Welcome to Boswell's Vault. On July 21, 2002, I found a box of floppy disks while cleaning the basement. Most of them were 5.25" disks; I will figure out a way to get the data off them in the near future. However, two of them were 3.5" disks onto which I had transferred some of the files from the 5.25" floppies back in '94. These two disks contain several columns from "Bicycles Today" as well as some industry and personal correspondence. I will be placing them up here as time allows, one or two at a time.
The background to these files: Most of this stuff was written in 1991 and 1992 while I was attending Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. At the time, I had recently returned to racing following a surgery in 1990 to remove the titanium femur bar from my right leg. I was a mid-pack 19 Expert, totally bemused by all the attention (and, in some cases, hatred) my new column seemed to be gettting me. I mean, come on, nobody reads the NBL paper, right????
| First GO! columns | Written for GO! magazine but never published |
| One Racer's Perspective #5 | A breakout column about lamer 17 Experts and fat men named Dallas |
| One Racer's Perspective #17 | Drive-by shootings, frame geometry, I come up with the idea to have Waterford build BMX bikes, and a terrible misunderstanding by a young reader. |
| Letter to Jill Bable #3 | Correspondence with Bicycles Today's editor prior to the first publication of my column. |
| One Racer's Perspective #7 | Squid waits for the UPS truck. |
| One Racer's Perspective #10 | Squid bails out. |
| One Racer's Perspective #12 | Partially Competitive Dudes. |
| US Open Coverage, 1991 | You call this a race report? You didn't even mention who won 17X!. |