message: 12 ate: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:49:26 -0800 (PST) rom: Joe Starck <josephbstarck@yahoo.com> ubject: [CR] Rebecca Twigg memento for sale: o: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org essage-ID: <245219.41597.qm@web34302.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ontent-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Laddies, gladdies, baddies, caddies, and daddies -- who've I left out? -- not he Australian framebuilder, who fav's the red as much or more as I do, ergo, I've had me a half bottle o' cabernet see, just right nowso -- a demi or a semi onthly occurrance? I forget -- and I also happened to be a-diggin' amongst me ersonals see, and lo and behold, as I held it in my hand, the first thought hat entered my mind was, that one o' youse bloody bike aces would shirley fancy he pleasure of proclaiming, in yer best docent demeanor, "This here is a letter ritten to Joe Starck, from Rebecca Twigg." It's got flowery borders, and if I knew my stationary from my Aunt who'd be my ncle if she had balls, I'd cough up some accurate descriptive details of this etter's paper, but I'll leave that to Ole Shiffer, cuz I happens to know he nows his crocus from his sharmin better than I do. Dated "May 26, 1993," this letter is. Yours for $50. $50.01 if you are Ernst. Joe Starck adison, Wisconsin USA Joe asks the Chief a legal Q: ttp://wisconsinreflections.wisc.edu/guests/show/28
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