Bicycle Races Are Coming Your Way

May 7th, 2007 by owenam

Remember that movie Breaking Away? The one I keep asking if you’ve seen, with the quarry and the Dennis Quaid and the Little 500 bike race at IU? Well, it turns out that the Little 500 was a real race, is a real race, and has been a real race since 1951. Why in the world didn’t I ever look this up before?

Not the bikes I would chose for a 50-mile race: freewheeling singlespeeds, ashtabula cranks, and no brakes.

ESPN’s coverage of this year’s Little 500.

Lots of pictures of this year’s Little 500.

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