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The World’s Fastest Bicycle Sprint By Erich von Neff There are those that say it was the fastest bicycle sprint that there ever was. Since no official time was taken this certainly can be questioned. And there is the tendency to believe that an earlier era had some of the “right stuff” that the present …
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Lunch Expresso by Erich von Neff Joe Lauracella said that deep within the forest near Skyline Ridge there lived a danseuse named Karin Yamakawa who was rumored to have pouty lips and perhaps much more. At the time (the late 1950s) beatnik artists of various persuasions lived in little enclaves in the Santa Cruz Mountains. …
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“The Myth Track”, an original story by Erich von Neff “It seems suspicious to me,” Reinholt Reinhardt said. Murphy Sabatino’s board track* has been shut down for a few years. There’s a six-day race at the Madison Square Garden in New York and the Gattos go back there and clean house. The New York …
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Note to Erich: I may be out of sequence using this story now. Am I? I hope not. Because the living room was turned a hospital room, all my stuff kept getting moved around, and there are so many papers to get back in order. Ugh. No fun. SECOND PLACE An Original Story by Erich …
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Ms. Morrall First. I’ve enjoyed your web site immensely and have dawdled away many hours there. I’ve particularly enjoyed the cycling articles of Steve Lubin and Erich von Neff, both contemporaries of mine, I spent many hours back in the 60’s cycling “over the hill” and often lunching at Pete’s Coffee Shop, or, was …
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[Author/Poet Erich von Neff is a San Francisco Longshoreman.] Les Six Jours au Vel D’Hiv Paris 1938 Par Erich Von Neff Table des Matieres Prologue Day One 1. Fat Henry 2. The Hundred Dollar Prime 3. The Sprint 4. Triumph 5. Yeah Babe 6. The Jam Is On 7. The Lap 8. At the Cabaret …
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An Ocean Shore Ride, 1952 As you pass Romano’s Restaurant*, going south, you will notice, on the spit, the remnants of a road which is now slowly sliding into the sea. But, as some of us, at least, will remember, it was not always this way. The Ocean Shore Railroad had rumbled along those curves., …
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The Unknown Blonde By Erich von Neff We had drunk San Miguel in Pete’s Cafe in Half Moon Bay* Joe Lauricella climbed in the Lancia Aurelia** and I on the passenger side “—- going straight back to San Francisco,” Joe said “Let’s put this car through its paces.” We climbed up to Skyline Ridge Road …
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Coast Highway Race, 1951 Story by Erich von Neff All of us, I’m sure, have, at one time or another, cursed or blessed the coastal wind. Constantly and incessantly it blows down the coast, though driving in a car it is no more than an annoyance. But jog or ride a bike along Highway One, …
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