After training and racing on his Peugeot PX-10 for over 30,000 miles in the 1980s...
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| Michael Gill with his bike the first time around in the '80s |
...Michael Gill upgraded to a Colnago, sold the Peugeot and moved on.
26 years later, he caught the old bike bug and went looking for a vintage ride to rekindle the joy he'd felt with his old Peugot. Well, it turns out that while looking at a couple of vintage bike frames listed on Craig's List, he found not just a similar bike, but the remains of his old bike which he recognized by the "black helvetica letters spelling out CLEVELAND" that he had added to the fork.
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| Gill, reunited with his bike (or parts of it) |
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There are some great details in
this NPR story.
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