He participated in the "Tour de Big Island," a stage race in Hawaii, and placed 2nd in the overall classification of his category!! Check out the results.
Tony Lang in action
Incidentally, while at the race he bumped into Tony Lang. Tony Lang is one of the founders of UCVC and creator of the UCVC logo, back in 1989. Tony won the overall classification of the 1/2/3 category at the same race!!Here's an interview with Tony, where he briefly mentions his initiation to competitive cycling, while at the UofC. I've tried to find his e-mail address to ask him to write a summary about the origins of UCVC, but his contact info proves damn hard to find (maybe it's because he works for the FBI). Hopefully he'll read this and will contact me...
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Also active in founding UCVC is Ed DesJardine, who received his Ph.D. from UC. Let me know if you want to reach him. He's in the Bay Area now.
- Ken G Kabira (AB '85)
Sure, Ken. I don't know who Ed is or when he was at UCVC, but I'm trying to reconstruct the entire history of UCVC, starting with the early days in 1989. Send me an e-mail:
francisco.torralba@gmail.com
Fellow UCVCers: What a big surprise when I saw Maui's Mark Kadowaki wearing a UCVC jersey on the Big Island in May 2008. I haven't been back to Chicago in many years. From my recollection, we created the team back in 1987/1988 with two other MBA and two medical students. I can't remember their names but the MBA students attended college at George Washington University and Yale. We worked on the design of the UCVC logo which hasn't changed.
I still have two of our original jerseys which were all white with maroon letters. We were sponsored by a shop called TURIN in Evanston -I used to race on their junior team. On eof my training buddies was Ken Ono who now is a professor of Mathematics at penn State. Tony Lang, Honolulu, Hawaii
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