Remembering Jay Moglia's First Race
So I was checking out Jay Moglia's blog the other day. http://rawtalent.lostriverbarn.com/I like it.
It got me to thinking about his first race so I wrote up a post about our trip.
It was in Wilkes Barre, PA. We drove up the night before in my 1976 BMW 2002. Black. Roof Racks. Spent the night in some motel. Nasty four corner crit course with a one lane road between turns 2 and 3. Rectangle. Slight rise between turn four and the finish line. Turn two had a rough surface in addition to being narrow and some guy was whining/yelling at me for racing in the turns. I did the 3s while Jay did 4s or citizen or whatever they had then don't remember but I remember Jay spent the whole race about 15 meters off the back. He was on the Behemoth (Cannondale touring bike) with the Girvin flexstem.
We were both working for Pro courier at the time. Their fleet of couriers was four. Me (three days a week), Jay, Andre (he also rolled in a white Chevette with his girl sometimes) and a guy named James, who later started his own courier business, the James Express (which consisted of him only). James rolled on a hybrid and while I'm sure he could get going pretty fast, I think we probably snickered a bit at the name. Us going racing left them shorthanded. So John the dispatcher came downtown and covered for us, doing like 57 runs or something.
Used to see James on the street for years but he finally disappeared for good around 2003. Also kept in touch with John for a longish time, he went into the trucking business. He did some long haul trucking and dispatching for a company down in Springfield, bought a house around Lorton with his 2nd wife. Finally lost touch with him around 2001. Andre was a shady haven't seen him in 15 years.
Good times.
posted by Mark @ 6:53 AM
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