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Tomorrow is May Day, the real Labor Day, a celebration of the people who died to get you an 8-hour work day and of the Haymarket Massacre. All that and its a celebration of spring, too.
And of course, bicycles.
Saturday marks the opening day of the 2005 racing season at the recently revamped Kissena velodrome in Queens, NY.
As faithful readers will remember I am suing the time-space continuum, but alas it (unmindful of the reality that it is a theory, not a fact) is still keeping me from being at the track to cheer on the surly, unkempt messengers (Team Puma) who are hell-bent on using their NYC street skills to take down the Lycra boys.
Read more about the team in this quite well-designed online version of Fixed Magazine.
Fixed's editor Bucky Turco will be there, along with 1986 Olympic cycling medalist Nelson Vails, a messenger from Harlem who won a silver medal in the Los Angeles Olympics.
Bucky sez:
These champion races and Fixed magazine are going to continue spreading the word about this sub culture sport and its devotees, blue collar riders who have a shot at going from bike messengering to the Olympics, like Nelson did.
The velodrome, originally showcased in the '64 World's Fair, was just renovated and sounds great. Its sounds like a fabulous place for an old-old-school Six Day race, that Bucky has been muttering about.
Read more about it and find more photos like the one I stole here at About.com's Queen's entry on tomorrow's race. While you're there, tell the page editor John Roleke hello. He might not remember me, but back in the e-day, we both slaved away for the Man who serves the Man.
Posted by Ryan Singel at April 29, 2005 02:47 PM
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