It can travel up to 45 miles per charge and has a lower height than its predecessors, making it ideal for shorter people. This bike can also easily handle up to 350 pounds of weight. There’s nothing like a global pandemic to reignite the country’s love of biking.
Redline Bicycles had been sponsoring the Gold Cup Series for the prior six racing seasons. Today the Gold Cup Series Championship or simply the Gold Cup, is the second most sought after title in the ABA. The ABA felt it was a deliberate action to siphon off racers, particularly the pros from their season-ending Grand National. The hiring by the Knott’s Berry promoter Thomas Henn of former NBA founder and President Ernie Alexander to run the race (he also designed the temporary track at Knott’s) didn’t help matters. Alexander had a reputation of deliberately scheduling NBA events against the events of other sanctioning bodies when he ran the NBA.
Redline/Gold Cup races are a series of regional championship events that are held mostly for the benefit of the amateur racer with a No.1 plate on the line for the overall winner of the age and classification. It originally was a one-off Jag like Championship race on November 27, 1981, in which Huffy Nel Lusso the competitors just had to come in the top 100 in their districts to compete. It became a six race qualifying series in 1982 held in conjunction with standard nationals. Like in its inaugural year, the Championships was held the day before the ABA Grand Nationals in Oklahoma as a pre race.
The pros wanted a bigger purse that would be spread out over eight places, instead of the top four at ABA Nationals. This would ensure anyone making nationals would get a share of the winnings. The claim was that while NBL, NBA, and independent promotional race purses went up over the years, the ABA purses remained relatively stagnant. ABA races only warranted brief comments and listings of race results.
Discussion of classic balloon-tire and middleweight bicycles built between 1933 and 1965. There was a rumor of one final act to survive conducted by the USBA. If true, perhaps they were thinking about the precedent of Walt Ehnart, the former President of the ABA and by then the Vice President of the USBA that they could have turned Huffy Nel Lusso Mennenga. However unlikely it would have been, nothing came of it. The first ABA Pro Spectacular, a critical success, was launched in Reno, Nevada, on January 4, 1985. The efficient event was generally liked by pros and more than enough pros participated to make it interesting, $10,000 purses for each race were offered.
A place to post your want-ads for items not related to bicycles. Whizzer, Roadmaster Motor Master, Smith Motor Wheel, Shaw or any other bikes with a motor on it, this is the place to discuss it. Discussion of vintage and antique bicycles made outside of the USA. This site is still free for everything including ability to post and discuss your bike. The National Age Group Five Challenge is a competition formed from the top five National Age group year end finishers of National races.
Discussion of Vintage and Antique track, road-racing, fixed gear and 6-Day bicycles. Schwinn Stingrays, Krates, and other brands of the hot-rod style bicycles built during the 1960’s and 1970’s. Instead it was the USBA that ended up being bought out by the ABA.
Legitimate complaints regarding such issues as high entry fees and subpar tracks that hosted nationals have been lodged to the ABA. Mennenga designed and built special tracks to run the nationals. In 1978, the National Bicycle Association had 50 tracks and 5,000 racers.