Wayne Stetina leaves Shimano after 37 years, joins SRAM

[rwsaunders]

Originally Posted by saab2000

That is great stuff! Anyone here have personal experience with this event? Absent COVID, is it still being run?

My oldest son went to grad school at Indiana and the event is a blast. It’s tentatively scheduled for the weekend of 22-23 April 2022.

https://iusf.indiana.edu/little500/

[mistermo]

Originally Posted by witcombusa

Is it just me or don't these guy look more like rowers than cyclist? Most of them are stocky big dudes. Not a pencil armed peddler in the pack.

They would have snapped Dave Stoller in half!

It's a race that favors bigger riders. No hills, lotsa sprinting, short sets, very physical. In the day, I knew some very good smaller riders who couldn't hang and were intimidated "riding in the trees". Think sprinter/crit rider (Eric Young) vs grimpeur.

[pasadena]

Originally Posted by mistermo

It's a race that favors bigger riders. No hills, lotsa sprinting, short sets, very physical. In the day, I knew some very good smaller riders who couldn't hang and were intimidated "riding in the trees". Think sprinter/crit rider (Eric Young) vs grimpeur.

I have a podium trophy our team did well and I'm a smaller rider. 63kg
We had a mix of guys but only one guy was really beefed up 6' speedskater.

[Gianni Bianchi]

The grand daddy of gravel racing ^^

[redir]

Great pics keep 'em coming.

37 years is a long time.

[mistermo]

Originally Posted by Gianni Bianchi

The grand daddy of gravel racing ^^

Fat tires on drop bar bikes. What goes around....

[rwsaunders]

Originally Posted by rwsaunders

My oldest son went to grad school at Indiana and the event is a blast. It’s tentatively scheduled for the weekend of 22-23 April 2022.

https://iusf.indiana.edu/little500/

PS click on the link and there are links to films of past races going back a few years.

[witcombusa]

Slightly off topic but I never knew there was a women's little 500 too! 25 mile version.

Now back to Wayne talk...

[mistermo]

Originally Posted by witcombusa

Slightly off topic but I never knew there was a women's little 500 too! 25 mile version.

Now back to Wayne talk...

Yes, back to Wayne talk, but first, when I was at Indiana, the women had a cut-throat tricycle race, on an indoor, concrete surface, inside Assembly Hall (basketball stadium). They didn't have a Little 500 race. One year, first time ever, a male group entered and won the whole thing. Women cried foul. Consequently the tricycle race was canceled and the women's L5 race was born.

OK, now back to Wayne and the Stetinas.

[54ny77]

[mcteague]

Tim

[kiwisimon]

Originally Posted by Gianni Bianchi

Ummm... Shimano IS the dark side. lol

that was my reaction if forced obsolescence is dark.

[Zee]

Originally Posted by mistermo

It's a race that favors bigger riders. No hills, lotsa sprinting, short sets, very physical. In the day, I knew some very good smaller riders who couldn't hang and were intimidated "riding in the trees". Think sprinter/crit rider (Eric Young) vs grimpeur.

Small world.

I raced against Eric for 3 years in L5, and am the mechanic for the team in the FAR LEFT of your first photo in Teal/Black.

Have been to the race every year since 09 and will be back this Spring for both mens' and womens' events.

Weird to see Stetina move to SRAM, as mentioned earlier. They are really doing incredible things over there!

[witcombusa]

Originally Posted by Zee

Weird to see Stetina move to SRAM, as mentioned earlier. They are really doing incredible things over there!

Funny, I just went over to the SRAM website and didn't notice anything 'incredible' at all. I don't know how I've lasted this long without ever owning a single SRAM component.

Of course nothing 'incredeble' has come out of Campy and Shimano too for about two decades.

[charliedid]

Originally Posted by witcombusa

Funny, I just went over to the SRAM website and didn't notice anything 'incredible' at all. I don't know how I've lasted this long without ever owning a single SRAM component.

Of course nothing 'incredeble' has come out of Campy and Shimano too for about two decades.

Funny