John "Pop" Brennan

John "Pop" Brennan grew up in Newark, NJ at the height of cycling popularity in the United States. He started racing in 1904 winning the Diocesan Union Championship. He turned Pro after winning an amateur 6-day race in Atlantic City, NJ. He retired after a short pro career and opened a bike shop where he made custom handlebars and wheels for some of the cycling greats like Frank Kramer and Alf Goullet. He set up his portable bike shop at many of the tracks that hosted six day races, including Madison Square Garden, the Chicago Coliseum and others in North America and Europe. His shop became a repository for scrapbooks, photos and oral and written history of the golden age of American cycling. His history is now a part of the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame.

Greg LeMond

Greg LeMond - Amateur - 1976- Started racing at age 14. Won first 11 races entered. 1977- Won 27 of 47 races including 1st National Junior Road Championship, 1st overall, US Junior World's Trials. In 1978 - Won 20 of 60 races. In 1979 1st World's Junior Road Championship & 1st US Nat. Junior Road Championships. 1980 - 1st Overall, Circuit de la Sarthe; Stage win, 1st Lima Road race. 2nd Wildwood Criterium, NJ. and signed a pro contract with Team Renault-Elf. In 1982 - 2nd in World's Road Championships. 1983 - Wins World's Championship in Zurich and wins Super Prestige Pernod Trophy for Best Cyclist of the Year. Was the first American to win Tour de France 3 times in 1986-1989 and 1990. 1989 - Wins World Championship for 2nd time. named Sports Illustrated & Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year. 1991 awarded the Jesse Owens International Trophy as Athlete of the Year. In 1992 - Wins Tour of DuPont America's premier cycling event. 1994-Retirees from competition due to rare disease. He resides in Medina, MN.

Norman Hill

Norman Hill rode as an amateur from 1920 to 1923. Turned Pro in 1924 and was three times All Around Bicycle Champion of the US in 1933, 1935 and 1936. He retired from competitive cycling in 1936 after a bad spill in a Buffalo, NY 6-day race. He worked as a Field Representative for the Cycle Trades of America in 1939 and 1940. Served as an Official and Chief Referee at 6-day races in the 1940s and 1950s. He was instrumental in obtaining bike paths and organizing bike trains for tourist rides. He served as a technical director for the show "American Jubilees" at the NY Worlds Fair. He lives in Elk Grove, IL.

Leonard Harvey Nitz

Leonard Harvey Nitz is regarded as one of the great track riders of the modern era. Twenty National Championship titles in various track disciplines including an Olympic Silver medal in the Team Pursuit and a Bronze medal in the Individual Pursuit at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. He has posted victories in the Pan Am Games and World Championships over his fifteen year career. He was on four Olympic Teams participating in 1976, 1980, 1984 and 1988. Nitz lives in Citrus Hills, CA.

Eddie Borysewicz

Born in Poland, "Eddie B" Borysewicz was awarded the "Super Masters of Sports" title, the country's highest award given to athletes. He was the first national Coaching Director of the United States Cycling Federation (USCF) and is considered the architect of the national coaching program. He served as coach of the 1984 Olympic Team that competed successfully in Los Angeles, winning nine medals. In prior Olympic Games, United States riders had not stood on an Olympic podium since 1912. "Eddie B" lives in Ramona, CA.

Marcus Hurley

Marcus Hurley won the National Amateur Cycling Championship at the age of 17, a title he retained for the next three years. He won five gold medals in the St. Louis Olympic Games in 1904. (St. Louis Olympic were recognized by the IOC due to lack of foreign competition. ) He competed in London that same year defeating the defending World Sprints Champion, AL Reed for the title. He was the last American to rein as the Amateur World Sprint Champion until 1994.