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From Randy Riddell, Hanszen '66
I rode for Hanszen '63, '64, & '65. We wore leather helmets back then. In your history, you should add Ron Keating's speeding ticket. HPD radared him on Main Street at 50 mph +. Might have been in '62 or '63. You should also add the UofH Challenge Race in '64 or '65. They borrowed Rice bikes to practice and compete with; one was my steel-frame Schwinn. Their "team" was all football jocks. Ours was all weenies. They jeered at us on race day and called us wimps. That was before the start. The course was around the esplanade on the main entry drive, so the corners were reeeaalll tight. Their bunch looked like circus bears on bikes. Some of their athletes failed to keep the inside pedal up on the turns. Such a shame. Our bunch won. I don't think they asked us back. When we ran the Inner Loop course, the 90-degree washrack turn was quite a challenge -- especially when unenlightened car owners washed their buckets of bolts on race day morning and left the downward-sloping concrete street wet. The Student Center corner was also a 90-degree wonder. Coming first after the line-abreast start, it required quick maneuvering to avoid being squoze to the outside at speed. The timid stopped pedaling at the apex; the trained had the cadence and gearing timed to set the inside pedal up at the apex and never missed a stroke.